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Paying my cat sitter is totally out of control! It's my single biggest cost, after my mortgage, food, utilities, travel, clothing, internet, entertainment, drugs, coffee, gas, and succulent plant collection.
A good cat sitter is hard to find. The wife and I have told ours, if we move, she is moving with us.
> Staffing is the “single biggest cost” after fees paid to app distribution platforms like Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, according to Arison. This is a hilarious quote. It's a software company! What other major costs are there besides the staff to make and manage the software? I think I even find it a little disturbing that fees paid to Apple and Google are higher than salary paid to staff.
To us in the industry this is pretty obvious—but it's surprising to folks outside of tech.
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Paying my cat sitter is totally out of control! It's my single biggest cost, after my mortgage, food, utilities, travel, clothing, internet, entertainment, drugs, coffee, gas, and succulent plant collection.
A good cat sitter is hard to find. The wife and I have told ours, if we move, she is moving with us.
Not sure that it's such a great business decision to lose almost half your staff, and probably moreso the higher-performing ones with other options. I'm guessing that this was intended to reduce the headcount without paying severance, which sounds attractive to the average MBA brain with zero ability to think through long-term consequences.
They did pay severance. > The West Hollywood, California-based company also gave a severance package to staff who were unable to relocate, in what the CWA alleged was an attempt “to silence workers from speaking out about their working conditions,” according to a statement from the organization.
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"Elon Musk says Twitter’s ad revenue is down 50% and cash flow is negative" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/business/twitter-cash-flow-el...
That has absolutely nothing to do with the number of staff. It is directly related to the ADL’s campaign of convincing advertisers to pull out. It appears there will be a lawsuit. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/05/tech/elon-musk-adl-lawsui...
How many engineers does it take to lose chats, give bots unfettered access, not back up my messages, and spam me with low quality ads? It’s worth pointing out that the fees they charge for the premium subscription are absolutely outrageous. $20-$40 PER MONTH. I guess they just added a web client, which absolutely no one needs, that probably cost a pretty penny. Scruff makes a drastically better product at similar sca…
>I guess they just added a web client, which absolutely no one needs, that probably cost a pretty penny. I'd argue the opposite, they absolutely need a web client, as Grindr (and Scruff) are getting their lunch eaten by a new Seattle-based competitor that has no app store presence and fully embraces the freedoms that come with that, and is cheaper to boot.
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> It's a software company! But it's not actually a software company.
What are they? Edit: as the saying goes, people don't want a drill, they want a hole. So if Grindr isn't a software company but a matchmaker that happens to write software (or CaaS/PaaS), then I don't know who truly is a software company. Microsoft is a productivity company, Amazon is a retailer & B2B services company, Google is an advertiser, and so on.
And yeah, not a software company.
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But if you have a web client and app store apps, which are frontends to the same thing, doesn't that mean that your site is still constrained by the app store rules?
Less data can be grabbed from a web app, which is better for users. Less apps going through the app store ecosystem means 30% lower rents if you can divorce the app store billing, which is better for the company. I imagine a future where the webapp installs a PWA to mitigate the rent-seeking app stores. But I am sure the app stores would insert a clause preventing a "lite" version of PWA's to be installed.
Of course don’t share what you wouldn’t want copied. However, the false sense of security they communicate to the average non-technical user about their ‘privacy’ features like disappearing photos and locked albums is quite disingenuous and harmful.
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If that's the criteria, can you name any company that's not a software company in 2023? The local steel mill got hit with ransomware a few months ago. The Windows virus didn't touch the furnace controls, cranes, sand dispensers, or forklifts, but it shut down their custom software that lets them receive purchasing requests, queue work orders to the foreman, and eventually ship to and bill customers, and they were shu…
I understood it as the company has to write the software in-house. The steel mill bought the software, so not a software company by that definition.
Sure, in that specific example they only have about 5 out of a couple hundred employees who can write C#, and maybe 10 who can program PLCs, plus some contractors like myself. But your definition of "software company" was effectively "dependent on custom software to operate", and that's been true of every single one of hundreds of automotive/furniture/aerospace/heavy industrial manufacturing plants that I've been in throughout the past 10 years.
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A good cat sitter is hard to find. The wife and I have told ours, if we move, she is moving with us.
Is this a serious reply? I mean, don't cats just ignore everyone? What do cat sitters do apart from spoon food from the packet into the bowl, replenish the water and occasionally tickle the cats tummy?