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Can you explain why you would suggest CouchDB? Of course, it seems to be a great project. Nevertheless, it has no built-in support for publishing and subscribing, and real-time not…

Independently, without seeing this thread, I had already posted this today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8563103 I would definitely participate as a contributer, if it's op…

100% agreed. Consider this to prevent the lock-in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8563103

Well, it is. Just like Meteor. There are dozens of possibilities how you could do it nowadays. You can even use your own Node.js server with WebSockets, use CouchDB, etc. But nothi…

Maybe Meteor would work as well. But they don't have any client libraries ready, in contrast to Couchbase.

Firebase is an awesome service. But if you want to build your products around Firebase and their API, you need reliability and guaranteed support for the future. As with any commer…

Okay, skobbler has now published an update for its Android app where the "Scout by TeleNav" brand is introduced.

Well, skobbler did all this for iOS and Android. And TeleNav bought skobbler for $24M in January [1] -- so it's obvious why TeleNav might be able to do this now. But will skobbler …

90% of people write DropBox, as well ;)

You can still count clicks without associating it with the user who clicked. Anyway, the "doesn't track you" part is the whole point of DDG. If you don't like/need that, you can si…

The question remains whether we (or rather you, the Chrome team) should leave such a decision to some "metrics". What has happened to smart decisions, bold moves and instinct?

Apple has all the resources, and they had the "goto fail". You should not underrate open source. Bugs are shallow, but that can never mean every single bug. Some bugs will always b…

Me too. And I feel they won't be the fastest here ... Certainly a downside of Heroku, where you cannot just re-compile and fix things yourself.

Google Play has various problems that are moderately severe, e.g. the "broken" permissions model [1]. But its relatively open nature comes with another problem, and one may argue t…

Agree in general. This is worrisome. However, (1) is most probably exaggerated. On mobile, you have an unbelievably broad selection, this will never become an oligopoly. But big pl…

That's Apple's system, right? Android does have a different one. Fortunately or unfortunately, I'm not really sure. Android's system definitely has advantages as well. But it goes …

Well, you're right, but Apple's model is fundamentally different. I don't think Android will switch to such a model in the (near) future. That would mean a lot of things have to be…

Auto-updating without asking if the user is okay with the new permissions? How should this work?

Android just needs App Ops back -- all privacy issues solved. But it seems this won't happen. Pressure from Facebook etc.?

That depends. If we talk about high-quality apps, innovative applications, products used by millions of users, I'm sure you're right. And I guess most HN users (if involved at all)…

Sort of, because I'm sure he/she knew exactly what the title was referring to ;) Anyway, that's not really important. By the way, it affects Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Blackbe…

Yes, definitely. And we can see that 1,000+ apps per week, maybe even growing, can quickly result in 47,000 apps here as well.