Its funny that the game in the opening of "Sight", released 10 months ago, is similar to one they had at Google IO this year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqOluB4e-q4
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2 Suggestions:
1. A way to control which emails this gets attached to. If I'm emailing a client, I don't want them to ever feel I'm too busy to be contacted.
2. Allow for other measurements. In the same way most phones have a DND button, I would be great to have a manual override for days I'm busy. Also for me it would make more sense to measure how busy my calendar is vs my inbox.
Additional variation: It might be interesting to post an average response time to expect vs ples/tol/unb.
I don't know about the first one, but at Google IO they announced they were getting all of their partners (major carriers & hardware manufacturers) to agree to support any new device with software updates for 18 months. They hinted it would be required to be a Google certified device.
Nice logo and clearly most people like it, there are always some haters.
I grow raspberries every year and there are wide variety outside of the sterile and often flavorless red that we see in grocery stores. http://tinyurl.com/5wyewjg
It seems odd to me, for years developers have been one of the few groups of people that could publish something and not have to pay the "gatekeepers" and actually have a shot at success. Finally after years of having to deal with the publishing, music and movie cartels; writers, bands and indie movie producers can reach the world without having permission to do so. However somehow we (software devs) have gotten into a position where we are beholden to 3 companies (Apple, Google & Microsoft) if we want widespread access to a mainstream audience. For that privilege we have to pay 30% for these companies to host a few megabytes of program files and they tell us that its breaking even. For 99 cent apps I can believe that, but I write applications for small businesses and those apps are worth way more than 99 cents. There is a big difference in 30% of 99$ vs 99 cents.
I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that its going to have the following effects (some good, some bad):
1. Software prices are going to go up for any app that is more serious than a fart app.
2. Web apps are going to become more mainstream for small businesses. Which means...
3. SaaS is going to become more mainstream, because I don't want to run a web service and not get a monthly payment for it.
Apple has done a number of good things for consumers in this industry, too bad they felt they had to screw developers over in the process.
Can anybody that is in or has been through YC answer these questions:
How difficult and costly is it to find a place in SF for 3 months? It seems like a large part of the YC money would get used up for the founders basic living expenses.
Do most YC company founders go in debt / use savings / use most of the YC money, to cover personal expenses while they do this?
Most new founders don't live in San Francisco. YC encourages you, and rightly so, to live in and around Mountain View, where rent is much, much cheaper than the city.
Apple went from being a company with niche product and small market share (that I loved) to a worldwide juggernaut that many thought would save us from the anti-consumer duopoly we have with AT&T and Verizon. While we did end up with better phones and software, developers just answer to a new master. While I find the closed model of iOS disagreeable and anti-consumer, what is worse is that Apple is taking the closed model of iOS and spreading it like a virus into the Mac. And since Apple, the company beloved by “all” can do it, it clears the way for everyone else.
So no, as bad as the current duopoly is, I don’t think Apple becoming a carrier will make it any better.
