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As always, depends what you're doing, but this is not a crazy statement.

There are certainly fewer bombshells in iOS6 than iOS 5, but it's no stretch to say that adopting iOS 5 early on was worth 100s of hours -- it had huge improvements for dev.

Also keep in mind that the fewer OS versions you target the less testing you have to do.

You still have to be pretty pessimistic to think taxes will rise faster than your rate of return!

Come on - your local bakery (even if it's a chain, even if you don't like it as much as you used to) is a low-margin enterprise. Getting screwed out of thousands of dollars is tough on places like that.

Plus that was just the example. If they were net-30 on the break room food, it's a safe bet a bunch of freelancers and other local businesses also had losses.

Just hate to see this part:

OnLive was a frequent customer or Prolific Oven Bakery in Palo Alto, said Regina Chan, daughter of the owner of the local chain. By the time the company went through its insolvency in August, it owed the bakery $2,000, which represented about a month's worth of Onlive's orders, she said.

This is common in the kayaking/climbing community.

Every paddler I know living out of a van gets an old Toyota Previa. Why? They're cheap, fuel-efficient, readily available, easy to gut the back, and deal with dirt roads fairly well.

Yeah, they totally picked the wrong 4-letter domain.

It's still pretty magical to see an actual picture of actual alluvium on the surface.

I wonder if that was part of the reason for the redesign.

I'm concerned about this.

App store search has had a heavy bias towards the top 4-5 results. This will only make that bias stronger.

Or sue to maintain control of it. You know, either way.

Impossible to offer pricing advice without knowing about your traffic. Done right, you are offering a fairly valuable form of advertising and one that restaurateurs understand well.

That's kind of a strange attitude to have. Your competition (more or less) charges $50: http://www.charlesproxy.com/

I think Mark Singer's writing is great. Did you think he represented the situation accurately, though?

Actually, if you plant hybridized seeds, you have to buy seeds each year since you can't grow your own seed crop. That's farmer DRM.

If you go organic and plant all heirloom/non-hybrid seeds then you won't have that problem. That's kind of like switching to Linux.

Have you spent time in many Gehry buildings?

For example, the EMP here in Seattle looks pretty weird from the outside. I can see how you'd call it unpleasant/memorable based on pictures or driving by but once you go in it's great. Some beautiful interior spaces, well organized, works well for the purposes I've been there for.

Thanks -- I had no idea you could just buy a tape library off the rack (more or less).

Storage experts: I'd love to know more about what might be backing this service.

What kind of system has Amazon most likely built that takes 3-4 hours to perform retrieval? What are some examples of similar systems, and where are they installed?

The operative difference between buying cups of coffee and paid apps is actually this:

If you try to spend $50 on cups of coffee you'll quickly become twitchy and have to stop, but if you keep pressing the Buy button in the app store you can easily get the thing done.

How about this?

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=s12...

Whoa, yeah. These guys have the #2 free iPad app and have been gained in sales rank every day the game has been available.

Freaking out because conversion rate on their IAP is lower than expected seems a little premature. If they keep getting 30k installs a day, they will end up with plenty of options for monetizing the thing.

That approach worked great for Quora early on.

Agreed, but that fight is over: it's going to be on the ballot.

That's what they meant. A yes vote on Ref 74 will legalize same-sex marriage.

Consider inspecting the MAS receipt and issuing them a license in your own scheme if you are leaving. At least then you get to keep your customers.

The design of this site is really impressive. If you're working on a web product you should be taking notes.

Probably the #1 problem for a brand new site offering financial advice is to establish credibility. Lots of past entrants did a lousy job of this, but these guys have nailed it on day 1. Their site looks a lot like the NYT's info features, and it helps them look authoritative.

The funny thing is, they probably should have priced lower. If you look at their rank history on Mac and iOS, they saw big grossing rank bumps the few times they dropped the price.

Maybe that's just a short-term effect (yay, sale!), but based on the week they sold Sparrow for $4.99, there's a good chance they would have made more long term.

App store economics are weird.

Mac app had a run rate of over $1m its first six months, per this interview: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-26/tech/30036420...

Who knows what was happening internally, but on the surface: strong team of 5, $1-1.5m revenue their first year, tremendous reputation and another product in the pipeline. What more could you ask for to make a long term go of it?

1) Maybe I am just slow, but it would probably take me more than 12 weeks to create an app like this. Well designed mobile stuff can be deceptively time consuming.

2) http://mint.com

Here's a chart of their Canada rankings: http://www.appannie.com/app/ios/budget-with-back-in-black/ra...

Looks like they only do well in English-speaking markets, so they'll mostly live and die by their US performance. So it's more accurate to call them the #75 finance app (that's about where they seem to hover). $80k/yr to be number 75 in your biggest market doesn't seem quite as bad.

An interesting question is: why are they #1 in Canada? In the US, there are dozens of better selling budget trackers. What's different about Canada?