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by w4 11y ago
Ah, gotcha. I misunderstood what you meant. You can definitely offer limited services and advertising. You just have to be very careful not to engage in any activities the state might construe as creating an agency relationship, or that are
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by w4 11y ago
> Sure you can. I can quit claim my house over to you with no regulations impacting me at all... if you think that it is illegal to bypass the processes, then you are too caught up in the processes. You're talking about something
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by w4 11y ago
> Might be possible to do an end-run via the same mechanisms that allow "for sale by owner". I can't speak universally for every state (there's 50 different sets of regulations, after all), but no. The carve out for
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by w4 11y ago
Of course - you can totally offer discounts. Hence Redfin's existence. The key, however, is that you have to operate within the existing licensing law. You can't just act as a low-cost intermediary. This makes any innovation surpr
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by w4 11y ago
> Uber, AirBnB redux. Provide a service that people want more than one built on cronyism-type relations between entrenched industry and gov't Not trying to be a debby-downer here (I'd love to see innovation in the industry),
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by w4 11y ago
This is all a great idea - but state laws wouldn't permit it (I work in the industry). Most of the features you described, and the fee structure associated with them, would be in violation of real estate licensing laws. Hence why no on
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by w4 11y ago
> The one good side effect is that private investors are taking all of the risk. If there is an adjustment in valuations across the industry, it should not effect the public markets the way it did in 2000. I'm not so confident abo
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by w4 11y ago
"Clean Build Folder" is basically the "turn it off, then turn it back on" of Xcode. Almost anytime you get a weird compiler error on a project that compiled fine moments ago, it's solved by "Clean Build Folder.
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by w4 11y ago
You can get a refund for your purchase at the link he provided. No harm, no foul.
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by w4 11y ago
> This is like kicking kittens and then announcing to the world that you're going to stop kicking kittens. Then why kick kittens in the first place? Sure. That having been said, people do things all the time without realizing how
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by w4 11y ago
Seriously. This move makes sense without any conspiracy theories. Just look at his other recent blog post about Peace: http://www.marco.org/2015/09/17/why-peace-blocks-deck-ads It looks like he just felt unco
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by w4 11y ago
Fair enough - maybe personally reliant was a bit strong. :) I suspect his own income was less of a concern than his friends' incomes anyways, given he's taking down what is likely a six figure (or seven, over time) app.
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by w4 11y ago
Right...but nothing about Marco's statement suggests anything besides, "It turns out I feel really weird about making an ad blocker, and there isn't any way I can make an ad blocker that works in a way that doesn't make
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by w4 11y ago
> If I had to guess, I would point the finger at Ghostery causing this. Lifehacker wrote that Ghostery sells some data to marketers, so perhaps the approach taken with the app interferes with Ghosterys model Doubtful that's the ca
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by w4 11y ago
> Letting the VC industry choose the preface is not ideal This actually touches on an important point. The whole reason that, "No no, that's not a real business," gets bandied around is because it benefits VCs. If founde
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by w4 11y ago
Not disagreeing with you in the slightest, but how about just calling them all "businesses" and adding the qualifier "VC-funded" if they've taken funding? It makes more sense to qualify based on VC funding, rather t
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by w4 11y ago
Nope, it hasn't gotten better. I don't think I've been quoted precisely any time I've spoken with a reporter. The "quote" is usually the gist of what I said, so it's not a big deal, but sometimes the parap
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by w4 11y ago
> need to have at least a masters degree to ensure a middle class lifestyle is driving the tuition explosion This is actually a function of student loans. Because higher education is accessible to a much larger portion of the populatio
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by w4 11y ago
I can't wait for Bloomberg's next expose, "Water May Be Wet." But seriously, how can this be a surprise to anyone? Easy credit = increased demand (since people who otherwise would be unable to pay for the good can now af
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by w4 11y ago
They've had a monetization strategy in place for some time: sharing user data with credit card companies, and referral fees from lenders.
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by w4 11y ago
> It's probably better to be rid of "customers" like this sooner rather than later. Agreed. This is more or less an example of patio11's "pathological customer": they won't or lack the resources to pa
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by w4 11y ago
Well look at that - good on Apple for correcting course and doing the right thing.
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by w4 11y ago
> 4 albums a year And that would be an incredibly productive artist. Most artists release something like 1 album every 1-2 years, at best.
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by w4 11y ago
> don't forget that in apple music people only can listen for the sone they liked once and can not select a song they want to play, thus forcing them to purchase if they really like the song What? This isn't in the least bit
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by w4 11y ago
Even if users grouse about it, they seem to prefer it versus a big one time upfront purchase based on their usage/purchase patterns. Of course, what they'd probably really prefer is a low one time upfront purchase, but that&#x27
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by w4 11y ago
You're missing the main thrust of the hypothetical (arguments about how "amazing" the offer is aside): > Apple simultaneously announces a 3 month free trial for all App Store accounts, and states that it will be making no
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by w4 11y ago
> Can you explain why that wouldn't be a great deal for app developers? I develop iOS apps, and I'd love it if apple moved to a pay for use model. While it may be the case that pay-per-use would be a great model for developer
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by w4 11y ago
> Software developers aren't immune to piracy's effects, either. Whether we like it or not, we're quickly shifting into a world where art is only viable as a labor of love. Everything being digital means copying is free.
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by w4 11y ago
Then it's back to the web (or album sales and touring in Swift's case).
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by w4 11y ago
Right - and now further imagine that your app is actually making decent money before the introduction of the subscription model (like Taylor Swift does off records). How pleased with this arrangement are you going to be? I'd posit not

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