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Comment #13764979
Oxford, UK | Wayin | Senior Software Engineer | ONSITE, https://www.wayin.com Wayin is a campaign management platform for marketers and agencies, helping them build consumer facing…
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Comment #13547630
Wayin | Senior Software Engineer | Oxford, UK | ONSITE, https://www.wayin.com Wayin is a campaign management platform for marketers and agencies, helping them build consumer facing…
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Comment #4814298
It's actually a very clever way to seed access to their honeypot.
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Comment #3933435
The choice of Stellenbosch in South Africa as an example is perhaps not ideal. While SA may be a third world country in parts, it is very "first-world" in others and has a GDP grea…
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Comment #2542650
Speaking as a South African, you do not want to go to prison there. People try to avoid it at all costs. Corruption is rife, and reports have surfaced of guards selling sexual acce…
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Comment #2228204
Just 4-5 years ago most Telco's were building portals and walled gardens where they were licensing the content themselves (or even had teams creating it in house) and selling it in…
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Comment #2228176
You've missed the point. Apple is providing access to hundreds of millions of potential customers who can purchase your product in a frictionless manner. The people on this platfor…
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Comment #2228122
I wasn't arguing that Apple won't do it, just that they would be even more crazy to try this for SaaS than for content subscriptions. It's one thing to charge 30% for when someone …
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Comment #2226991
I'm starting to see a whole bunch of posts/comments about people reacting to losing 30% of their SaaS software revenue but no one seems to be calling out the Apple contract specifi…
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Comment #2225866
It's simply due to the regional monopolies the telcos and cable cos have in the US. If you had open competition it might go something like what happened in the UK. Bandwidth was pr…
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Comment #2199849
It's going to be pretty interesting watching this play out. But Apple and Android have an unfair advantage right now...apps, and lots of them. If you've got an iOS or Android phone…
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Comment #1931406
I don't agree. I can show you some form based screens where a non-technical user can create some content and publish it fair easier and quicker than using an in-context editing app…
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Comment #1931378
I think we're mixing requirements here. Use case 1: I need to create a new page and for many corporate sites, each new page is different than the next for the majority of the body …
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Comment #1931356
Apologies for the delay in reply, quite busy at the moment. A couple important points to address from your comment. That site only has a few screenshots taken from the UI, so unfor…
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Comment #1925523
(Disclosure, I worked on this product in a previous life) So this is an enterprise CMS example, but the UI did get some pretty decent feedback from customers. Have a look at http:/…
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Comment #1867210
Love the sentiment, but I'm not sure they're going about it in the right way. Of course any attention and funding is better than none, but instead of getting McKinsey to advise som…
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Comment #1634207
At least the V4 loads way quicker than the previous site, I might actually use it more now.