"Geothermal is currently at 533.8MW (of which 81.1MW is from the innovative wellheads technology raising geothermal capacity to about 32% of the total installed capacity. Our total thermal capacity is 253.5MW while wind comprises 25.5MW.
Following the full operationalization of the 280MW Geothermal plant in Olkaria, the national electricity consumption by mode 47% geothermal, 39% hydro, 13% thermal and 1% wind."
Is it fair/unfair to chalk this down to plain objectivism? That the source of money isnt that important as long as it gives me a chance to Change The World™..?
You're right, it doesn't matter. Thirty years ago it didn't matter, there was no such thing as criminalizing the source of money before then. This is a fake stigma, you don't have to rationalize it either.
Unparalleled economic growth continued to happen because it didn't matter to anyone of importance and status.
Whatever fake stigmas were shoved down the throats of the morally subscribed underclass only serve to keep them squabbling and maintaining the social and economic order which has always been here.
It's supposed to be a long-term purchase, which is how they will explain low sales volume. But this makes it hard when they'll want to release a better version of the phone. Or not.
Not sure though about their long-term pricing strategy.
There's been a debate for a while now about this. Clay Shirky, Walter Isaacson, Jakob Nielsen, Norman Hardy, Kevin Kelley and others have expressed arguments for and against(mostly for) micropayments.
But there's yet to be a success story, most early implementations failed(BitPass, Ezcash, Peppercoin) but that was before cryptocurrencies. Now there's a new crop(Steemit, 21.co?, etc) that are trying again. Interesting to see how this will all pan out.
By 'better than free', are you referring to this[1] by Kevin Kelly.
To quote from it:When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.
And goes ahead to list 8 qualities of what can be sellable once distribution is no longer the value-getter.
[1] http://kk.org/thetechnium/better-than-fre/
I think WhatsApp is where Twitter was during their Ascend-to-protocol Vs Just-push-Ads phase[1], only that WA is dead-set on not going down the Ad route.
IMO their options are whether to become an app platform for businesses(Service delivery, payments, shopping) or to become a user-data source for FB.
KIM that they are naturally competing with IG & FB.com in generating revenue for FB Inc and subscription isn't working for them(mostly because of almost zero app-buying & digital payments culture in places where WA is popular).
Following the full operationalization of the 280MW Geothermal plant in Olkaria, the national electricity consumption by mode 47% geothermal, 39% hydro, 13% thermal and 1% wind."
Source: Kengen.co.ke