Silent Birth??!?! WTF
So it seems that John Travolta and KElly Preston had a silent birth. Woo-tastic indeed.
From the wiki on Silent Birth. Yeah let’s have some woo!
Silent birth, sometimes known as quiet birth, is a birthing procedure advised by L. Ron Hubbard and advocated by Scientologists in which “everyone attending the birth should refrain from spoken words as much as possible” and where “… chatty doctors and nurses, shouts to ‘PUSH, PUSH’ and loud or laughing remarks to ‘encourage’ are avoided”.[1]
According to Scientology doctrine, this is because “any words spoken are recorded in the reactive mind and can have an aberrative effect on the mother and the child.” [1] There have been no attempts to prove this medically or scientifically.
Why the Galaxy S Phone still runs Android 2.1
It seems it’s about politics and money. Just reinforces my belief that Android has hurt the consumer for the most part.
With most manufacturers, such as HTC, Motorola, etc. This is fine and considered a maintenance upgrade. Samsung, however, considers it a feature update, and requires carriers to pay a per device update fee for each incremental Android update.
Thanks to @gruber for this via daringfireball.net. He seems to think it is about selling more phones. I think it’s about squeezing cash out of carriers because they can as well though.
This is Why iOS is the Platform to Develop for
Horace Dediu of Asymco has a quick article outlining the payout to developers and labels from apple on the respective stores. All the talk about Apple being evil to developers contradicts the reality. A lot of people forget tht the majority of developers are not in it for the politics, t hey are not in it to make a statement. They code to make a living to feed themselves and their family. Most also love what they do as well.
Although the music suppliers received in aggregate much more than developers, the iTunes store has been open much longer. When comparing sales acceleration, the App store is ramping faster having paid out $2 billion in 31 months vs. 34 months for the first $2 billion paid out for music.
The interesting tidbit is that the App Stores seem to be growing faster than the media store. There could be a number of reasons why. I suspect though it is mostly because media has so many outlets to get the same content for from physical media to other download sites. Apps though have a limited distribution method in the case of iOS there is only one way to go. As a result you lack the dilution you see for media.
This is both good and bad for the developer. It’s great because your audience is easier to reach since there is only one outlet. It’s bad because the market gets really crowded.Can Apple be a pita to deal with? Sure. But the rewards far outweigh the annoyance factor it seems.
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