Must admit my sympathy for Mr Milton was rather limited following the cashing out of his fraudulently inflated ... allegedly ... Nikola shares to set a real estate record in Utah buying a 2,670 acre ranch for a mere $32 million and change.
Article in the 2019 "Mansion Global" magazine (no, really) if you can stomach it, just search on 'milton "mansion global" utah'
Mind you looks like this is now forfeit per more recent articles.
And if a developer disputes the numbers can they legally force Unity to disclose their methodology to provide a full accounting for the per-install invoices?
I'm sure Unity will retreat behind the shield of "Proprietary trade secrets the disclosure of which would harm our business" but for that to fly I suspect that Unity would need to show why developers should trust their accounting and that might, possibly, be a hard sell.
Or might be a tool where developers refuse to pay unless there is a complete and transparent accounting of the invoice provided by Unity which, if done right, could cost Unity far in excess of the fees they're charging for the legal and accounting services that they'd need to provide a satisfactory justification for said invoice.
The other scuzzy angle to this, and allegedly / potentially the real reason Unity made the per install fee change?, is to offer to waive the new Runtime Fee if developers switch to Unity's own User Aquisition service, LevelPlay, instead of using a competetitor product, primarily AppLovin, thereby pulling all of that juicy user data in-house and using their dominant position to kneecap a competitive service. HT to Mobilegamer.biz
https://mobilegamer.biz/unity-is-offering-a-runtime-fee-waiver-if-you-switch-to-levelplay-as-it-tries-to-kill-applovin/
Not sure if "Nice business model, be a ... shame ... if something were to happen to it. Tell you what we'll make you an offer you really can't refuse" is strictly legal by tying a fee waiver to force your customers to use, and pay for?, another of your products, even in this day and age of end stage capitalism, but sure will be interesting to watch.
My bet is that Twixxer eventually rolls out an enhanced Mute with a bazillion confusing options that in the correct combination functions identically to the existing Block.
Followed immediately by a flood of browser extensions to autoset those options and put one-click blocking right back where it was
I feel that this statement
‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of ... '
needs some alternate completions
‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of Virginia Wolfe'
‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FAA. Actually he's terrified of the FAA as they could shut down SpaceX in a heartbeat. What was my point again?'
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Trev's Mansion
Must admit my sympathy for Mr Milton was rather limited following the cashing out of his fraudulently inflated ... allegedly ... Nikola shares to set a real estate record in Utah buying a 2,670 acre ranch for a mere $32 million and change. Article in the 2019 "Mansion Global" magazine (no, really) if you can stomach it, just search on 'milton "mansion global" utah' Mind you looks like this is now forfeit per more recent articles.
How is Unity counting game installs?
And if a developer disputes the numbers can they legally force Unity to disclose their methodology to provide a full accounting for the per-install invoices? I'm sure Unity will retreat behind the shield of "Proprietary trade secrets the disclosure of which would harm our business" but for that to fly I suspect that Unity would need to show why developers should trust their accounting and that might, possibly, be a hard sell. Or might be a tool where developers refuse to pay unless there is a complete and transparent accounting of the invoice provided by Unity which, if done right, could cost Unity far in excess of the fees they're charging for the legal and accounting services that they'd need to provide a satisfactory justification for said invoice.
LevelPlay vs AppLovin'
The other scuzzy angle to this, and allegedly / potentially the real reason Unity made the per install fee change?, is to offer to waive the new Runtime Fee if developers switch to Unity's own User Aquisition service, LevelPlay, instead of using a competetitor product, primarily AppLovin, thereby pulling all of that juicy user data in-house and using their dominant position to kneecap a competitive service. HT to Mobilegamer.biz https://mobilegamer.biz/unity-is-offering-a-runtime-fee-waiver-if-you-switch-to-levelplay-as-it-tries-to-kill-applovin/ Not sure if "Nice business model, be a ... shame ... if something were to happen to it. Tell you what we'll make you an offer you really can't refuse" is strictly legal by tying a fee waiver to force your customers to use, and pay for?, another of your products, even in this day and age of end stage capitalism, but sure will be interesting to watch.
Extreme Super Mute!
My bet is that Twixxer eventually rolls out an enhanced Mute with a bazillion confusing options that in the correct combination functions identically to the existing Block. Followed immediately by a flood of browser extensions to autoset those options and put one-click blocking right back where it was
Defund @Twitter
... Checks estimated financials since Elon took over ... Excellent work Mr Musk, carry on.
New Elon meme?
I feel that this statement ‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of ... ' needs some alternate completions ‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of Virginia Wolfe' ‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FAA. Actually he's terrified of the FAA as they could shut down SpaceX in a heartbeat. What was my point again?'