Evan Wiener Online » Uncategorized http://www.evanwiener.com Web User Experience Design Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:20:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Apple stories must get some traffic http://www.evanwiener.com/2011/12/29/apple-stories/ http://www.evanwiener.com/2011/12/29/apple-stories/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:10:30 +0000 EvanWiener http://www.evanwiener.com/?p=1114 Eight of the ten most-viewed corporate stories on WSJ.com for the year were about Apple, from product launches that stoked frenzy to the somber news of co-founder Steve Jobs’s death.

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]]> http://www.evanwiener.com/2011/12/01/1057/feed/ 0 Android is free and open… Last year’s Android http://www.evanwiener.com/2011/10/03/android-is-free-and-open-last-years-android/ http://www.evanwiener.com/2011/10/03/android-is-free-and-open-last-years-android/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:40:16 +0000 EvanWiener http://www.evanwiener.com/?p=1038 So with Amazon using 2.3 for Kindle Fire, I guess Google will market Honeycomb and future Android releases (ice cream?) against this by choosing who gets it first. Was Honeycomb the end of making the latest Android version free and open? You want free and open, you get last year’s version?

http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/28/editorial-amazon-android-google/

]]> http://www.evanwiener.com/2011/10/03/android-is-free-and-open-last-years-android/feed/ 0 Is a federal online sales tax inevitable? http://www.evanwiener.com/2011/09/24/is-a-federal-online-sales-tax-inevitable/ http://www.evanwiener.com/2011/09/24/is-a-federal-online-sales-tax-inevitable/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:01:43 +0000 EvanWiener http://www.evanwiener.com/?p=1030 Read full article →]]> http://allthingsd.com/20110923/amazon-wins-reprieve-on-california-tax-in-exchange-for-jobs/

It just occurred to me: Amazon is a sales tax haven, a virtual Delaware, and the cost of Amazon Prime is easily justified for some state residents by saving sales tax on the price of goods, and the savings increase as you increase your purchases.

A standardized online sales tax is inevitable with so many sales moving online and products moving state (and city) lines overnight. A website has to code for all 50 states’ sales taxes and maintain the fluctuations on that. How would it work if I bought something on Amazon in Philadelphia? Is it an extra 1%, or is it just at the state level? So every citizen in cities will save city sales taxes by buying online, or you have to maintain the city-wide fluctuating data too. That’s an extra website labor cost. More data to maintain and a cost of doing business, which has to get passed on to consumers and we’re down the spiral of who always pays more in the end.

Think outside the U.S. and things get increasingly more complex.

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