kunaalarya

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by kunaalarya 13y ago
Candy Crush Saga, Papa Pear Saga, Bubble Witch Saga, Fruit Heroes Saga are all pretty huge games. It's clear that Saga is part of King's brand. Games will come out and try to use that same name style to reap the benefits. Jewel Bl
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by kunaalarya 13y ago
I've taken UberX to the airport and it's been $5 over the cost of a cab when I take a cab. The reason Uber black car costs $65 (not sure if they charge more from Presidio) is because it is still cheaper than taking a black car li
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by kunaalarya 13y ago
Probably the reason why: He has a word puzzle game, and that's the typical demographic for those games.
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Payments by Apple is Coming(medium.com)
3 points by kunaalarya 13y ago|0 comments
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How GungHo and Supercell's Promo Partnership Led To A Buyout(medium.com)
1 points by kunaalarya 13y ago|0 comments
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Pay-Per-Install Market is Going to Get Crazy(medium.com)
1 points by kunaalarya 13y ago|0 comments
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by kunaalarya 13y ago
even better - possibly a Chrome app that comes up when you open a new page. Similar to the Currently Chrome app.
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
Disagree. IAP in games can be used to offer premium fun stuff that users want to pay for like boosts, or getting ahead in the game. Nothing wrong with it, as shown in the massive success of games with IAP. Majority of games allow you to ear
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Apple pulls app discovery app, Appgratis(pocketgamer.biz)
2 points by kunaalarya 14y ago|0 comments
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
It's crazy how similar this is for App of the Day's for apps to get to the top of the app store.
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
I'd agree if Instagram was widely used for artwork, but it isn't. If Instagram had pictures like Flickr has, then I'd see the comparison
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
They typically meet at restaurants (or a lot of times, hotel rooms) to discuss deals/potential deals, as being in the HQ can scare employees (who may not be comfortable with selling). It's much easier to get recognized in the HQ of a tech
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
I would assume 99% of users install iBooks on their iPad. It's not that hard to download it.
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
You don't have to install software. It's standard on a mac, and photo software is standard on a PC.
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
There's other reasons for the drop outside of company performance. This is all based on stock prices and nothing fundamentally has changed. Apple is cheap in comparison to other related companies. Especially with $120B+ in the bank - expect
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
They can make a capable and well specced Nexus 4 for $349, but they're not making any money off of it, which doesn't make it economically sustainable in the long term. It's the same thing with the Nexus tablets. They're selling them so chea
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
For saving PDFs, you can save all of them to iBooks and it will be under a PDF category there. For saving pictures, any image retrieval app works. For macs, Image Capture is standard and it will take images off any phone. The iPhone/iPad is
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
I remember reading that Google wanted more Google branding. The way Apple wanted to go was make it an Apple product supported by Google. Google wanted it to be a Google product integrated into Apple. Apple wasn't having it and took this rou
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
I think there's a significant difference between the F2P games by Zynga and what not, where you play very poorly compared to people who spend. Vs typical arcade games, where it's just more fun and a bit easier. But you can still have tons o
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
I would add another one with builder types of games. You can go about the game very slowly without IAP, or have fun and build things quite rapidly with IAP. Triple Town falls in this category. IAP becomes a continuous purchase. In contrast
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
Exactly. Check out Jetpack Joyride on iOS or Android to get an idea of what the business model looks like.
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
I believe he's talking about individual games having long term retention for passionate players. Mojang has that with the "old model" of creating multiple titles for its community. He's predicting that Minecraft won't be played in a few yea
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
I believe he meant that he wishes android would have a universal home button.
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
you want an...android?
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
Lyft < UberX Haven't tried UberTAXI yet to know, but I would expect it to be in the middle.
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
Lyft now automatically includes $2 gratuity, fyi. Still cheaper by 10-15%.
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
As someone who lived in Toronto and moved to SF, it's a different scenario. Taxis in Toronto are plentiful, and there are almost always taxis available - just not where you want them so it fits. In SF it's different - there's not enough and
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
Yeah - definitely a couple years. They're in early testing right now. It was just "proved" through computer simulations a few months ago.
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Ask HN: Is there demand for Canadian/tech meetups in SV?
2 points by kunaalarya 14y ago|0 comments
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by kunaalarya 14y ago
Well there's interesting ways to do that with Facebook though. A la you can't start selling large amounts of goods unless you have x number of likes on your page. Same thing, on the user side. You can only buy $10 worth of credits if you ha

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