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by phil 14y ago
Consider inspecting the MAS receipt and issuing them a license in your own scheme if you are leaving. At least then you get to keep your customers.
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by phil 14y ago
The design of this site is really impressive. If you're working on a web product you should be taking notes. Probably the #1 problem for a brand new site offering financial advice is to establish credibility. Lots of past entrants did a lou
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by phil 14y ago
The funny thing is, they probably should have priced lower. If you look at their rank history on Mac and iOS, they saw big grossing rank bumps the few times they dropped the price. Maybe that's just a short-term effect (yay, sale!), but bas
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by phil 14y ago
Mac app had a run rate of over $1m its first six months, per this interview: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-26/tech/30036420... Who knows what was happening internally, but on the surface: strong team of 5, $1-1.5m revenue th
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by phil 14y ago
1) Maybe I am just slow, but it would probably take me more than 12 weeks to create an app like this. Well designed mobile stuff can be deceptively time consuming. 2) http://mint.com
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by phil 14y ago
Here's a chart of their Canada rankings: http://www.appannie.com/app/ios/budget-with-back-in-black/ra... Looks like they only do well in English-speaking markets, so they'll mostly live and die by their US performance. So it's more accura
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by phil 14y ago
http://books.google.com/books/about/Programming_in_MacScheme...
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by phil 14y ago
This is a 1994 patent. Looks like it should be expiring in Nov. Better hurry up with that suit, patent troll!
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by phil 14y ago
Delusional.
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by phil 14y ago
The fascinating thing about Microsoft today is they find themselves in such a strategically desperate position that they are beginning to change that attitude.
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by phil 14y ago
What are you using now? Do you like it?
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by phil 14y ago
I don't understand the hate in the comments. Two things: 1) The simplest applications are still hard to polish this much. In fact, simple things can often hide some of the hardest design choices. 2) Three years ago, Twitter apps were the UI
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by phil 14y ago
I'm pretty sure the answer to your question is yes. Typically, if you're in a position where you'll often have material non-public info you need to create a trading plan in advance, or otherwise remove your ability to trade the company base
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by phil 14y ago
Better yet, avoid modal dialogs.
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by phil 14y ago
Archive.org's donation page is here: http://archive.org/donate/index.php
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Apple announces 2012 Design Award winners(news.cnet.com)
8 points by phil 14y ago|0 comments
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by phil 14y ago
Camera+ has not always been $0.99, and it has in-app purchases. A revenue estimate that doesn't take those into account is going to be way off.
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by phil 14y ago
These guys are doing such awesome stuff. I like eating meat, but would love to live in a world where Big Macs are made from vegetable protein and all meat is raised locally/humanely and fed a healthy diet.
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How many apps are in the Top 200?(philkast.com)
3 points by phil 14y ago|0 comments
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by phil 14y ago
Wonder if some day they'll do the same thing to Facebook as well, since you auth in Safari if the FB app is not installed and you can buy ads on the FB site.
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by phil 14y ago
It's often been necessary -- most recently, iPad apps needed to be built against a new version of the SDK to correctly use 2x graphics on the new iPad's high-res screen.
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by phil 14y ago
It's not even clear that you have to do it right.
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by phil 14y ago
This is such a great deck. Unless you're working on a photo sharing app, this slide might offer more generally useful advice: http://speakerdeck.com/u/mikeyk/p/secrets-to-lightning-fast-...
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by phil 14y ago
Is there an MVNO yet that's not just barely scraping along? They're in a lousy bargaining position and most seem to just get crushed.
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by phil 14y ago
...according to random pundit trying to get attention at industry conference.
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by phil 14y ago
Did Instagram v1 had this feature? They added high-res photos in v2 and the early upload seems like maybe an attempt not to have the app start feeling much much slower.
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by phil 14y ago
Flat organization doesn't mean you can't hire an office manager, it just means the office manager doesn't have a boss either.
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by phil 14y ago
The crazy thing is the #4 paid app is this violent fantasy about shooting people with a sniper rifle and that's apparently OK: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clear-vision-17+/id500116670?... The #5 paid app is a scam designed to confuse (
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by phil 14y ago
Hipstamatic lacked sharing, at least when Instagram came out. That was the thing that set Instagram apart -- it did this popular thing with photos on your iPhone but bolted sharing on.
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by phil 14y ago
Look, I know the rules. That's why I leave the comma out.

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