CDRinfo published several tests of dVD burners able to reach a burning speed of 22x, including the last model from LG: the GH22NS30. As all tested drives, burning faster is not synonym of better burning quality. Indeed, the error rate per burned media is much higher than the expected standards.
Of course, recent drives can handle such burning errors to finally get the data out of them, however this is not a good point for a reliable long-term storage. Indeed, any additional physical damages could make the media totally unreadable, even on those error-correction enable drives.
If you still want to buy one of those high-burning speed drives, then you better check twice the article to identify which media you will have to use in order to minimize the error rate and offer a true reliable burned media.
Wired dives into App Store piracy
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone, App Store, Jailbreak/pwnage
App Store piracy is a growing concern for more and more developers, thanks to tools like Crackulous and various BitTorrent trackers. Although developers are fighting back, this is a problem that really isn't going away.So how widespread is App Store piracy? Earlier this week, Wired's Brian X. Chen spoke with a number of developers and analysts about the issue, and right now, it looks like piracy is still relatively self-contained. According to Medialets, a mobile analytics and advertising company, approximately 5,000 of the 25,000 paid apps in the App Store have been cracked. The company also reports that some programs have as high as a 100-1 pirate-pay ratio -- dramatic, but not necessarily catastrophic.
It isn't all doom and gloom, however. As the Wired piece points out, some developers see the level of piracy as completely inconsequential. Others, like BeeJive have had to fight back against cracking, but have also used it as an indicator that the price of an app needs to decrease.
I take issue with Chen's citation of a 2008 Business Software Alliance study that claimed that the economic impact of software piracy is in the tens of billions of dollars each year. While software piracy undoubtedly has an economic impact, the figures that the BSA claims are just insane. Each pirated copy of a piece of software does not necessarily equal a lost sale and while software piracy, in any form, is certainly bad for the overall software ecosystem, distorting the truth doesn't help the situation.
Our own Michael Rose talked about App Store piracy with the CEO from Medialets on TechVi this morning and the conversation is pretty interesting.
Of course, the crackers may end up bringing themselves down, which is kind of cute.
[hat-tip Apple 2.0]
TUAWWired dives into App Store piracy originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple pushes devs to deliver 64-bit support with new Snow Leopard beta
As expected, Apple on Wednesday evening provided its vast developer community with a new pre-release distribution of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and asked that they focus attention on 64-bit compatibility in their third party kernel extensions.
Extreme DVD Burners: Burn Faster, BUT Not Better
CDRinfo published several tests of dVD burners able to reach a burning speed of 22x, including the last model from LG: the GH22NS30. As all tested drives, burning faster is not synonym of better burning quality. Indeed, the error rate per burned media is much higher than the expected standards.
Of course, recent drives can handle such burning errors to finally get the data out of them, however this is not a good point for a reliable long-term storage. Indeed, any additional physical damages could make the media totally unreadable, even on those error-correction enable drives.
If you still want to buy one of those high-burning speed drives, then you better check twice the article to identify which media you will have to use in order to minimize the error rate and offer a true reliable burned media.
Wired dives into App Store piracy
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone, App Store, Jailbreak/pwnage
App Store piracy is a growing concern for more and more developers, thanks to tools like Crackulous and various BitTorrent trackers. Although developers are fighting back, this is a problem that really isn't going away.So how widespread is App Store piracy? Earlier this week, Wired's Brian X. Chen spoke with a number of developers and analysts about the issue, and right now, it looks like piracy is still relatively self-contained. According to Medialets, a mobile analytics and advertising company, approximately 5,000 of the 25,000 paid apps in the App Store have been cracked. The company also reports that some programs have as high as a 100-1 pirate-pay ratio -- dramatic, but not necessarily catastrophic.
It isn't all doom and gloom, however. As the Wired piece points out, some developers see the level of piracy as completely inconsequential. Others, like BeeJive have had to fight back against cracking, but have also used it as an indicator that the price of an app needs to decrease.
I take issue with Chen's citation of a 2008 Business Software Alliance study that claimed that the economic impact of software piracy is in the tens of billions of dollars each year. While software piracy undoubtedly has an economic impact, the figures that the BSA claims are just insane. Each pirated copy of a piece of software does not necessarily equal a lost sale and while software piracy, in any form, is certainly bad for the overall software ecosystem, distorting the truth doesn't help the situation.
Our own Michael Rose talked about App Store piracy with the CEO from Medialets on TechVi this morning and the conversation is pretty interesting.
Of course, the crackers may end up bringing themselves down, which is kind of cute.
[hat-tip Apple 2.0]
TUAWWired dives into App Store piracy originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple pushes devs to deliver 64-bit support with new Snow Leopard beta
As expected, Apple on Wednesday evening provided its vast developer community with a new pre-release distribution of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and asked that they focus attention on 64-bit compatibility in their third party kernel extensions.
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