happywage

Thanks for the link, I discovered a really cool website for business inspiration :)

Helplessness. I have many projects to work upon but have no money in bank. Have not enough money to get a company registered and charge money from the clients so had to accept the job offer.

The only good thing I found in my job was the possibilities of polishing my skills as an entrepreneur and learn about current trends in B2B marketing.

I have a hard time thinking this is a bad thing. While people should be free to study whatever entertains them, I think most of these majors contribute little to making the world a better place or making us better people.

Two exceptions, in theory, are History and Philosophy, because knowledge in these areas has the potential to improve the quality of thought and discourse. However, the views of most people on these subjects seem to be so guided by partisan identities that it's not clear that mere education can overcome that. People refuse to reason well because they want to fit in with their friends and family.

Lets see if I am an electrical engineer, does it suggest relevant ideas ?

>>>>>is it the case that you want to allow your customers to make nominal purchases through the app, and Apple say these must be processed through in-app payments?

Yes!!

Customers will not be bypassing the app store, they're bypassing the in-app payment infrastructure. But Apple want to allow only in-app payments.

This is actually the quasi-solution to a lot of problems. e.g. If you've got a database full of your employee's info, populate it with made-up info for a bunch of fake employees. When you use the database, use some secret method to distinguish which employees are real (maybe the sum of their employee ID number and birthdate is divisible by 197). If you ever get hacked and the database is stolen, good luck to the hackers selling a database where 99.5% of the info is fake. If you're a defense contractor, add a bunch of made-up project files for fake programs, complete with plans, designs, drawings, etc. If a foreign government manages to break in and steal them, they'll still have to try to figure out what's real and what's fake. For press releases, it's a lot simpler. You compose the press release and pre-upload it for release after an embargo date. But the salient details are obfuscated. "Our net income for this quarter were [ $1 million dollars | $100,000 | a loss of $500,000 ]." "We will be [ constructing a new facility in Phoenix, AZ | purchasing and renovating a facility in Boise, ID | demolishing our warehouse in Denver, CO ]" etc. When the embargo is up, instead of just automatically releasing the pre-prepared press release, you simply edit out the fake info then give the OK to release it. Security through obscurity isn't true protection. But it can make the thieves' jobs a lot harder.

I have a startup which builds a web-based enterprise product. A year ago we launched a companion app that provides a fraction of the functionality of the desktop application, just enough to help our customers extract the key information they need when they're on the road.

All of a sudden a few days Apple decides we have to implement in-app payments. I explained them that this is an enterprise product for an arcane industry and that our customers require quotations/invoices raised to their procurement department and would not pay several hundred to several thousand dollars through the app. They insist we have to implement in-app payments despite not helping our customers nor our business. We don't have automated billing at all, not even on our desktop product. The requested change means months of development for no value (at this point).

No way to appeal. We can currently not update our app and if we don't implement in-app payments in an unspecified time our current version will be pulled too.

Thanks, Apple.

... in your newswire database.

"GE To Declare Bankruptcy", "Lockheed Sold to Chinese", etc. Sit back and watch idiots buy fake info and lose billions.