a)It takes a lot of time and technical skill to clone a good iOS app..and even if you are successful you have to go through the Apple Developer Program(which is annoying but it helps) and there are legal implications.
b) yeah fart apps are easy to make...but try cloning a good app like angry birds or talking tom cat!
c) if you really wanna clone and make money your best bet would be to clone as fast as possible and clone a lot of apps.You'd much rather just stick to rails apps (heroku ftw!)
d) and lastly there are people who can clone even the best iOS apps very quickly...but with that kind of technical skill also comes creativity and integrity!
There are dozens of clones of angry birds. Some of them as good or possibly better. And we aren't talking about clones of polished products here, we're talking about a site that admittedly took a 2.5 hours to make. The comparison to a fart app (though their site is vastly more useful, and a unique idea AFAIK) is apt.
Lets take something with a bit less stigma. Background-changing apps. There are, what, 100+ of them? Probably more? Lots of them even share some backgrounds, which is visible if you just skim a dozen from the app store's images. And almost every single one has probably paid back the dev time it took to make, if not through sales then through ads.
> And we aren't talking about clones of polished products here.
Well when I said "This is why I stick to iOS apps" I was actually referring to the cloning of popular websites like quora,reddit etc.I am sorry if I did not make that very clear.
>Lets take something with a bit less stigma.,Background-changing apps. There are, what, 100+ of them?
Why take such an example when I have clearly agreed that it very easy to clone such apps.
> There are dozens of clones of angry birds. Some of them as good or possibly better.
wouldnt you rather use a currency whose value does not depend by dumb politicians?...wouldnt you use a currency whose value truly depends on the laws of supply and demand?
That would be the US dollar. The Fed is independent of "dumb politicians", who cannot coerce monetary policy, and its value is determined by supply and demand, as is any commodity.
The Fed is not entirely independent of "dumb politicians" since it targets both inflation/deflation and unemployment. When politicians make exceptionally stupid decisions, such as borrowing too much money which results in a bubble of productive overcapacity that then pops and produces excess unemployment, then the Fed has to react by devaluing the dollar to bring unemployment under control. It would be preferable for it to have an adversarial relationship with the politicians in which it would raise interest rates when fiscal policy starts to get out of control in order to make sovereign borrowing too painful past a certain predefined level (such as a percentage of GDP) but this seems unlikely given that politicians are responsible for nominating and confirming Fed governors.
No, we shouldn't. Politicians have a very long and impressive history of running up excessive debts and then printing their way out of them. The Fed was created from a careful compromise between loose money and sound money interests, and could probably do with a bit less interference from the political class. As someone who works hard and saves carefully for retirement, I would prefer to avoid to have the risk that my investments would be devalued in real terms at some point in the future because the two main political parties in US over the last couple of decades seem to view compromise as the act of raising spending, cutting taxes, and borrowing money.
If you're joking you got me. I can't think of another commodity whose value is affected by the government to the degree of fiat currency. Even if you leave the impact of government borrowing/spending aside, a dollar (or any other fiat currency) is just a piece of paper until the government institutes legal tender laws and demands people make and accept payments denominated in that currency.
yes...we emotionally warped hypergeeks have something tht we can offer people....their own time...while the others seem to be making money through bullshit sales pitches!!
