"...installing and managing a wide range of SDKs can be cumbersome and complex"
This is true not just within the Twitter ecosystem, but the entire API/SDK economy. Nice to see Twitter recognize this issue and do something about it.
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I guess the AppStore hasn't quite made 99cents seem like nothing. Users still don't want to pay for anything, no matter how small the cost may seem.
Shouldn't most if not all iOS developers already know about jailbreaking/Installous? If your revenue stream is 100% hinging on selling the app (as opposed to in-app purchases or ads), then shouldn't you be cognisant of the piracy issue associated with a jailbroken iOS device and not naive enough to think that every copy of your app will be obtained legally?
I do think it's a shame that companies put a lot into creating a premium app for the AppStore, which gets pirated and downloaded for free. But I don't really see an end to this for the foreseeable future. Apple has already tried to make jailbreaking illegal, but it failed to do so.
At the rate the value of that domain was rocketing, seems like a decent investment at the time. Too bad no one's going to want to be associated with it after what team Color did to itself.
Is this idea really worth leaving school for? I know of at least a few competitors in this space, so it seems like a pretty big risk (even with $1M in seed funding) to drop out.
Definitely agree that big, popular dating sites won't be quick to pick this up. I do see the possibility of them monitoring the usage of the API and perhaps integrating some 3rd party API's into their sites too.
What the dating API allows you to do is show off not only what you SAY you're doing, but what you're ACTUALLY doing. It adds an additional facet to someone's profile, which only enhances online dating in my opinion. Could be something larger players would want to look into.
The ongoing trend of mobile dating and social apps should benefit from this release.
though deep down i agree that this probably means big trouble for a lot of other companies in the photo sharing space, there are some innate differences that could keep other companies afloat (even COLOR!)
one of the big differences i can think of off the top of my head at 3am is that FB still isn't really about discovering new friends. You meet people in real life, then you friend them on Facebook. Not vice versa.
As far as I can tell, something that Color is expanding into is creating this "temporary" social network where you share photos with anybody within a certain location. It isn't as much about sharing photos with friends that you already have, as it is about discovering new people and the photos they're taking around you.
Based on widespread privacy concerns that Facebook has had to deal with, I'd say it's unlikely that this app involves social discovery. It's probably another friend, photo-sharing app, with the permissions of sharing mirroring what happens on the Facebook webapp.
i'm surprised it's taken facebook this long to create something photo specific. photos are one of the top (if not THE top) reason why people use facebook.
for full disclosure, i used to work at RIM and it was a great company to work for.
i think this article nails one aspect of RIM's downfalls really well. they're stuck in the past. but the reason why this is the case isn't because their technology is outdated or that they're too stubborn to move forward. they're just slow. really REALLY slow.
even while i was working for the company (in their northern CA office), everything was slow. decision making, development, pushing a product out. for example, take the playbook. it took them over half a year to move the playbook from announcement into the hands of users. with the market for tablets heating up rapidly, that was just way too much time.
another thing that causes this slowdown is RIM's lack of silicon valley presence. they have one small contingency out in redwood shores but that's it. sure, you can argue that RIM is located in the heart of canada's engineering capital, but that's still no silicon valley.
agree. pretty tough to make a universal claim off of a couple stories.
although, i do agree that ivy league education is very VERY overrated, especially for the price tag. although, in some cases the brand may justify the $.
at least in the math department, the US really needs a revamp, especially in elementary school/middle school
in 4th grade, my math education consisted of a year full of "do 100 simple addition problems in 5 minutes". Once you did it in 5 minutes, it became "do 100 simple addition problems in 4 minutes" on the SAME sheet of problems. Then 3 minutes, then 2 minutes. It became an exercise in memorization and pencil dexterity.
i'm pretty sure everyone who did their elementary education in the US had to do this at one point in their lives. but come on! not only did my penmanship degrade from having to write so fast, it was an utter waste of an entire year of my education.
disclaimer: i didn't complain while i was doing it though. they rewarded me with candy :)
is your demo a functioning demo? or is it a dummy demo purely for demonstration?
the best way to get funding is to put your product in the hands of your users. unless your idea is a out-of-this-world idea, you're likely going to need to show the investors that your product is in high demand on the market and that you've gained some sort of traction already.
This is true not just within the Twitter ecosystem, but the entire API/SDK economy. Nice to see Twitter recognize this issue and do something about it.