But the design philosophy--hefty processing power and frugal power use--are in concert with Apple's directions.
It called for hefty surcharges for processing debit cards to be outlawed.
The general mining process requires massive processing power and incurs hefty energy costs.
Earlier this year, Google brought its mobile anticipatory compute engine to the iOS platform, giving iPhone users the chance to see how always-on integrated Google services can work at the application layer, though the battery costs from background processing impose hefty power costs.
After all, the slim white console didn't have the kind of processing horsepower boasted by heftier consoles hawked by Microsoft and Sony.
U.S. carriers, in contrast, seem to only tolerate mobile payments by charging a hefty margin on every transaction they are processing, making it only somewhat appealing for merchants.
As of October, merchants whose customers demand refunds of as little as 1% of sales using a credit card face hefty fines and possible expulsion from the card processing network, a fatal blow for an Internet retailer.
Once the trucks reach the processing plants, the government, too, collects a hefty tax, nearly double that of the Taliban, Mr. Zaman said, though there was no way to verify the claim.
Ning will be taking a hefty chunk of the revenue from each gift: after PayPal's processing fees, half will go to Ning, and the other half will go to the network creator who sold the gift.
Facebook, however, takes a hefty 6.9% cut of money raised, plus a 30-cent credit card processing fee.
