Can anybody enlighten me on the technical difficulties of writing a todo list manager?
Adoption rates. Not everything is a technical problem.
More adoption => more sales => more money => more resources. So, frankly, I don't see the problem there.
Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder
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Do you actually use OneCloud on OSX and the mini office on Android? I find OneCloud to be very smooth: I only have a 128GB SSD drive on my old MacBook Air and the selective sync lets me keep most of my videos, pictures, backups, etc. offline. I don't use Office on the Android too much, but it seems OK enough. BTW, I went with Office 365 as a price/cost decision. For $99/year my wife and I both get 1 TB of cloud stora…
Yes, I went through a one mongth trial of Office 365 because the price seemed good and I really wanted to like it. On OS X the OneDrive client had problems synchronizing my 80 GB archive - refused to synchronize files containing characters not accepted on Windows (like ":"), crashed several times and it was also saturating my network bandwidth. To make matters worse, OneDrive doesn't have basic functionality, like a…
I agree that it is annoying to occasionally have to remove special characters from file names. BTW, I also back up locally so a OneDrive error would be a real nuisance, but no real damage. I mainly like cloud storage for devices with small SSD drives, like my old MacBook Air.
I used to be a very happy Dropbox paying customer but I did not like their hiring of C. Rice to their board of directors.
edit: thanks for the good reply to my comment.
Re: Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder
#133Congrats to the Wunderlist team. And oh crap, one of my favorite startup quotes was "Nobody got rich making a Todo list App." That is in danger of being falsified :-) It is interesting to consider Microsoft's putative strategy here which is that the mobile "OS" is still searching for the right mix of capabilities to completely replace laptops.
Tell that to DHH.
how is DHH related?
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Also offtopic, but everybody really should be brushing twice a day, for a full 2 minutes each time. And flossing.
Flossing is actually less important than most people think. It's far more important to thoroughly brush your teeth, to the extent that most of the time that people spend flossing would be better off used for brushing. Flossing doesn't protect against caries, but can provide some benefits for gum health.
as a child, I was told that my teeth were fairly well protected against cavities on the open surfaces by cursory brushing, by virtue of my sealants- but that flossing was equally if not more important since those inter-tooth pockets were the only places where food could hang out, firmly pressed against the enamel.
Re: Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder
#135Okay. I'm migrating my Wunderlist lists to plain text now.
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Flossing is actually less important than most people think. It's far more important to thoroughly brush your teeth, to the extent that most of the time that people spend flossing would be better off used for brushing. Flossing doesn't protect against caries, but can provide some benefits for gum health.
as a child, I was told that my teeth were fairly well protected against cavities on the open surfaces by cursory brushing, by virtue of my sealants- but that flossing was equally if not more important since those inter-tooth pockets were the only places where food could hang out, firmly pressed against the enamel.
There actually hadn't been much research done on it until relatively recently (and probably still not enough), so your dentist was just following the common knowledge of the time.
Here's a link: http://www.cochrane.org/CD008829/ORAL_flossing-to-reduce-gum...
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$100-$200 million!? I'm dumbfounded with this. How many users did the app have? Granted it's a more than a TODO list. But it looks like an exorbitant amount of money for it.
I imagine a good chunk of that value is being placed on the team they acquired. They're a proven mobile dev shop with a well recognized name in an "up and coming" Berlin startup scene, who already have a major success under their belts. I'm also sure a sizeable percentage of the amount isn't cash but options with 2-4 year vesting periods. edit: also often the team salaries over the course of that period are included…
$100 million is not a "buying it for the team" kind of price. This is a pretty small shop and you can hire a lot of top-notch developers for $100 million.
They've gotta be expecting some kind of value out of this. The theory that Microsoft is trying to buy their way into being relevant in the mobile market seems pretty sound, especially based on other announcements, investments and acquisitions they've made recently.
But, yeah, you're probably right about options being a big part of the price, but Microsoft options are still pretty valuable. Almost as good as real money.