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    • travisdh1T
      travisdh1 @dafyre
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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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      • dafyreD
        dafyre @travisdh1
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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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        • DashrenderD
          Dashrender @Carnival Boy
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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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          • dafyreD
            dafyre @Dashrender
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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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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @Carnival Boy
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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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              • C
                Carnival Boy
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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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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @Carnival Boy
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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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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                    last edited by Dashrender

                    @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

                    0_1461097948085_mag.JPG

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                    • dafyreD
                      dafyre @Dashrender
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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

                      0_1461097948085_mag.JPG

                      Find me something like that for news papers.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender
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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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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          All the "best" magazines.

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