Comments on: S03E12 – The Country Fair

By: Anders Jenbo

Anders Jenbo — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:48:06 +0000

You can see some of the contries that are not able to buy or sell android apps here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Market#Availability_for_users

Also there a petision, to open up the markin for every one, going on here:
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/androidmarket/0/209/

By: Chris K

Chris K — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:05:24 +0000

Hi,
Wonderful show Laura and co, keep the informative and entertaining content coming.

Perhaps you good folk could help me with my goal of trading my art and design skills through ubuntu and free software?

I’ve been a bootleg Photoshop user in my pauper state but I want to legitimise my operation by getting into GIMP for photographic retouch and image manipulations: http://www.symbolicmeasures.co.uk/

I’ve been using 64bit version of lucid to test the waters and to be frank, I’m having a helluva time getting my WACOM Graphire4 working on the duel screen set-up I’ve got going on. GIMP, MyPaint and Inkscape work but pressure sensitivity and cursor positioning on the graphic tablet is screwed. Even the excellent Wacom Control Panel (http://gtk-apps.org/content/show.php/Wacom+Control+Panel?content=104309) has failed me.

The ubuntu forums are a mess of contradicting advice for each release, so much so that I’m seriously considering going back to vista for my design projects.

I’ve had a quick look at openArtist but to be honest, it looks really early days raw and unpolished to me – judging from the website.

Would it be pleasing for you to spend a little podcast time examining the pros for startup artists using ubuntu as an operating system? I need more motivating.

Yours,
CK
the order of symbolic measures

By: Anders Jenbo

Anders Jenbo — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:21:11 +0000

The Android store only have payed apps in a select set of countries, in Denmark for example you can ONLY get free apps via the app store. I would expect this to screw seriously with the “iPhone users pay for more apps” statistic that you refereed to in this pod-cast.
The reason for this is that Google’s lawyers hasn’t had time to read and green light the trait laws in tows countries. Apple on the other hand has (actually you you can’t buy films or tv episodes in iTunes either, but you can buy apps).

By: marxjohnson

marxjohnson — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:01:07 +0000

Just a note on the difference between Last.fm and Spotify, the main one is that Spotify has a much larger music catalogue (in many cases, an artist’s entire discography), which can be searched and played from on demand. Spotify Free and Spotify Open (the cost-free options) are also ad-supported, by both visual ads in the client and audio ads interspersed with the music, which allows them to pay for the music listened to.
Also, Spotify’s service doesn’t currently integrate into other audio applications like Last.fm’s does.