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We all know, or should know, what the Apple App store is so I won’t get into explaining that. With the recent HUGE #AppleFail its approval process has been brought back into the spotlight. There is a strange disconnect between what Apple says it will approve and what they actually wind up approving. Apple needs to revamp this process and revamp it quickly.

My idea is this. Apple has the biggest group of the hardest core fans. Why don’t they make the first step of app approval a social experience. Bring in digg/reddit style voting, apps that move up the list the fastest or seem the coolest get a final review, also by volunteers, and get pushed into the store. You can tweak this idea as well. Instead of the voting method you could just get volunteers (I am sure you’d have no problem doing this) who would sign NDA’s and they would review and approve apps possibly pushing some to a peer group for a final review before getting pushed to the store. Since no one really knows what’s involved in the current process I am not even sure if this is any different that what takes place today. I just know this. The process needs to change and change quickly.

-Dave

Thanks to aGorilla at reddit:

About the current CEO:

Yes, I’m contradicting a post I made yesterday. I watched the full hearings on C-Span today, and learned a hell of a lot from them. Yeah, I changed my mind, but that’s what I do when I learn that the facts don’t match my perception.

This makes a lot of sense and well why I think the amount of pay is a lot its a very small part of the monies they’ve received.

Etan said I needed to have more here since he linked to me from his blog. So here is something. YAY! Follow me on twitter if you’d like bigdave914. I might make this into more of an Orlando Local’s blog since I have a lot to complain about. Like why does OUC raise rates yet there are always way to many lights on in their new building even at 1:30 am so I know its not cleaning crews. Yah.. WOO!

-Dave

Really, I do…

These were pretty funny the rap was funnier than the intro but you check them out for yourself:

“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday.
“We just wanted to choose a really large number.”

WOW! I mean OMG!

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Four reform steps will have capital flowing with no government bureaucracy and
no taxpayer burden.

First, suspend the mark-to-market rule which is
insanely driving companies to unnecessary bankruptcy. If short selling can be
suspended on 799 stocks (an arbitrary number and a warning of the rule by
bureaucrats which is coming under the Paulson plan), the mark-to-market rule can
be suspended for six months and then replaced with a more accurate three year
rolling average mark-to-market.

Second, repeal Sarbanes-Oxley. It failed
with Freddy Mac. It failed with Fannie Mae. It failed with Bear Stearns. It
failed with Lehman Brothers. It failed with AIG. It is crippling our
entrepreneurial economy. I spent three days this week in Silicon Valley.
Everyone agreed Sarbanes-Oxley was crippling the economy. One firm told me they
would bring more than 20 companies public in the next year if the law was
repealed. Its Sarbanes-Oxley’s $3 million per startup annual accounting fee that
is keeping these companies private.

Third, match our competitors in
China and Singapore by going to a zero capital gains tax. Private capital will
flood into Wall Street with zero capital gains and it will come at no cost to
the taxpayer. Even if you believe in a static analytical model in which lower
capital gains taxes mean lower revenues for the Treasury, a zero capital gains
tax costs much less than the Paulson plan. And if you believe in a historic
model (as I do), a zero capital gains tax would lead to a dramatic increase in
federal revenue through a larger, more competitive and more prosperous economy.

Fourth, immediately pass an “all of the above” energy plan designed to
bring home $500 billion of the $700 billion a year we are sending overseas. With
that much energy income the American economy would boom and government revenues
would grow

Source: Corner.NationalReview.com

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Blackberry Bold

AT&T Inc. says it will be the exclusive U.S. carrier for the
Bold, as it is for the iPhone. An AT&T spokesman declined to say
Thursday when the company will release it.

But Peter
Misek, an analyst with Canaccord Adams, said he expects AT&T to
start selling it on Sept. 15 and Rogers Communications in Canada to
release it on Aug. 18.

And this

Misek said the Bold will cost about $200 in the United States depending on the contract.

According
to T-Mobile web site in Germany the cost of the phone without a service
plan is 459.95 euros, or about $680. With a plan, it is 129.95 euros,
or about $190.

YAY I can’t wait!!!