Because every printer mfgr has a complex driver system that doesn't work the same as normal driver installation.

You can't simply install the driver at all. You can't choose "Have Disk" and install from INF at all. The only way to add a printer is during the "plug the printer in now" step of a massive installation program.

This is why I love AirPrint on MacOS/iOS. I have two printers that were originally bought for my Windows PCs (a $40 Epson inkjet and a $200 HP color laser), but I did make sure they supported AirPrint for my iOS devices. I had to download and install drivers for all five of our Windows PCs.

I brought a MacBook Pro home from work and it automatically found and worked with both of my printers with no drivers needed.

In my experience, the reason for this is that conservatives push out a lot of hate in their postings and liberals don't. No one wants to read a lot of nasty name-calling.

I keep one right wing nutjob in my feed just for a laugh. He is one of those that believe Chuck Norris and Rick Perry along with the national guard are going to protect Texas from a Federal government takeover from the Isis-loving-Obama.

No this is not a joke:

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/0...

And that Sandy Hook was a conspiracy for the government to take guns away....

http://21stcenturywire.com/201...

Thank you for sharing your anecdotal insight. The internet owes you a debt of gratitude.

You made the car analogy. It took a programmer or group of programmers time to write the program. Are you willing to use your time for free and come over to cut my grass?

Going back to your car analogy....

Can a person randomly decide how much they want to pay for a car and just walk out with the car based on the price they decide to pay?

Still didn't answer the question. How should an independent developer get paid and who decides?

Or should people just buy an entry-level Android phone and use it without a SIM?

Why not?

The Moto E is $120 without a contract and I'm sure it runs better than an iPod Touch that has the same internals as the 2011 iPhone 4s.

And his 2011 iPad 2 runs the latest version of iOS....

http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/02/...

Wipe it, then go along re installing apps. DO NOT restore it, just let things come back from the holy google cloud.

Since when did Android do automatic backups of all your app data? Not just the apps -- the actual data.

So when should a software developer get paid for software that he wrote on his own time and self publishes?

When should an author of a book get paid?

A builder and a car manufacturer gets paid for each house they sell or each car they make respectively. Why shouldn't a developer get paid for each piece of software they write or a book publisher get paid for each copy of a book they sell?

Words Mean Things:

"So if a developer writes a new program on their own and publishes it".

So to clarify the question, if a developer writes a program on their own time and self publishes it, should they not reap the rewards of the program and only get paid for writing it?

So if a developer writes a new program on their own and publishes it. Should they not get paid every time someone uses it and only get paid for the time they spent writing it? Would you tell a developer if they want to get paid they should continuously write new stuff instead of expecting to get paid for what they already wrote? Should an author only get paid while they are writing a book and not expect to get paid when a copy of the book is sold?

So as long as you don't care about stuff like (mostly) guaranteed OS updates you can get a ad card slot -- which you still can't always use to store apps....

But most non-Apple smartphones use micro-SD these days,

Really? You mean like the Nexus? The Galaxy S6?

And then since my wife wants it for her mp3 player, not for an apple device, I need to run it through SoundConversion.

What modern device doesn't support AAC?

And no, AAC is not an Apple proprietary standard any more than MP3 is and is supported by every imaginable device.