She's a great marketer, but I'd hardly say she has the programming ability.
Truest words ever written. I can only respect people whose _work_ I admire, and who understand. What has she built? Leah hasn't contributed anything of value to the Internet, unless a few videos or popularity contests count.
Sorry. I left one item of importance off my list: the valley has no respect for intelligent, professional women who aren't camera whores. Leah whatever her name is the worst example you could have cited.
The problem with Silicon Valley is that it doesn't respect intelligent women any more than the rest of the US. Sure, companies or "startups" will hire women as marketers to pass out badges or tshirts at big I/O events, answer phones, serve lunches, or vacuum the floors, work in the "massage" parlor . . . but being a female professional who actually has talent is about 1000 times harder than any guy who lives there can possibly understand.
The fragmented nature of the mobile device industry is what makes it difficult for any competitor to come in and "dethrone" the big, bad Apple. It's almost like when it comes to smart and progressive mobile apps it's "Apple" vs "everybody else".
So... what needs to happen is a marketplace that's been created specifically for everything that's _not_ Apple iPhone; one that actually focuses more on the software, instead of the hardware, and one that can spell out how that new fun game "Kick the Squirrels off their Bicycles" can work on a Nokia and Motorola, because (as they're all web-enabled), the most important aspect would be the phone's web-browsing capability. Fennec [ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec ] , for example, could be a pretty good starting point.
Firefox put a significant dent in IE's share of the PC hardware browser; something similar will happen with the iPhone, once people realize that they're getting charged _way_ too much for those iPhone contracts (kinda like ISPs screw[ed] people over by talking them into their 1+ or 2+ year "DSL modem service" contracts).
Truest words ever written. I can only respect people whose _work_ I admire, and who understand. What has she built? Leah hasn't contributed anything of value to the Internet, unless a few videos or popularity contests count.