Stumbled into this on the iTunes App Store page for Opera Mini. What you need to note is the bright blue text that says “You must be at least 17 years old to download this game” which is followed by the reason “Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes”.
To start of, the first thing thats wrong should probably be the fact that the Web Browser is not a game. I’m not going to get into how they found Mature/Suggestive Themes on the internet (god knows there are a lot of those) but shouldn’t Safari have these same warnings?
Update: This is just an observation I made. I am not going anti-apple here and am not an Apple Critic. This post was supposed to fall under the humorous mixup category.
Is it just me or is everyone annoyed with how much AT&T charges for messaging? I’m pretty positive that the actual bandwidth (and in turn, expenses for AT&T) used by text messages is a lot lower than the other services. We can all agree that messaging is way too over priced, but my annoyance for the day is the 3 packages offered.
AT&T offers 3 messaging plans. A 200 messages plan for $5, a 1500 messages plan for $15 and Unlimited for $20. There is a lot of room between 200 to 1500! I personally text about 300-400 times a month but have to pay the $15 for 1500 messages.
Come on AT&T! Get something right for once and make a $10 messaging plan for 600 messages a month or something!
A recent Atlanta startup has started to become really popular. Wavee is a penny auction site where you can win a lot of cool merchandise for dirt cheap prices (a Nikon Coolpix worth $184.99 for 20 cents as shown below). The catch? There is indeed one. To be able to bid, you need to purchase credits which cost $0.75/credit.
Sounds like a deal doesn’t it. Wavee advertises between 70-99% discounts on the final bid price (vs. the retail cost of the item). How does Wavee make money? Well, my rather inquisitive nature led me to figure out the math behind Wavee.
My goal is to figure out the relationship between the Value of an item and the final selling bid at the break even point.
The total revenue (which at break even point will be equal to the retail price of the item) from the sale of a product is the revenue from bids ($0.75 * number of bids) and final selling bid ($.01 * number of bids). The gets the total revenue from a sale to be $0.76 * number of bids.
Since the final selling bid is $0.01 * number of bids (hence, number of bids = 100 * final selling bid), the total revenue can be written as 76 * final selling bid. So, we come to the conclusion that Wavee breaks even when the final selling bidis 1/76th the value of the item. This equates to final selling bid having a98.68% discount on the value of the item.
So, you can see that Wavee makes a profit whenever they sell a product at a 98.68% discount or less. Sounds like a deal for both the startup and the buyer. Check them out and have some fun.
Note: This analysis is done with only the sale of the item in perspective. You got to keep in mind that there are other expenses for the company such as development costs and employee salaries. Wavee also provides 5 free credits to each new account and also gives reward credits which are not accounted for. But the basic idea remains the same. If the winner of the auction is not a total idiot, he is definitely going to make a saving on his purchase; and as long as Wavee has enough users bidding, they will make a profit too.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Stumbled into this on the iTunes App Store page for Opera Mini. What you need to note is the bright blue text that says “You must be at least 17 years old to download this game” which is followed by the reason “Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes”.
