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In programming, salaries rise quickly as you get experience, then level off. Sure, there are mundane programming jobs that don't pay as much, but those tend not to require much skill. Writing a professional quality program that handles all the bells and whistles being discussed requires a lot of skill. |
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And I don't think you understand what I'm talking about. I'm not interested in "good enough". I'm interested in excellence. So was Steve Jobs. The shoddy mobile devices with styluses and non-responsive screens, prior to the invention of the iPhone, were "good enough", weren't they? Yes, they most definitely were.
But Steve Jobs wasn't interested in "good enough", or in the expectations of the general public. He wanted excellence. And so do I, in terms of an e-reader. There are 7 billion people on this planet, and I'm 100% certain that there is a sizable market niche for an e-reader that is not merely "good enough", like the inept iBooks and Kindle, but superb. The trouble is that, at this point, even I, a Marvin fan and user, can't recommend Marvin to my professional colleagues with good conscience. I just can't. So you can't say whether there would be a sufficient enough market for a truly superb, professional e-reader, because such an e-reader has not yet been created in the history of humankind. Let's create it first, let's strive for that high aim, at least in our theoretical deliberations, instead of just being content with being "slightly above mediocre", and let's see what the future brings. ![]() You guys started talking about "wishful thinking", so here is mine: I wish that the developers of Marvin, MapleRead, Hyphen, tiReader, Moon+ Reader Pro (etc.) joined forces and created ONE superb multi-platform e-reader that would offer all the features professional users need while studying books. Yeah, it ain't gonna happen – "wishful thinking", like I said. But joining forces and creating "The Mother of All E-Readers" would make perfect sense, instead of each developer creating their own product, each coming up short in slightly different ways. I'm not giving up hope. Perhaps corporations have conscience, too, after all. (Mitt Romney said that corporations are people, too.) ![]() Of course we can. App users provide their feedback to developers, and developers can take it or leave it. Very simple. ![]() Quote:
To me, stating the deficiencies of an app is not "bashing". It's stating its deficiencies, period. That's it. How could developers ever improve their apps if users never stated what the deficiencies are? ![]() Bingo! ![]() Terisa, you think there aren't professional readers? Think again. I am one. I earn my living partly by proofreading books. I might also be a literary critic, and then I'd be earning my living by reading books, too. I might be a literary scholar, or a college student majoring in literary studies. The market is definitely there – but the app to satisfy those users is not. Last edited by Faterson; 09-11-2017 at 03:15 PM. |
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Sigh, well it's obvious you take feedback about as well as you give it. Good luck finding your perfect reader app. |
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No, I don't mean anything else. Having to choose for EVERY BOOK that I want the publisher formatting wasn't nice. And everybody can say how nice is to change the formatting at the app, I don't want to do it.
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One (not more) thing: a 30K EURO in Spain is a very good salary for a professional seasoned developer. You cannot get more money from any company, even if you are the mother of all developers.
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Seriously? 30K euro translates to 36K dollars. That's close to minimum wage in the US. There is a reason that a lot of programmers migrate to the US.
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![]() ![]() (And no, definitely not in Calibre by manually tweaking the code or any such stuff; a superb e-reader should give us those options directly in the app, and this is where apps like Marvin and Moon+ Reader on Android excel; with many shortcomings at this stage of development, of course, as Jon would be happy to point out.) Naturally, if your priorities are different, Terisa, Marvin and other "Stanza-lookalikes" won't be your cup of tea. ![]() Believe it or not, folks, but the legal minimum wage here in Slovakia, an EU country, is €5,220 per year. ![]() We can play that Monty Python game where they argued about who grew up in poorer conditions. ![]() |
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