Paid advertising is not possible when you make 70 cents per sale. It costs more to advertise a copy than you make from a sale.

A way around this is to increase your lifetime income per download, which is where IAP comes in, which is where candy crush etc show the way.

If Apple don't want the store to only be that, they've got some work to do.

Apple did it. They had better undo it if they don't want their iOS devices to be nothing but ad display machines or in app purchase tricks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IfOKeZ-MWI

If it was news to me too Id be as amazed by these observations as they seemed to be.

This place can be painfully self righteous, no-one is seriously suggesting the work they do isn't important etc etc.

Kids eh! :)

To me, the speech was fairly embarrassing. Its as though some rich people saw some poor people on a poor person safari. Now they come back to tell of what they saw, as if everyone in their audience would be just as amazed at such things as they were.

Perhaps for a stanford graduate audience that is true?

Theres suffering in the world!? :O

Thats what I was left with. No-one rational could disagree with their points, the validity of the foundations purpose, etc etc and all of that.

But the speech made me cringe a little.

Sorry can't play it, makes my eyes go funny. Can you turn that text blur off or down?

A few meanings I think are possible, I like the explanation that the observers were wrong to assume they knew where the target was ; It was after all his shot to take, he wasn't conforming to the expectation of the group.

Reminds me of "A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to".

Not good value for money!! AN APP!!! And on HN as well. Unbelievable

I don't know why they stuck with it!

C64s and amigas.. when computers were cool before microsoft ruined it! Now we've been saved by apple, hurah

If you're young you probably don't know what I mean.

No over analysis of this reply please, my eyes might not come down again if I keep doing it. :)

They go to the app store to get apps. They don't open a browser and google for a web page and expect it to operate like an app. Also you need to have an internet connection to even use an app, who wants that.

Technology improves but the drag comes from user adoption. You'll need to change behaviour.

Humans can be arrogant in their assumptions about animals.

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.” - Douglas Adams, hitchhikers

Is that what it actually does? If I have an iTunes url to my app can I imbed an argument to send to the app once it runs after being downloaded? I would have thought a standard requires implementation by apple for that to be the case.

Ive read the fb post, saw the f8 section and watched their video and I still don't know what it does. Maybe Im dim.

Is that desirable? A better debate surely entails more than one opinion. I also don't know what a 'jerk' is, someone that disagrees with the group think?

I just don't think its that big a problem. But thats just one opinion that might differ from the collective and therefore must have no merit? An odd place. Over engineering! To be expected I suppose.