Archive for March, 2009
Friday, March 27th, 2009
Why developers choose your platform
At work people sometimes talk about things like market share and ease of development as the two key reasons that independent developers choose one platform over another. I think they forget that not all developers do the cold calculus of poring over Comscore numbers (which they probably don’t have a subscription to anyway) to figure […]
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Would I have been the publisher who declined JK Rowling?
The guy who passed up LeBron James?
The guy who failed to invest in Google?
I’ll be honest that I’m still not convinced of the value of GrandCentral to the general populace, even though they’ve been affirmed by Google’s purchase. The “one number for life” value has been solved by cross-carrier number roaming for mobile phones. The […]
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Getting to simplicity
Requires throwing yourself into the ridiculous first, and then slowly stepping back until you find your footing.
It’s kinda like testing testing where the quicksand borders land by jumping way in, confirming that you are indeed sinking, and then slowly stepping back towards land until you find somewhere you stop sinking. And maybe along the […]