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I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

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Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

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Post by Tycho »

borism wrote: post #35
sabat wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

nobody said there was a stock market bubble That's what the word "bubble" refers to, though. If the OP didn't mean a stock market bubble, he should explain what he does mean. A "bubble" of investing? Why would it warrant the analogy of a bubble? What horrible things happen if and when VC investments don't pan out? What people are trying to call a bubble is actually just an increase in investment by VCs, sometimes goo…

That's what the word "bubble" refers to, though why? not at all. last spectacular bubble was in real estate - it was accompanied by stock market rise but not by any means stock market bubble.

Was the real estate itself part of the bubble? I thought there was lots of trading of mortgage-backed assets that went on the ridiculous assumption that house prices would continue to rise indefinitely, then when they stopped rising the derived (high-volume) trading was exposed as irresponsible. So the bubble would be in credit-default-swaps or whatever you call them, not in actual property.

Someone who knows what they're talking about explain please!

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

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Post by moxiemk1 »

kragen wrote: post #30
jpadvo wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I think democratizing technology is a really, really good thing. Sure, we have to suffer through things like Comic Sans abuse and crappy apps, but that is a minuscule price to pay for increasing the creative freedom of humanity. That's fundamentally why we build new tools -- to increase the freedom of people to impact the world. [Edit: Just read the article you linked. Losing 27 pounds by eating twinkies?…

App stores do not democratize technology. App stores limit access to technology to Officially Approved Developers who don't piss off the platform owner.

Democratizing technology isn't fundamentally about Freedom and Openness and Fairness.

It's about making technology useable by everyday people.

You can do that by making everyone an engineer, or by placing arbitrary limits that increase the likelihood of people using the thing, or any number of ways. Limiting access to technology can absolutely democratize it.

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

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Post by kreek »

acconrad wrote: post #22
JabavuAdams wrote: post #18

Incoherent drivel. I hope this bubble kills the content-free vanity blog post / spam. Seriously, just don't write this crap. It's no good.

Not only did you fail to read my disclaimer, but according to your profile you make iPhone games. I guess I cut to the core of you, Baxter.

This reply like the article had vaguely immature tone to it, but it was also the second time the author had me laughing today. I don't see it as any different than Lewis Black going off on politicians. As long as you're smart about it, and not just being crude for the sake of it, it works.

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

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Post by acconrad »

kreek wrote: post #43
acconrad wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only did you fail to read my disclaimer, but according to your profile you make iPhone games. I guess I cut to the core of you, Baxter.

This reply like the article had vaguely immature tone to it, but it was also the second time the author had me laughing today. I don't see it as any different than Lewis Black going off on politicians. As long as you're smart about it, and not just being crude for the sake of it, it works.

Bingo. Cmon people just laugh and move on.

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

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Post by acconrad »

peter78 wrote: post #40

Meh. Apple first tried to push developers to the web. It was because of the hacking community that apps got popular and they opened up the iPhone OS (now iOS). Mobile apps are great for small and quick functional tasks. It's not a great interface to do incredibly complicated actions unless they can be done at the press of a button, minimal typing or by a swipe. I agree there's a lot of crud out there but I'd like to…

I'm 25...Einstein didn't publish his theory of relativity until he was 26. Give me a year...but seriously, I'm trying. I may not be mother Teresa, but I volunteer at shelters and I've donated a fair amount to the acs and relay for life. And I know my blood was uses to save someone's life. Baby steps. Change one life at a time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but I'm pretty sure ifart was (zing)

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

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Post by wrs »

Tycho wrote: post #41
borism wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what the word "bubble" refers to, though why? not at all. last spectacular bubble was in real estate - it was accompanied by stock market rise but not by any means stock market bubble.

Was the real estate itself part of the bubble? I thought there was lots of trading of mortgage-backed assets that went on the ridiculous assumption that house prices would continue to rise indefinitely, then when they stopped rising the derived (high-volume) trading was exposed as irresponsible. So the bubble would be in credit-default-swaps or whatever you call them, not in actual property. Someone who knows what th…

Yes, the bubble was in real estate. "People believe the value of X will rise indefinitely" is pretty much the definition of "there's a bubble in X". A lot of dumb things, not just selling exotic derivatives, were done based on the assumption that house prices could not fall. For example, people used crazy leverage to buy houses, figuring its value had to go up. Now they are underwater on their zero-down adjustable mortgages.

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

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Post by peter78 »

acconrad wrote: post #45
peter78 wrote: post #40

Meh. Apple first tried to push developers to the web. It was because of the hacking community that apps got popular and they opened up the iPhone OS (now iOS). Mobile apps are great for small and quick functional tasks. It's not a great interface to do incredibly complicated actions unless they can be done at the press of a button, minimal typing or by a swipe. I agree there's a lot of crud out there but I'd like to…

I'm 25...Einstein didn't publish his theory of relativity until he was 26. Give me a year...but seriously, I'm trying. I may not be mother Teresa, but I volunteer at shelters and I've donated a fair amount to the acs and relay for life. And I know my blood was uses to save someone's life. Baby steps. Change one life at a time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but I'm pretty sure ifart was (zing)

At 25 Zuckerberg was a billionaire. ;P

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

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Post by biot »

kragen wrote: post #30
jpadvo wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I think democratizing technology is a really, really good thing. Sure, we have to suffer through things like Comic Sans abuse and crappy apps, but that is a minuscule price to pay for increasing the creative freedom of humanity. That's fundamentally why we build new tools -- to increase the freedom of people to impact the world. [Edit: Just read the article you linked. Losing 27 pounds by eating twinkies?…

App stores do not democratize technology. App stores limit access to technology to Officially Approved Developers who don't piss off the platform owner.

The word app doesn't only refer to something in an app store. The article mentions "I'm talking small, stupid applications that serve no purpose other than to take up space in some app store or some .com". threewords.me is such an app that takes up a domain.

"But last time I checked, companies started with one application, sold it, then made a few more" ... like 37signals and their apps.

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