Back of the envelop: App price: $3 User Cap: 100k Apple Cut 30%. Hourly Rate: $150/hr => Max of 35 man-weeks of development supported¹

Quite informative. 35 man-weeks sound like a fair amount of time for a low-complexity novelty app to me, but for a full fledged power user Twitter client it seems waaaay to little to succeed in the long run.

Yes, we do already have a lot of third party twitter client and based on Tapbots’ reactions it seems like things aren’t so bad, at least not for them, but who’s to say that the greatest third party twitter client hasn’t yet been released?

Take the example of a cleaning service. People don’t get outraged that their cleaner charges money.¹

Amy Worrall really nails it in regards to the negative voices that’s currently being raised toward app.net.

I dont’t see why some people have such a hard time seeing why a web service charging money from their users can be a good thing. Any business needs customers, someone who pay for their product. Web services, applications etc. also needs users. Either the customer and the user are the same person, or we have the more common situation where the user is what is actually being sold to the actual customer; the advertisers. This is what I like to call the Customer or Cattle situation, or dilemma.

Personally I prefer being the customer, but if what a service offers me is good enough, or their monetization of me is unobtrusive and non-evil enough, I can consider being a cattle as well. Twitter has been a great example of that. But as of this weeks announcement of API rules changes the situation is likely to change.²

as far as i’m concerned, the most powerful feminist can do WHATEVER SHE WANTS.

THAT IS WHAT DEFINES A TRUE FEMINIST.

this includes: wearing heels, wearing combat boots, wearing nothing, sporting lipstick, shaving, not shaving, waxing, not waxing, being political, being apolitical, having a job, being homeless, gazing at men, gazing at women, gazing at porn of all sorts, glamming up like a drag queen, going in man-drag, being in a five-way polyamorous relationship, being childless, being a stay-at-home parent, being single, having a wife, having a husband, and gazing/cooing adoringly at those that wives or husbands anywhere they fucking choose, including elevators, restaurants, puppet shows (well, maybe keep it g-rated if there are small children present), ….or on theatrical stages at fringe festivals. are we getting the picture here?? the most powerful feminist can do WHATEVER SHE WANTS. the minute you believe you’re a “bad feminist” because you said the wrong thing/wore the wrong thing/got married/chose to have children…or otherwise broke some unspecified ”code of feminism”: DON’T BUY IT. THERE ISN’T ONE. you can do ANYTHING YOU WANT. ANYTHING. THAT’S THE POINT.¹

I agree wholeheartedly, except I just want to point out that a feminist doesn’t have to be a woman. It can also be a man, or someone who doesn’t want to identify with either gender. Any human being should be able to be whoever he/she/it likes.

Netflix is announcing that its streaming movie and TV service is on its way to Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland before the end of 2012, joining the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland, and 47 countries in Latin America.¹

”This changes everything”, so to speak.

Maybe not everything, but it’s definitely an important step toward a better home media setup. I’ve previously written about my love for the Plex Media Server and how it transformed watching movies I own into something much more enjoyable. Netflix plus a Roku or and AppleTV might do the same thing for movies I don’t ”need” to own, but want to watch. (Hello Predator marathon!)

Today’s Daring Fireball post on the Retina MacBook Pro is really Gruber at his best. A long, but succinct post with lots of his personality poured into it.

But now this. The 15-inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display. This is a boom. A revolution in resolution. The display I’ve been craving ever since I first saw high-resolution laser printer output.¹