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"you do not fuck up a crowd-funded project" Oculus raised $75M after their Kickstarter. Crowd-funding was a stepping stone. And it remains to be seen whether

• a1a 13y ago
  Google did fuck up Android (privacy wise). (1) Requirement of a Google account (i.e. forced correlation of your phone with youtube, google searches, google analytics, google ... ), (2) Ever checked those privileges on the default applications - that you can't disable or remove? Why are those closed-source by the way?, (3) Search the web for more examples. Either way, I agree that I made an assumption - but - this is kinda related: http://bgr.com/2014/03/06/facebook-android-app-permissions/ http://bgr.com/2014/03/06/facebook-android-app-permissions/ Crowd funding is not only about money. Your funders also invest emotions into the project. I am mad, I think others will be as well. To quote Notch[1]: "And I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition." [1] http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-the-world/ http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-...