Does this mean Apple is not shutting down iAd fully, but its shutting down iAd app network which allows developers to advertise their own apps through iAds?
Does it mean you can ship your apps with iAds, but you cannot advertise your app as a developer with iAds now onwards?
In the first quote he basically says MySpace didn't have the engineers to save the company.
In the second quote he basically says engineers are not what make the social industry tick. Yes, he's talking about Apple and Google here, but he's contradicting what he said.
Regardless I'm not sure why he said the first quote in the at all. The problem they had, had nothing to do with Engineers, but had everything to do with the company culture.
In the article I find these two statements, from Percival, contradicting:
"Percival talked about what the company might have done differently, and admitted that by the time he arrived in 2009, it was possibly unsaveable – not least because by that time, it was difficult to hire the most talented engineers against competition from Facebook, Google and other rising tech companies."
“There are companies that do not get social and they never will. Apple’s one of them, Google is the other: they’ve failed with Google+. When your culture is engineering-focused, you do not understand social. Social is a very emotional experience. Engineers are not so much, in a lot of cases,”
She can write an infinite amount of new music all day for free. People can't tell the difference between her and human composers when put to a blind test.
I tried this today mixed with some other comments. Here are my results and where I currently stand. Any feedback would be great.
Me:
Sends preliminary project proposal based off of vague details to my referral.
Referral:
Sends me NDA and introduces me to the potential client.
Me:
"The 5 year NDA length is longer than I will agree to. Is there a reason for the excessive length? I will agree to a 1 year term." After doing this I did more research on what to do.
Potential Client:
Nice to meet you. The NDA of 5 years is very standard stuff. All of our partners do sign this agreement. Hope you can too. Thanks. I would like to discuss the estimate so that I do understand all. Thanks again. I would look forward to working with you.
Me:
"Why do you specifically need the NDA? I'm worried that it's written broadly and will restrict my creativity.
I'm going to have my lawyer take a look at it and get back to you in the next few weeks."
Me:
Sent another message after thinking a little more.
"I want my lawyer to make modifications based on the specific needs. I may require additional compensation to sign, especially a 5 year contract.
Please let me know your additional questions for the proposal. We can setup a time to talk tomorrow afternoon or I could answer the questions in more detail over email."
Potential Client:
Thanks for your feedback. We are in very preliminary stages on this. I wouldn't go any further until we have had more internal meetings and have a chance to to provide more specifics. Thanks for your time.
I've tried to build in public many times, but it sucks.
1. Spend more time to make the project public.
2. Most of the time no one gives you any feedback.
3. People do give feedback, you make improvements, and they disappear. Once that happens you're back to #2.
It's painful talking to yourself, especially after iterating several times, and spending the extra time to make it public.
I didn't get the bit about the video (the kings speech). I've never seen the movie. Seemed like a random throw in. Wish there would have been at least one sentence to tie it in.
Does it mean you can ship your apps with iAds, but you cannot advertise your app as a developer with iAds now onwards?