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Quick question. When you signed up to your say 20meg broadband contract, did the contract exclude certain services - YouTube, amazon Prime, Netflix?

New in the sense that GoPro has opened access to them - we ride, climb, fall, swim from the persons perspective. I'd wager their perennial popularity on the youtubes drives interes…

Apple already implements a solution for free trial of apps. They're called Newsstand apps - and sadly, only available to Newsstand publishers. Newsstand allows a free trial period.…

Thanks for jumping in. It's great to get 'the other side'. That said, where I checking out, my eye gravitates toward that big red 'Continue Checkout' button, not the fact that I'm …

Excellent point. But it would screw (even further) with their carrier relations. The carriers hate iMessage and push notifications as it is.

Really nice site and execution. One of the real challenges with Newsstand apps is the conversion of users (downloaded the app) to paying subscribers (monthly, annually). I've seen …

Asides from my ever expanding girth, I've never been described as a whale! It all ads up...from $1,500 for TV sub, plus biz travel with hotel tonight, taxi's here and there, netfli…

Is the "developer community energized"?

It is what it is. A great demonstration of developer productivity. And the stack mob API is free.

I was wondering why there are so many dashboard cams. Answer: from the NYTimes "Some of the numerous videos that quickly emerged of the incident highlighted a distinctly Russian ph…

Both arguments are correct - mobile is the future of customer engagement, and persistent engagement in mobile apps is hard. It’s especially hard because the tools we use in the phy…

I hear what you're saying but in my family (Irish so sample size is huge) Dad, my father in-law, my kids (<5), two teenage nieces (admittedly the have access to a Mac, but its prob…

Great advice. Especially documentation: that is your marketing at scale.

Always fascinating to go back in time. Have a look at Twilio http://web.archive.org/web/20081216031744/http://www.twilio.... What's interesting is the consistency of message to thi…

And if you want to see what that looks like from a Fedex angle... http://www.cultofmac.com/192038/look-at-all-these-iphone-5s-...

It's a great validation of developing and iterating the business initially with the small 'mom & pop' business to the point where traction allows you capture the really massive cus…

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