Difference is Apple had sales of about a million watches in the first day, just in the USA alone. The only reason for this lottery at all is that general sale of is sold out till June at least.
By contrast Google Glass, over what, 18 months, perhaps sold a few hundred Google Glasses. I'd be very surprised if Apple didn't sell more $10,000 Edition Watches in the first day than Google ever sold Glasses.
They already hold a lottery for WWDC, as it is far more popular than the number of people they can actually hold in the largest venue. And that too is a lottery to get the chance to purchase. So it's not a new thing.
I have no idea how they choose who to send these to, as I'm an iOS developer working on an Apple Watch compatible app and I didn't get one.
Probably by some function of the number of apps they have on the store and the number of sales of those apps.
That would cut out all the people who aren't actual developers, that nevertheless have developer accounts. And it would be a decent stab at prioritising those more likely to ship something that people want to buy.
I hope my new country will never become "civilised".
I don't think there's much danger of that.
Oh, and Europe does have price gouging laws, and unlike the US, they apply even when there is no state of emergency.
No, it's pretty much you guys and the Russians.
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Sounds like Android. Think I've found your problem.
Neither do I. But for site I use everyday, I'll take the app in preference to the mobile website every time.
And no, full (non responsive) websites are certainly not better than mobile ones when you are on a phone. They mean that either the text is too small to read and the buttons and links to small to press, or you have to constantly scroll left and right as well as up and down.
Looks like web developers got hold of some mod points.
Slashdot isn't responsive. (Don't know about beta, I stayed on classic.)
This is responsive: https://css-tricks.com/
Tell me what's wrong with it.
It depends. If it's a site I use a lot, then I welcome an app. They are invariably better in every way than a mobile site. But if it's a site you're only using casually, you certainly don't want an app.
Designers need to use better tools. Unfortunately most of them stick to photoshop as if their lives depended on it.
Most of us haven't forgiven MS nor trust them again, yet. Why use Bing when there's Duck Duck Go?
The problem with that is Google needs to provide consistent results across all devices.
Google long ago abandoned giving consistent results across anything. The days when "I'm third in the search for
The modern way to do mobile is responsive design. This also makes it better for desktop, because if you shrink your browser window down, the content resizes and relays out, and uses alternative layouts as appropriate, so you never have to scroll horizontally to read a web page.
I know nothing of these price gouging laws of which you speak. But then I live in a civilised country, where people aren't taught from birth to fuck each other over if possible.
Many stores will simply close altogether; it's not worth staying open in an emergency subject to price fixing laws if they can just sell at the same price after the emergency is over anyway.
Sure it is, because the stock will sell far faster - assuming it's the kind of store that sells practical items.
Given that they would be open when the emergency is over anyway. All that period of high sales would be wasted opportunity.
And that's just from the purely selfish capitalist angle. Mostly shops are run by decent human beings so will strive to be open in times of need anyway because they don't want to cause even more suffering.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
