The GOP seems more and more against things going the way of the "public Interest" in favor of the few connected, this makes it even harder to build a future with the more and more progressive majority.
It’s always very sad to see these Big companies give hard times to startups mostly for the simple reason that they can. They don't generally give a good reason, with a generic overnight internal policy rule they will just shut down a service. It’s even more so when you think that they too were startup. Just hang in there Unglue.it team, implement a new payment process, it’s the hard way to success I guess.
These guys should have taken the 4 billion from Google. Their unfair advantage is pretty much inexistent that leave them extremely vulnerable to any competition.
How about Brand Fatigue? could it be that people are tired of hearing Google this Google that. Why can’t Google build brand from the ground up for some of their products?
In the context of Kroft asking "how such an intelligent man could make such a seemingly stupid decision", human are naturally afraid of surgery, no want want their body open unless they have no choice; Steve too.
I don't think his decision to refuse surgery was a 'stupid decision', he was just being human. Steve's success in tech should not make him in the eyes of people be super human. Even in tech, successful people make lot of mistakes; history just records successes.