"use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?"
well this use case is certainly the main strategy for facebook and myspace.
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
of course it's possible. Is that sustainable for your average single app? probably not. However, with 15 some odd phones releasing in the near future, if you're doing mobile development, you have to be putting more focus on Android.
It's not really so smart to go into a market right at the start of the bump, because the values at the very start will be way off the charts compared to when it is a stable store.
agreed, however, the mobile app market appears to be very fast and finicky. Unless your building an application that is tied to, or supports another, already existing application, it's primarily a craps shoot on making money or not.
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#13Very funny :)
Just wanted to take this chance to say thanks for Phonalyzr. I'm a big fan!
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#14The real question is: "who's 22 and still living in a dorm room"?
Cool story though, glad to hear your users are finding original uses for your app
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#15I sent my ex-girlfriend a similar graph months ago with the subject line "graphing my way to your heart". I failed. I even installed the Android SDK on my machine to get the screenshot.
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#16With due respect, I think that this post is unbecoming HN. JWZ's quip was sexist and so is this follow-up. Also, while there is a long history of the successful monetization of business models which "get people laid," generally speaking such models command at best low respect and at worst criminalization. Sometimes some people wonder why computing tech industries are seemingly so uninviting to women. Other times, other people wonder why that first group is acting so surprised.
"How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" "That's not funny." is funny, because it's true.
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#17The real question is: "who's 22 and still living in a dorm room"? Cool story though, glad to hear your users are finding original uses for your app
People who enter university at 18 and stay for four years instead of dropping out to start a company oops I think I showed my hand there.
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#18I suspect he would have got laid without the android app at that particular moment.
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#19With due respect, I think that this post is unbecoming HN. JWZ's quip was sexist and so is this follow-up. Also, while there is a long history of the successful monetization of business models which "get people laid," generally speaking such models command at best low respect and at worst criminalization. Sometimes some people wonder why computing tech industries are seemingly so uninviting to women. Other times, oth…
> JWZ's quip was sexist and so is this follow-up.
Guys really want to sleep with girls, and have less options and a harder time of it, especially when they're younger. Guys spend hundreds, thousands of dollars to try to get girls, and almost everything is marketed to men as the answer towards getting women.
Making that explicit acknowledges how things are and what's really actually happening in the world, and is probably less sexist than the average car commercial, beer commercial, diamond commercial, men's magazine, or women's magazine.
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#20With due respect, I think that this post is unbecoming HN. JWZ's quip was sexist and so is this follow-up. Also, while there is a long history of the successful monetization of business models which "get people laid," generally speaking such models command at best low respect and at worst criminalization. Sometimes some people wonder why computing tech industries are seemingly so uninviting to women. Other times, oth…
> JWZ's quip was sexist and so is this follow-up. Guys really want to sleep with girls, and have less options and a harder time of it, especially when they're younger. Guys spend hundreds, thousands of dollars to try to get girls, and almost everything is marketed to men as the answer towards getting women. Making that explicit acknowledges how things are and what's really actually happening in the world, and is prob…
The post in question doesn't acknowledge that "that's how things are" and it certainly doesn't acknowledge that there are reasons why things being that way is an undesirable condition. On the contrary, the post in question joins in making sure that "that's how things are" and thus contributes to an overall environment that is detrimental to most women.