3/1/2023 0 Comments Funter meansOil Spills/pollution:penalties preventionĪN ACT ENTITLED "An Act relating to penalties for discharges of oil and other pollution violations and providing for an effective date."ĪN ACT ENTITLED "An Act relating to municipal regulation of trapping and providing for an effective date." Medicaid Optional Svcs & Cost ContainmentĪN ACT ENTITLED "An Act requiring the state medical assistance program to provide certain services relating to cost containment measures for the state medical assistance program relating to payment for adult dental services and providing for an effective date."ĪN ACT ENTITLED "An Act relating to aggravating factors considered at sentencing."Ī RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to marriage. It’s sad to see.AN ACT ENTITLED "An Act relating to contributions from permanent fund dividends to the general and permanent funds."Ĭhild Care Provider Collective BargainingĪN ACT ENTITLED "An Act allowing child care providers that receive state aid to organize and collectively bargain with the Department of Health and establishing the child care provider fund."ĪN ACT ENTITLED "An Act relating to education increasing the base student allocation and providing for an effective date."ĪN ACT ENTITLED "An Act relating to peer support counseling programs for law enforcement agencies, emergency service providers, and the Department of Corrections." But this site is replete with developers who anguish over every line of code but make only minimal effort to write or edit the few paragraphs that will have far more impact on their app’s success than its UI or functionality, opting instead to copy verbatim the halfassed, cheesy or nonsensical dreck from other failed developers’ MacUpdate app descriptions. Even in the developing world, it’s not hard to find a fluent or native English speaker to copyedit short marketing materials, even for free. Other major marketing mistakes illustrated here but commonly made by both native and non-native English-speaking developers are the use of unintelligible phrases, back-to-back dichotomous sentences, or counterproductive ideas about the product. Yet software developers commonly write multi-paragraph app descriptions that do everything except describe how their apps work. Why? Because there are dozens of other apps on MacUpdate that show and hide hidden files, mostly for free, and when looking for one that works a certain way (perhaps as a toggle switch, or from a menubar item), it’s a waste of time to download and try all the ones that can’t immediately be determined to meet your needs because they give no description, give a dreamy but meaningless bullsh1t marketing description (like this one), or simply make no sense (like this one).īelieve it or not, I try to take the developers’ perspective about this, but that just deepens the mystery because there’s no shortage of examples of how clear, concise, nonmarketing-speak information about HOW an app works (especially a new one) almost always does more to sell it than any other marketing factor except price. For instance, this one’s been listed all day long, but by midnight it had been downloaded only 86 times despite that it’s free. In their effort to interest consumers in their products, they happily employ the most stale and off-putting marketing-speak ad nauseam, in some cases while forgetting or ignoring that the opening in the marketplace that inspired them to create their app was caused by the market failure of a competing developer who used the same kind of obfuscating boilerplate marketing - because consumers hate having to go to the developer’s website or download and test an app just to lean how it works and whether it meets their needs. But some devs seem to purposely craft application descriptions that fancifully illustrate WHAT they do without indicating HOW they do it. Literally everyone wants to know HOW a product functions before they’ll consider buying it, and this applies equally for people considering whether to download and test drive freeware, too. When they write the description of their software for its post, why do so many developers refuse to explain HOW it works? How it does what it does is the most important characteristic of any app, and it’s what sets it apart from all other such software.
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