The Nordics are social democracies. Free market, liberal with a strong emphasis on social care. I'm not quite sure what your point is.
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Basically, groups of functions are consistent: string,array etc. Their parameter order was usually based on whatever the underlying C API was.
Issues that are probably bigger than "balancing" when you're commuting by bike are: access to safe cycle paths, getting sweaty before work and the weather.
If I were to do it again I'd likely not use the branches for branding config, but keep them all in one place and use a build tool to make sure the required settings are in place and merged before deployment. As long as you tag your releases you can fix certain clients to certain releases.
Make sure you talk to your clients about what their branding requirements are. Some companies get very very specific about what they 'need' and as soon as you offer the ability to customise something they can get irritated if their brand doesn't look quite right. As others have said make all of these customisations part of a config file and just reference that in your code. Once you start making specific changes for a client your life becomes difficult and you end up managing a specific bunch of code just for them.
You didn't say if the white labeled app would be a public download of it it's intended for company staff. If it's the latter you can probably have a single app that gets configured on the first start up, i.e. it's blank when you open it, sign in and it pulls in the required config and then takes on the customer's brand.
Something I do like about my MBP, even after quite a few years of abuse it still looks in decent shape. The case, screen hinge and keyboard all still feel solid. Which is where lots of other laptops seem to fall apart. Though the battery and trackpad have seen better days. Something nice about macs is they are usually serviceable for quite some time, either via Apple or third parties - I needed a new power adapter recently and could walk into a shop and get a new one there and then. Trying to track down power adapters etc for short lived models from other manufacturers can often be a pain.
All in all I don't think it's anything magic about macs. If you bought a similarly specd and built machine from someone else you'd be in the same position.
I've been using DO recently because I was given some free credit - mainly for testing Ansible. Their pricing is very aggressive and they do have that new fresh out of the box feeling.
I haven't used anything from them in production yet though so can't do a full comparison. Negatives for DO are they don't support private networking in all of their datacenters, they also don't pool bandwidth (as far as I'm aware) between all of your instances, I haven't seen any references to permanent/fixed IP addresses in the DO control panel - they seem to be dynamically assigned on each droplet spin up.
I haven't used DO support but Linode support has always been fast and accurate for me. For me, at the moment, DO isn't offering anything more than Linode so moving sites doesn't make sense in my case (disk IO isn't an issue for me at present).
There's also a documentary on the developers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_a21fPkYM
If you're on a 2 year $100/month contract probably $30 a month goes to repay they phone cost the rest for the service insurance etc. If you don't upgrade straight away or get a big discount at the end of the contract you're effectively giving your mobile operator a massive profit jump.
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s4/sh/9cac8469-887f-40fd-9401...
Have you talked to potential customers? What do your potential customers want, what needs aren't being matched by someone else?
Your opening sounds empty to me. Your product doesn't look like every other CRM tool, it doesn't look like peoplesoft, salesforce, sugarcrm. To me it looks a bit out of date. That's not necessarily a bad thing. I've worked with plenty of people that feel far more comfortable with something "more traditional". I would go with an opening selling the straight forward to the point nature of the product.
Personally I prefer to see the price/buying options before I click a buy now button.
You are selling a CRM product but your first screen shot is of a task list with personal items on it. Loose weight etc. As a customer this doesn't shout this software will help me manage customers and make more money.
The description on the customers screenshot is incorrect.
It looks like this is a product for a single person/freelancer as it doesn't allow sharing of data. That's going to limit your audience.
Personally I'd sell/develop the customer management/communication features more - how is it easy to keep trac of conversations, does it hook into email can I merge my calendar? I'd consider a mobile version for people visting clients on site.
The author seems to think there's a magic cloud switch that makes your app work in multiple datacenters all at once. Apparently virtualisation makes that easy. VMs are going to keep you data in sync? They're going to fail over perfectly in all conditions? They're going to make sure data is routed to the best zone?
My only issue was with Flash. I'm not into bashing Flash just for the sake of it, but my only frustrations were caused by Flash just not living up to the rest of the delivery experience. I think it was the hardware acceleration issue that is already mentioned in their FAQ. Geting the video to play was sometimes a case of throw a 6 to start.