Don't see any kind of FAQ or further information. Would be nice to have that at the bottom of the page.
Does it work throughout the US? Square Cash doesn't work in a few states.
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Does it work throughout the US? Square Cash doesn't work in a few states.
According to these ICT estimates, 38% of the population will have PCs in 2013, which would be about 2.734 billion people. (The key statistics excel sheet). http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.as...
Sure they may be overinflated numbers, but no different than what advertising bombards us with on a daily basis. I guess you've never heard of marketing copy.
I've always just used the shortcut and searched in Dash. Although, I do tend to stick to mostly one set of documentation.
A couple things:
- Instead of saying "subscribed" and "following" say "unsubscribe" and "unfollow" and change the colors (Twitter does it this way). That way I know what that button is going to do when I click on it.
- The top bar seems unnecessary except for search. If your avatar/username are linked to your profile, all of the buttons would be duplicates. Not saying that will work in the long run or be totally discoverable, but I think it could help. You could move the search box to the left hand pane or something if you got rid of the bar.
I would guess that there was already pressure to remove some skeuomorphism at that point.
A much better option would simply be to provide a simple interface to allow users to exclude this information each time they post a photo and/or in the application settings.
Facebook and Twitter also makes available the location of your photos. Is there a particular reason you are singling out Path? I hope it's not a stretch to assume this is a page view grabbing technique.
However, I agree with rabidsnail, I think the multitude of unique gestures are too much for most users to take in and there are some odd choices like pull to refresh even though the concept seems to be an infinite list, and jumping to titles which makes the scrolling seem jerky.
Still, the core functionality is there and I will definitely use the app on a daily (if not hourly) basis.
Great job!
- This argument is only valid on a surface level. It is extremely valuable to have experience in any field not necessarily because the details of doing business don't change but because the overall conceptual challenges in doing the work require making mistakes and learning from this. This crops up in system architecture, class design, etc. on a day to day basis for programmers.
- Clearly the author has not paid attention to the startup community. There are plenty of small companies and a thriving community of other programmers. If this is a good argument, then the same could be said of nearly any other field but athlete and rockstar.
- Only time will tell if it is truly effective to outsource programming. I think things seem to be shifting away from this, especially in the wake of massive job losses in the U.S. (no company wants to be seen as the one outsourcing) - Project management is difficult but this is less important as products become easier to build and platforms and languages evolve to make things easier on developers.
- The minute he mentioned his job in an IT department I just didn't bother reading further. The author has clearly never worked in a startup or even modern programming environment (many people I know who work in larger companies get great perks and work in good office environments). His argument that developers don't have the equipment to do their jobs has been totally disproven by every company I've ever talked to. They all are most interested in providing their employees the best tools possible.
It sounds to me like the author has had particularly poor experiences and doesn't have a good grasp on the industry as a whole. However, the opposite might be said about me. I may have had good experiences that were out of the norm. Either way, programming is clearly becoming an important part of our economy and I think that fact lends to the belief that the quality of a job in the field will improve.
I have to say that his argument that accounting is a better profession made me laugh out loud. 3 of my friends who are recent graduates entering the accounting field work extremely long hours and are unhappy with their work (two work for big firms). One of them is thinking of going back to school and getting a computer science degree.
I'll be recommending it as much as possible now that it is easily accessible in the App Store.
Google seems generally "useful" to everyone. They don't tend to have the same polarizing effect Facebook and Apple have.
And, of course, Twitter is just too unused by the general public.
Even the reasoning behind people's perceptions seems relatively easy to gauge:
Facebook's core product deals with personal and sensitive information that causes privacy concerns and seems to make the service more "personal".
Apple seems elitist to some. Probably because of their historically high priced items.
Google's core product is simply giving you access to information on the web that isn't particularly personal and provides a lot of real world value to people.
Seems employees and hiring would be important...
I usually use something like Soulver to do the quick calculations but it quickly becomes difficult if everyone has ordered items at drastically different costs.
It is way too much of a burden to manually log everything and I think solutions for these kind of things are going to be leap frogged by the Nike Fuelbands, Fitbits, and Jawbone UPs of the world.
Might make since to look at importing and visualizing that data.
I would happily pay money for something like this if the performance and features can be maintained.
The Parse team has done a great job so far and I'm excited to see what other improvements they make. This little exercise is a good intro to their platform.
This kind of response is a double-edged sword. The majority of comments in this thread seem to support the idea as a marketing ploy and that is fine. However, the other side of damaging the company's reputation & culture needs to be considered.
I do not want to deal with companies who make it a common practice to respond to slight arguments with long posts and websites instead of dealing with more important support issues, features, and bug fixes.
Time is a tradeoff. It's a finite resource that needs to be used wisely. It reflects poorly on your company (especially an early stage startup) when you publicly spend it doing things like this.
If either of these companies are serious about their products they would not be spending time responding to trivialities like this and would let the customers and product speak for themselves.
They could have mockingly made a fo-ZenDesk logo or any number of other things that didn't make it look like they are on the defensive.
Either way, as a customer I am more concerned about either of these companies using ANY of their time on this. Regardless of how much time they spent, it reflects on where their priorities lie.
They should be spending their time improving the product, coming up with new ideas, or responding to legitimate support inquiries.
Neither of these companies showed any "brilliant" response. Both end up looking bad.
Think of all that could have been accomplished on the product had they not been squabbling and setting up websites to argue with one another.
No one comes out on top in situations like this. I think it's best to end it with something like: "I'm sorry you feel that way. We'll let the customers decide."
Not so sure I'm inclined to get too excited by 5 screen mockups, especially ones which have example labels of "bullshit".