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Sharecropping with the Apple iPhone: Joe Hewitt on the ‘middle-man’
"… ‘I’m pleased to note that a lot of people have realized that taking part in the iPhone (and other locked down mobile devices) ecosystem is sharecropping’: please do tell. what are the ‘other ways’? …"
Games
In the days prior to consoles, the Web the only way you could get games was by going to the store and buying them in a box. But some smart folks worked out a way to by-pass the stores and go direct. Id software teaming up with Apogee to avoid sharecropping their product on the shelves of computer stores.
Web
When the web came along it was difficult to set up a web server, web page or forum for most in the early days. Geeky types could sidestep places like geocities for web-pages and AOL for access by getting their own machines, building their own Linux stacks connecting to ISPs and hosting their own web services.
Blogging
If you don’t want to be reliant on commercial services like MT or even the free ones like WordPress there is nothing stopping you getting your own machine with a full stack of software using your own software. Dave Winer does this at scriping.com
You don’t need to be in the system to use it. For each example I’ve given above users had the choice to work entirely within the restricted stack and somehow subvert it. The big problem here is while the Internet is open the telephone/wireless system is not. But if enough people. companies build systems with a workaround even this won’t be as much a problem at some time in the future. In the case of the iPhone you can just as easily create a iPhone interface via open technologies and you are not locked into Apple. A combination of technology problems and mindset.
a bit later on…
"… it’s better to be a sharecropper making money than a farmer whose crops sell for nothing. The iPhone is a goldmine for developers… in my experience it’s much easier to make money selling apps than building a website. …"
You are both right and wrong. An alternative way of looking at it: ‘find a problem, take a risk and look for alternatives which have a much higher potential payoff’. Having said that you have to choose your battles carefully. But I wonder in Apples search for "purity"[0] there is a lot of "muck" that could be made money finding alternatives for disgruntled developers.
[0] As a side note there was a gallery of images of Jobs floating around of un-released images. One particular image stuck out more than any other that might help explain why the iPhone distribution platform is broken for developers. I looked at one image of Jobs in this house with no furniture save for a very expensive looking sound system. Could jobs aesthetic and psychology for pure look & sound be behind the approval process?
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More from the Wisconsin Capitol Building
Image by kern.justin
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I have a special treat lined up for tomorrow’s post – let’s just say that the throngs of thousands that made driving north on State Street between Washington and Randolph a 20-minute ordeal this afternoon might feel that it would have been easier just to visit tWp on Monday the 14th!
I am hoping to do something of a twelve days of Christmas here on tWp between now and the 25th, though I don’t think I have 12 Christmas themed images lined up – we’ll see how it goes and maybe I’ll just pepper the coming weeks with a few holiday images here and there. I sent out a tweet (from @thewindypixel) about a particularly inspiring landscape photographer, Tim Simmons, whose website can be found here. I highly recommend checking out his work – follow @thewindypixel to get updates on all sorts of cool stuff like Simmon’s work.
On another note, I continually receive requests for free usage of my images in commercial applications, as you might imagine this is incredibly flattering, but I am of the opinion that if my imagery can add to your commercial value, then it is worth something greater than free. I license all of the work you see here under the Creative Commons – which means any non-commercial usage is free and you can freely redistribute or re-post with credit. I think this model is great as it allows people to use and share my images (which is really humbling and drives traffic to this site and my flickr page), but I draw the line at commercial applications. I don’t do this to make money – I am most interested in the process of taking images and sharing images; but if you want to make money using other people’s photographs, you should expect to pay for that usage. Anyone out there had a similar experience? I know the stock photography business has been rattled to its core by micro-stock and such, but it seems silly for people to expect to put together entire textbooks or commerce publications with a
World Class Traffic Jam
Image by joiseyshowaa
Dhaka (Bangladesh) traffic has been called one of the 7 wonders of the modern world. To be fair, this is a street adjacent to New Market and isn’t really a normal traffic road. For example, rickshaws are prohibited. Bangladesh has been promoting the use of natural gas (CNG) for over a decade resulting in significant reduction in smog.
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photo budget – you get what you pay for people. Alright, rant off.
Here’s more from the Wisconsin Capitol building for today – I love the symmetry of this place and all the different light sources that bounce around. In the alcoves the light is all tungsten, but the closer you get to the rotunda the more beautiful natural light filters in.