Windows Phone did not take off when it partnered with Nokia to sell Lumia Phones. At that time Nokia still had market share and loyal users especially in Europe and India. Despite a good OS, great dev tools and good OEM backing MSFT did not manage to get a market share of 10% be a relevant 3rd platform. It's hard to imagine how MSFT would restart a battle that has been lost some time ago.
There are some big corps that only want people with degrees but most of them value experience more than degrees. It has been quite easy to get jobs without a degree for me and see similar tendencies for other people that don't have a degree (this is for Europe, Switzerland). On the other hand I saw people struggling to find jobs with degrees since they were lacking experience.
Talk and stop it immediately. If cofounder does nothing and you say that you will stop doing any work under these circumstances nothing will be done and this is not good for co-founder's shares. Stop it immediately. Once money, fame and press is involved it's getting much worse.
Probably better to gain traction on one platform first. If it is working out well you have found the recipe and it's likely to work on other plattforms as well. By adding other platforms you will multiply the userbase by 3 in the best case. Increasing the installed base on one plattform in an early stage will be more effective.
Musicians and labels need to find new ways to monetize instead of distributing copies of master recordings. If artists have records that are widely listed to they can play well payed gigs or get endorsment deals. Seems like the average consumers thinks, that listening to music must be free.
Since Sweden adopted anti P2P laws (IPRED) in 2009 Spotify usage has grown. In 2009 France adopted an anti P2P law (HADOPI). Since then music sales in France declined at a lesser rate than global sales and therefore artist earnings declining less than on global level (http://www.fortherechord.com/hadopi-and-cartes-musique-franc...). This would point to a correlation between "piracy" and music sales.
Fully agree. Question is on what distribution channel will be used for web apps. Will it be in the browser or applications including a WebView? Users seem to like/get used to the concept of stores as distribution channel for web apps.