> They seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding in that they (apparently) believe their problem in the market is price when it's actually something much more basic: trust.
Trust is not the issue. Google wants to sell "management" while AWS (et al) are selling raw resources. To use Google Cloud you have to change or build your system for it, using new APIs, configuration systems, other managed services and even programming languages. Todays announcement was: you can have raw VM control with our management too! I don't see it being any easier now (even MORE options!) but I think they're on the right track. They need to make it simpler rather than cheaper.
Ximarin exposed native phone options in C#. They didn't make a compatibility layer to ease development. As you said, build your UI twice, then get native tools to compile. Now with Windows Phone we'll either have three UIs to build, or a generic abstraction layer (that Apple will reject.)
Unity would have to fork Mono, as would Gnome and Canonical and Redhat, etc... The comments here seem very trusting of Microsoft. If it was Oracle a fork would be a given.
I think they're already using their own fork of an older Mono version. They couldn't work out a mutually beneficial licensing deal with Xamarin to keep using their newest Mono versions or something.
I think Unity have a good relationship with MS, so Mono being moved to MS should be good news to Unity -- for a while.
Yes, for the same reasons that Credit Unions are better than Banks. Watching out for the customer, in a principled way, is a great selling point. But it would also need to be stable, for the long term, which means profitable and large enough to survive the bad times.
DNS + simple hosting + support, is an ideal market for a non-profit focused on free speech and democratic participation.
Use the website the college has provided. This isn't about your convenience or technical judgement (about a system you don't maintain). It's about the students and the rest of the college.
That said, encrypt the each grade with a key derived from the students ID (which is privileged information) and make a webpage to do the decryption for the students. SHA256 ( ID + Salt ) == Key for symmetric encryption.
Distributions include src packages separate from compiled code, so why couldn't the Apple Store (or any store) do that? This isn't a legal issue; Google allows GPL code on it's app store.
The vast majority of people don't care at all about read receipts.
Marketers don't care who _isn't_ reading their mail, they care how to send mail that more people will read.
Who subscribes to a direct email campaign (and doesn't unsubscribe, and doesn't flag as spam), and is still offended by the thought of the sender knowing it was read?
Those people can flip the setting back to prompt-to-show-images.
Trust is not the issue. Google wants to sell "management" while AWS (et al) are selling raw resources. To use Google Cloud you have to change or build your system for it, using new APIs, configuration systems, other managed services and even programming languages. Todays announcement was: you can have raw VM control with our management too! I don't see it being any easier now (even MORE options!) but I think they're on the right track. They need to make it simpler rather than cheaper.