Now, the search giant is taking its distaste for anonymity to a whole new level, instituting a pop-up dialogue box urging YouTube users to employ their real names.
I’m down with it if it can solve the problem of Youtube comments being a cesspool of racist douchebag who doesn’t understand the meaning of the word, “troll”.
So the news is that Dead Trigger, a popular Android & iOS zombie-shooter game is now free, at least on Android. The thought behind this was one word: piracy. The developer says on their official facebook page that even when they sold the game for $0.99, they found the piracy level in Android to be unbelievably high.
My thought as an Android user? Well, he’s pretty much right. I can’t say much for android users in the United States, but Android is pretty popular choice around here. Especially around college student. And most of the people i knew who uses Android unfortunately have to pirate their game. Why? Simple reason. They don’t have credit card. Yes, unbeliavable especially if you live in the US, but it’s true. And for me more reason to believe that the real logic behind piracy is not because users simply doesn’t want to pay or the internet made us all used to the word “free”. No, not at all.
The reason is the process of buying was just too hard. We’re human. And what do we do as human when we find things too hard? We find ways to make it easier.1
via: The Verge
Best line? Gotta be this:
I really don’t understand the “pee in the snow” model of skinning android to look and act horrible just so that the different manufacturers can make their mark on it – I’m pretty sure the majority of people tend to prefer plain android
Pee in the snow. Anyway it’s a must read.