* Posts by ScepticTank

4 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jan 2010

Half of all app store revenue goes to just 25 developers

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Re: LazyBrush

And another sale.....of the free version but watch those iAd thousandths of a cent come trickling in. Game description needs a bit of work - maybe I'm thick (no maybe about that) but I couldn't work out what the game was from the text. It doesn't think m1nge is a word, but addictive!

Axe falls on Directgov as GOV.UK launches

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Early days

As one of those embittered old lags who ran one of the old sites seeking to simplify everything in one place I say ....congratulations! Gov.uk has continuously improved since the days of the Beta, and I'm sure there's much more to come.

It does rankle that GDS can't acknowledge the people behind the old sites and say thanks for your contribution. Yes the old way was expensive, but don't believe that any of that cash trickled its way down the chain to the grunts who did the editing and coding. Much of it went on military-grade security for servers that only published public domain content, and equal amounts on servicing the bureaucracy that scrutinises the work of an outsourced contract. But we did include our overheads in the published figures. Are GDS?

Both DG and BL had many staff that were above all passionate about doing the best thing for the user. Gov.uk is delivering what many of us saw was needed years ago, and benefits from a culture that allows things to happen quickly. We look on with admiration and a pang of jealousy perhaps.

Despite Android lead, iOS devs slurp scads more mazuma

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Some apps are worth the cash

FanBoi here - most of the music apps I use on iOS are awesome and well worth the relatively tiny amounts I paid for them compared to equivalent Mac and PC software.

I'm still waiting for Android to be able to offer the low latency interface that these apps rely on. Until it does - and it works on enough devices to make it worth a developer's while to develop for it - my money keeps heading towards the fruit.

You and what Android? The Google iPhone killer that isn't

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Big Brother

Voice recognition = more data for Google

The much-hyped voice recognition (OK - it's cool) involves server-side processing by the Mountain View crew. That's a lot of data that could be passing through their servers...interesting to see the Ts and Cs on how it will be used.