Once they don't see the revenue they're expecting and realize that if all TV's come this way, most of us would be willing to pay MORE for 'no ads'... we will be back to where we were 5 yrs. ago.
I have not tried Hey.com yet and respect the author for the comparison of the two email platforms, but here’s two points:
1). Fastmail has custom domains to the nth degree (I have 20+ domains there, not certain how many Hey is planning to support and if they’re willing to handle replies from each)
2). Gmail or Yahoo seem to be a more appropriate review in these early days
“Once this was done the next step was to get people to choose our product vs the competition. In order to do this we did something that some might consider unethical - we included most of the features that the competitors had and made the app FREE which forced the competitors to go into losses. You cannot build a business by being nice.
Making the app free got us a plethora of users to whom we provided exceptional customer service which lead to them writing 5 star reviews, so even though they were using the app for free, we derived ROI out of them by gently nudging them to write reviews which boosted our ranking and eventually got us to the #1 rank for certain keywords.
This was when something very interesting happened. One of our competitors ran a DDOS attack on our servers. At this point we were getting 5 reviews a day and users congratulating us for our good work but the fact that someone tried to screw us over made it evident that we were on the right track.“
"The Cézannes of the world bloom late not as a result of some defect in character, or distraction, or lack of ambition, but because the kind of creativity that proceeds through trial and error necessarily takes a long time to come to fruition."
Depends on the type of analytics -- as that is a huge area.
- For just tracking traffic -- Google is fine.
- For Adwords, Omniture has a slew of products.
Once you add on a couple of layers -- such as an affiliate program, some display and then PPC from Yahoo & MSN .. you will run into a couple of areas .. such as multi-payouts and an issue with attribution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doFpACkiZ2Q