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Just wondering, do you expect non-scammers to have the $10m?

The whole point of "network effect" strategy is to render this analysis untrue.

This is not a counterargument; it is, in fact, the definition of the problem.

The article is about moving beyond car ownership , not the absence of cars themselves.

Your note about the brand is so true that even their self-awareness lacks self-awareness, such as this note from the SF Symphony first-timer's guide: 6. What should I wear to a San…

With the original iPhone's marketing, the question implicitly being asked and answered was "how is the iPhone better than my feature phone / BlackBerry?" With the iPhone 6's market…

Barriers to entry such as wiki markup are rarely about whether a group of people are theoretically capable of doing something. The larger problem is that an article about [x] will …

In a public general-interest Internet conversation, when you reach the limit of your willingness to productively engage, it may be prudent to cease engaging.

Most already have. Looking backward, the primary competition has been web, not OS X. Looking forward, the ascent of mobile is only making it easier to deprioritise Windows.

Well, the Bug Reporter is now online; that's one system restored, 13 to go. At least they're making progress. https://bugreport.apple.com/

> if Microsoft ever tries to go with a Mac-style 'Gatekeeper' solution that requires you to buy applications only from the Windows Store. This bit of misinformation has now apparen…

> I never understood the reasoning behind this kind of social login. If you're dead set on being an ass [...] The purpose is to influence people who exist on the spectrum somewhere…

> It is equally plausible that the diagnostic center told the patient that results were negative, and the call to the mother was to reassure her and to the surgeon to cancel a pree…

These are obviously not actual denials given how carefully they're worded.

Because those few lines of boilerplate you would have to add exist in order to make explicit your stance on issues you probably don't even know exist, and their inclusion would com…

You seem to be implicitly thinking of 'marketing' as pejorative. I'd suggest instead that identifying an audience for a potential product is actually part of making an awesome prod…

We're all ignorant of the vast majority of facts relevant to almost anything. Comprehension is expensive and scarce. That being the case, simple extensions of good faith count for …

This comment is a great example of problem #3 from the article: nitpicking at wording instead of engaging with ideas.

> The mobile vendors have all gone with GC. It's a minor point, but Apple created ARC specifically as a streamlined reference counting alternative to GC, which was never used in iO…

These comments are revealing in themselves. Every system has bad actors. Open identification and criticism of those bad actors marks a robustly free society, not a weak one. Talk o…

Tying it to one platform only "doesn't make sense" in a generic and irrelevant pseudo-strategic sense. The reality is that "The Magazine" is one dude making something neat in the t…

All of the costs cited are rounding errors in comparison to the scarcity of good developers' time, especially developers capable of delivering product across iPhone / Android / web…