Apple can afford to lower prices

After all, Apple has $150 billion in cash on hand. It is the most profitable technology company in the world. It can afford to lower prices.

Sure! Why, if Apple were a charitable organization run by volunteers, imagine how cheap the iPhone would be then!

Hey, Facebook made a pretty nice profit last quarter. What if maybe they showed fewer ads? Better yet, what’s Business Insider’s profit? Maybe you guys could write a little less link-baiting claptrap. That’d be good, as long as we’re all just giving away profits for no reason.

Macalope

#Pressgram image round up. Week 1.

Until I can work out the issues with my Pressgram account not posting content to this blog[1, I'll use this workaround to get my images published. The text associated with those images is stuck on Pressgram. There is no way to copy them out and I don't feel like retyping it all. Not all my images made it to Twitter so this is a subset of the 10 images I posted to Pressgram. Facebook is blocking the Pressgram servers for some bogus reason.

All these images were created and shared via the new #Pressgram app but uploaded manually to my blog via the Poster iOS app. The images are in the order in which they were posted to Pressgram.


  1. For me, the original promise of photo + filter + WordPress is yet to be realized. 

“Free” has a price

The Price of Free by Michael Jurewitz

There is no doubt that free can lead to huge user bases and massive adoption. In the face of venture capital or existing cash stores, the siren call of free often sounds like a low-risk bet on future profits. In practice, free is a costly mistake that businesses and small developers should avoid, and users should run away from like the plague.