ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?
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It will be interesting to see how this pans out. I'm hoping it will be the end of large scale advertising funded content and the introduction of a good system for paying for content. Because I hate adverts. I'd happily pay for the content I consume on the web, but there's no system in place for it to work at the moment - to subscribe to all the newspapers and magazines I read would currently cost me about $500 a month!
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@Carnival-Boy said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. I'm hoping it will be the end of large scale advertising funded content and the introduction of a good system for paying for content. Because I hate adverts. I'd happily pay for the content I consume on the web, but there's no system in place for it to work at the moment - to subscribe to all the newspapers and magazines I read would currently cost me about $500 a month!
Yeah. The one local paper I would subscribe to is only $8 a month for online only ... or $10 for print... If they lowered the price to $5 a month, I'd likely pay that in a heartbeat.
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I also think that if there was no advertising funded content, and all newspapers were subscription only, or disappeared entirely, and I couldn't afford to take out the subscriptions, I would be forced to just read books. And if that happened, I'm pretty sure my life would actually be much better and more rewarding.
So why don't I just read books now, and ignore on-line newspapers and magazines? Because I'm very bad at doing what actually makes me happy!
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@Carnival-Boy said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
I also think that if there was no advertising funded content, and all newspapers were subscription only, or disappeared entirely, and I couldn't afford to take out the subscriptions, I would be forced to just read books. And if that happened, I'm pretty sure my life would actually be much better and more rewarding.
So why don't I just read books now, and ignore on-line newspapers and magazines? Because I'm very bad at doing what actually makes me happy!
Ha ha ha. I just read an entire book series in like... A month. All 17 books. It was great. Now I'm rady to get back into my computing again, lol.
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@dafyre We have to ask, which book series?
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@travisdh1 said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
@dafyre We have to ask, which book series?
Sorcerer's Ring by Morgan Rice. 17 books lol.
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@dafyre said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
@travisdh1 said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
@dafyre We have to ask, which book series?
Sorcerer's Ring by Morgan Rice. 17 books lol.
I'll have to check it out... Amazon likes you today I think.
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@travisdh1 said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
@dafyre said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
@travisdh1 said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
@dafyre We have to ask, which book series?
Sorcerer's Ring by Morgan Rice. 17 books lol.
I'll have to check it out... Amazon likes you today I think.
Shameless plug time... Check out the Whispering Pines series by Charles. E. Wells on amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Whispering-Pines-Book-ebook/dp/B005TJ2PNW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461087593&sr=8-1&keywords=whispering+Pines+charles+e+wells)...
Shamless Plug for my Pop's book series, ha ha.
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@Carnival-Boy said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. I'm hoping it will be the end of large scale advertising funded content and the introduction of a good system for paying for content. Because I hate adverts. I'd happily pay for the content I consume on the web, but there's no system in place for it to work at the moment - to subscribe to all the newspapers and magazines I read would currently cost me about $500 a month!
Exactly, this is the problem - how do you pay those websites?
Google has a program that you can put money into and when you visit sites that subscribe to that service, instead of displaying an ad to you, google puts something non intrusive, and pays the site like 1/10 cent or whatever the agreement is.
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@Dashrender said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
@Carnival-Boy said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. I'm hoping it will be the end of large scale advertising funded content and the introduction of a good system for paying for content. Because I hate adverts. I'd happily pay for the content I consume on the web, but there's no system in place for it to work at the moment - to subscribe to all the newspapers and magazines I read would currently cost me about $500 a month!
Exactly, this is the problem - how do you pay those websites?
Google has a program that you can put money into and when you visit sites that subscribe to that service, instead of displaying an ad to you, google puts something non intrusive, and pays the site like 1/10 cent or whatever the agreement is.
I could handle something like that. The problem is that if I'm paying for it, I don't want to see ads at all -- unintrusive or not... One of the reasons I hated paying for cable was all the commercials.
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@Carnival-Boy said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. I'm hoping it will be the end of large scale advertising funded content and the introduction of a good system for paying for content. Because I hate adverts. I'd happily pay for the content I consume on the web, but there's no system in place for it to work at the moment - to subscribe to all the newspapers and magazines I read would currently cost me about $500 a month!
Sadly, what is often happening, is that the content itself gets sponsored. What to avoid an ad blocker... pay someone to write content that looks like news but is actually a sales brochure.
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We just need a Netflix or Spotify for journalism. Pay $10 a month and get access to the NY Times, Guardian, Rolling Stone, Time and hundreds of other websites. The newspapers/mags get $0.005 per page view.
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@Carnival-Boy said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
We just need a Netflix or Spotify for journalism. Pay $10 a month and get access to the NY Times, Guardian, Rolling Stone, Time and hundreds of other websites. The newspapers/mags get $0.005 per page view.
Not a bad idea. I'm surprised that nothing like that exists, yet.
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@scottalanmiller said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
@Carnival-Boy said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
We just need a Netflix or Spotify for journalism. Pay $10 a month and get access to the NY Times, Guardian, Rolling Stone, Time and hundreds of other websites. The newspapers/mags get $0.005 per page view.
Not a bad idea. I'm surprised that nothing like that exists, yet.
It does. http://texture.com/twit
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@Dashrender said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
@scottalanmiller said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
@Carnival-Boy said in ComputerWorld: Is Microsoft About to Replace Windows Phone with Android?:
We just need a Netflix or Spotify for journalism. Pay $10 a month and get access to the NY Times, Guardian, Rolling Stone, Time and hundreds of other websites. The newspapers/mags get $0.005 per page view.
Not a bad idea. I'm surprised that nothing like that exists, yet.
It does. http://texture.com/twit
Find me something like that for news papers.
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It will be interesting to see if Texture survives - and if it does.. what e-zines survive on the platform.
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All the "best" magazines.
