[sims] Emerge Alternative

[matt40k]

I thought that was every businesses number one objective, to make money. Otherwise they'll be a charity or public sector.

 

Seems to be a fact people forget sometimes when they think a company can do something the LA offer for less money.

 

EDIT: What do you mean by open? You have to draw a line between supportablility and open. Personally, they've got a good line.

Edited September 10, 2012 by matt40k

[PhilNeal]

Whilst I can protest at your suggestion @matt40k you won't believe me!

 

The market for apps supports my view I think - why would developers allow Apple to take 30% of the app revenue if they could produce an HTML5 one (and hope it works on all devices) and sell it directly?

[matt40k]

Come on Phil, I'll give you the fact your pretty good at only backing stuff that may be useful to schools, like the new exams stuff, but come on, money is the main factor. I sat in one of your sales pitches about some power management software you guys were reselling and if we're being honest that would have been a nice feature of solus3. Will you add it to solus3 like hell you will.

 

We won't agree on the whole app vs html5. Your a good sales person and you know that means backing your product. We can both find positive and negatives to each side and unfortunately only time will tell which one is "right". Fortunately Capita would have bank rather a lot of money from the app before html5 wins.

 

You can of course prove me wrong and do a few "free" products/features

 

Edit: just to be clear, I mean throw extra resources at non-profiting areas, such as dbattach, I don't mean hassle the overworked devs about such features. They've got enough of a backlog already.

Edited September 10, 2012 by matt40k

[matt40k]

You also forget what that 30% covers - licensing, download servers, update management, ads, payment

[SYNACK]

You also forget what that 30% covers - licensing, download servers, update management, ads, payment

 

...competition suppressing law suites, development expenses to re-engineer the best apps into the phones themselves shafting the dev, all that censorship and hypocrisy does not come free you know

[matt40k]

Always the optimist