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Re: New smartphone

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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:09
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In article <4bbe1d5c$0$1674$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Brad Allen
<qm@sonic.net> wrote:

> $99?  Are they nuts?  Does this work on PPC Mac, or is a newer mac required?

intel only but it's been hacked to sort of work on powerpc. you do
realize that intel macs were announced five years ago, right? time to
move on.

> $99 is 4 days pay for me.  That's just not worthwhile for an augusting
> market that is saturated with competition.  I'd expect Apple would pay
> developers $20 each to work on their platform -- it'd make it more
> competitive.

there is no shortage of iphone developers, so there's no need to pay
people to write for it, and if you write a decent app, you'll make back
the 99 bucks in an afternoon.
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