xinsight

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by xinsight 15y ago
I wish I knew where customers came from, but the app Store and Android Market are both black boxes. I'm sure some people find apps from within the store (e.g. searching for "swedish") - but I expect most to come from youtube (where there ar
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by xinsight 15y ago
I'd also like to see Android thrive (mainly to keep Apple from behaving badly) and you make a good point that Android is steadily moving into the mainstream. But it will be a challenge for Google to shake the impression that Android users a
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by xinsight 15y ago
Thanks for the encouragement. I was going to release a free version on Android before writing up my experiences. I thought the liberal return policy on Android would eliminate the need for "lite" apps - but the return window is only 15 minu
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by xinsight 15y ago
It's called GoSwedish - a friendly introduction to learning Swedish. http://xinsight.ca/goswedish/ Findability within the Market might also be a factor. A search for "swedish" in the App Store, and it's on the first screen. But it's quite
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by xinsight 15y ago
I ported an iOS app to Android. I've sold three (!!) copies while in that same period, the iOS version has sold about 300. I dropped the price from $5 down to $2 over easter and still didn't sell a single copy during the sale. The two apps
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by xinsight 15y ago
Thoughtful approach on app pricing and customer selection. The point that resonated with recent experiences was this one: "How much effort do I really want to devote to satisfying people who are unable or extremely unlikely to pay for anyth
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by xinsight 16y ago
I'm not sure if the competition between developers is the biggest problem in the Android Market. What makes it hard seems to be a combination of the number of people using the Market and how willing they are are spend money. From my limited
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by xinsight 16y ago
I only experience them on government and bank websites. I can see how some naïve users might want the extra-confirmation that they are cancelling this action – but I there's not reason for them to be visually similar and positioned almost n
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by xinsight 16y ago
I use this frequently. Unfortunately it doesn't work with Photoshop.
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by xinsight 16y ago
> It's the two-tap "upload to youtube/vimeo/facebook" that did them in. Great point. For sharing, connecting to a computer via USB isn't nearly as nice as tapping a couple of buttons. (But Flip was easier to point and shoot. No hunting
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by xinsight 16y ago
I agree, they could have gone in a lot of directions with an inexpensive camera. I guess the problem was that Cisco wanted the mainstream market - and they weren't going to go after the various niche markets like: timelapses, infrared, fast
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by xinsight 16y ago
Did the HD video capability of mobile phones (e.g. iPhone 4) kill the Flip? If so, this has happened before; Pure Digital's first product was a cheap point-and-shoot camera that you'd take in for processing, but it was also beaten by the ri
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by xinsight 16y ago
I'd prefer to just get rid of DST.
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by xinsight 16y ago
One of the last things he did in office was move it 2 weeks earlier. Canada followed along and now North America is out of sync with most other countries.
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by xinsight 16y ago
The classic version of this is: http://availableincanada.com/
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by xinsight 16y ago
The problem is often that the work is not clearly defined. Sitting down and thinking about the project, what the client asked for vs. what they really need, listing the unknowns, doing some tests to validate an approach... this can take a l
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by xinsight 16y ago
I've used Apple's in-app purchase system and it has sone serious limitations. First, it's limited to about 3000 SKUs. Second, there is no way to automatically import (or update) the product information. So, from a technical perspective, Ama
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by xinsight 16y ago
I'm sure the author means well, but I doubt this passive approach (where everyone else has to fix the problem) combined with the irritating, holier-than-thou tone will get much traction. A little greasemonkey script to add outline, along wi
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by xinsight 16y ago
You left out the most important and confusing step: Running the app. That requires not clicking on the icon you see in the dmg folder, but opening the applications folder and scanning all the apps looking for the unfamiliar one that was j
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by xinsight 16y ago
The biggest problem with the North American banking system is the reliance on the antiquated cheque system. In the EU I can send money to any other EU bank account quickly with little or no fee. You can pay bills and send money - and no nee
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by xinsight 16y ago
Sure, if you live 30km from where you work, you probably aren't going to ride a bike (or walk, or take transit). If you lived <5km, you'd waste less time commuting. re: rain - sounds like rain gear is important. So are fenders. re: show
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by xinsight 16y ago
Looks like an elegant app for data collection. As for your methodology, I'm wondering how much you'll be able to conclude. For example, there will probably be a high correlation of people are relaxed and in a park, but does that mean that p
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by xinsight 16y ago
Yes, but obvious to hackers = high possibility of prior art
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by xinsight 16y ago
It's amusing that timing attacks work essentially like those often-mocked Hollywood movies where the computer/hacker cracks the password one character at a time.
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by xinsight 16y ago
Sure, take time to gather evidence, work with authorities and document the crime. But there is no good reason to leave those apps in the top seller lists once they've discovered the problem.
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by xinsight 16y ago
The content is also quite tight on an iPad. (e.g. The mockup logo is touching the left side of the screen, or is maybe chopped by 1px.) Also, the examples are blank for me. (not sure if that is an iPad or general problem.)
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by xinsight 16y ago
A perl script running via cgi could do it, no?
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by xinsight 16y ago
There's an interesting edge condition i ean into during user testing. If you created a paypal account in the past, associated your credit card with it and then forgot how to access it - you cannot pay with your credit card. Paypal forces yo
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by xinsight 16y ago
Indeed. If you use shared web hosting (like Bluehost) there are often hundreds of other websites running on the same server. It is trivial to write a script that runs with the permissions of the webserver to snoop other websites' files. Rea
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by xinsight 16y ago
Sorry, my tone might have been off. What I meant was: Buckwheat pancakes don't have glutin and are amazing. If you don't know about them, give 'em a try!

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