February 10, 2012

apple vs adobe?

Looks like the verdict is in, folks adobe either did not want to go to court, or thought that spending all that money on lawyers, would be better spent, supporting, apples, competition.

If you think of it that way then you can see just how dumb apple was in this issue and how it continues to be dumb.

One thing that seems crazy is how apple is treating the very people that have supported them for years, in some cases driving people back into the arms of windows, I bet bill gates is laughing and laughing and laughing…

But when you think about it, you just have to wonder what is going on over at apple, yes, they have sold a lot of ipods, they sold a lot of iphone, (not as many as they could have sold, if they had not gone exclusive with att) but who knows, if you bought apple at 74 then right about now is a great time to dump it, and I mean dump it fast before it goes down…

Why? Well, when a company creates problems for itself, like what has happened to apple in the past month then disaster is on the way and you read it hear first. Apple is allegedly going down down down, unless a change is made and that may in fact include taking the AX to SJ, if in fact he is responsible for this fiasco, who ever did this should be fired, fired fired.

They made an alleged enemy of a giant competitor, and that is stupid stupid stupid…
Prepare for a huge dustup, or not, the lawyers, are set to begin a huge lawsuit, that many feel apple is destined, to loose, even if they win.

So what up, is stevie out of a job?

Will adobe sue apple, and will apple sue back, the world wants to know, but in reality, this school yard bully fight is really stupid, mostly from little Stevie, it is just crazy and actually what is needed is a vote of no confidence.

What, you did not hear that here, but really come on Stevie, you really cant expect to play this I am going to take my ball and go home game with the company, the customers, the developers, (which are really customers too) dont forget that, you chiseler,

Well as many have suggested, the rumor mills are in running full time, with the most recent blast, or blunder by apple, which allegedly prohibits an entire cottage industry that was blooming in the shade of the great apple tree, but now may be defunct.

So with one fell swoop, apple may have caused Millions in damages, (allegedly)

NO one seems to know for sure but it does appear that if the language that we see in the new terms and conditions, which may be a thinly veiled salvo between two super powers, with entire villages, becoming collateral damage. Many fear that perhaps apple may have allegedly bitten off more than it can chew, so in reality, what we are seeing here, is a huge rip in the fabric of developers lives.

So really until we see some additional information, what we are facing is Xcode which is not as bad as some may have been lead to belive it is, sure the documentation, is allegedly, hard to follow and full of nerdy fluff,

One of the biggest issues is that many seem to be under the mistaken impression that apple cares about the little guys out here trying to make a living in a world where the hourly wage, has hit bottom since 1998, so in reality, the only thing that you can really do is to subscribe to the notion, when in rome…

Oh one final thought I am now wondering if I should just return all the ipads we purchased for our development team?

If apple wants to play war, then fine, but I can buy a boat load of droids, and still save money…

Ebay new affiliate program ends profitable relationships?

Is this the end for Ebay affiliate programs that used to be profitable?

Looks like a flat line to me, pronounced dead at 1201 am oct 1 2009

May ebay rest in pieces, as commissioned sales flat line across the board.

do you notice how your commissions are gone now?

Why not tell about it we would love to compare notes, and more so if you happen to know a good alternative to ebay because we have taken down all our ebay related advertising.

In the past our network was profitable however with the new affiliate system it appears we will not profit at all, so we went from a good profitable situation to a zero profitable situation, so we will be pulling all of our Ebay partner advertising over the next 2 weeks.

If you find that you also have been eliminated, and can no longer retain profits then you should seriously consider alternate networks that are not so hands on in the process of pushing the little guys out of business.

Here is a previous screen shot of how we profited before the change and below that will be a screen shot of how it looks now, the difference is obvious and it is obvious why this has been done, personally and my opinion only here is that this will hurt Ebay in the long run, a shame really but no surprise when people who have no training make business decisions.

Before

As you can see in the after picture there is nothing under Earnings, this is what we expected, however we wanted to wait, and if there is a change we will post that change, however we feel like the new changes were designed to eliminate small vendors like our network from being profitable, again that is just our opinion and may not be accurate, but so far it sure looks like a bad thing, much like the mistakes that amazon made recently, followed by a drop in revenue, I expect to see a drop in ebay stock and quarterly profits as well.

So why do they get greedy? no one knows for sure but one thing is clear the people in charge at Ebay are not in the right place with regard to vendors and sellers.

Stats before the change

Stats before the change

Here is a screen shot after the new system

Here is a screen shot after the new system