North England to replace satanic mills with iPhone app factories Offical boosters for the North of England have been looking at iPhone development, and published a guide for entrepreneurial Northerners on how to get their apps noticed. Regional development body Northwest Vision and Media body tries to promote development of the digital economy up North, and reckons that iPhone application …
With high tech exports outside of London, this should enhance the UK's portfolio of economic growth opportunities and provide new alternatives to London and finance as the major earners.
The BBC's move of its future media technologies department to Salford Quays will help set the scene for this trend.
"But 90 per cent of iPhone and iPod Touch users are buying applications, surprisingly the latter buying more than the former"
Not surprising: could it be that iPod Touch users have paid less for their device and aren't committed to a monthly line rental, so they have more cash available to spend on apps?
What else would replace the tens of thousands of jobs lost in mining, steel works, shipbuilding and heavy industries but writing apps for £3 a pop, should keep yer average northerner and his family in clogs for years....
'caus obviously ex miners, steelworks, farms, labourers, welders et al are all going to make top notch coders
Sorry, but your Tyke credentials are in doubt.
I don't think there's any official spelling but it's:
baht = without
Nobody in any of the ridings would say "bar" for without.
And the gag is royally fucked up as far as I can see. If the body concerned covers the northwest then that would not include Ilkley or it's Moor which are both in west yorkshire, which is not the northwest by any traditional measure.
Personally, as a fellow Yorkshireman, I'd prefer the correct spelling of the anthem as "On Ilkla Moor baht 'at" :)
Of course, the joke doesn't match the content anyway....
Ilkla Moor is firmly situated in God's Own County of Yorksha - whereas Northwest Vision is all about stuff from the wrong side of the Pennines (from their About Us page: "Northwest Vision and Media works on behalf of the digital and creative industries in the Northwest to grow a world-class digital and creative economy within the region") and is supported by the Northwest Regional Development Agency!
Ah'll sithee...
Northwest Vision and Media, surely they cover Mancs, Scoucers and the like. Ilkley Moor however is on the proper side on the Pennines, and as every right thinking person knows the only good thing to come out of the other side of the Pennines was the road to Yorkshire.
Now where did I leave that pint of Old Peculiar ?
As any Yorkshireman knows Illkla Moor is in the West Riding of Yorkshire. That's what it was when I was born a little south and east of Illkley and attempts by the toffee nosed southerners to minimise and denigrate the heartland of England should be fought against at all costs.
Incidentally, a bar is a gate or gatehouse. York has some fine examples built into the walls. They were very useful for displaying the heads of non-Yorkshire troublemakers. Perhaps the practice could be reinstated?
p.s. could the grenade symbol be changed to a good old-fashioned Mills bomb? These funny yankee things don't really match with a .uk domain
The best way to make money from iWhatever apps is to create something original and useful that doesn't step on any of Apples copyrighted ideas, past or future and sell for 2.99.
Or, y'know, write a crappy puzzle game and punt it for 99p (one that relays any bank information found on the iWhatever back to you).
Alternatively, if you love Apple that much, why don't you just marry them? Bazinga!
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