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The big problem with recording any kind of video or audio on the web is Flash. It's a nightmare with well-known _major_ bugs in Chrome (good luck clicking on "Allow" if you're a Macbook Pro with Retina display user). If you guys can find a way to (a) solve that, and (b) take away that pain for other users, then you have real value here. Seriously, I can't wait for HTML5 to be fully supported.

Thanks for your feedback. We are working on an iOS integration right now.

We do have a sound level meter. If that didn't move for you, it probably means we didn't get any sound input from your microphone.

As for the sending, we are investigating it right now. I think the recipient email address was malformed; just pushed out a fix, hopefully that'll do.

Great idea, working on it right away.

EDIT: Done!

Yea, that's a bug with Flash and the new Retina display. They fixed that in the new beta version of Flash. Hopefully it will be pushed out soon.

>> Also, why are people still developing exclusively for iPhone? Last quarter there were four times as many Android phones sold as iPhones.

I can only speak for myself, but developing for Android is a nightmare compared to developing software for iOS. Different behaviour amongst different Android devices makes it really hard to provide a consistent user experience.

Great feedback, thank you! I certainly see your point, and I think it really depends on the use case. VoiceGem wasn't intended as a text replacement, but more for personal messages with emotional value, hence listening to them.

However, the use case you describe has come up several times now, so it's something we are aware of.

Thanks. We're definitely considering that, I think it would make a lot of sense.

Thanks! Yes, our data shows a surprising amount of longer messages. As for voicemail, same here. Arda addressed this in a comment above: it's just not used for asynchronous communication.

We see two main differences to existing voice applications. First, VoiceGem is meant to be usable by anyone (without having to install an iPhone application, for example). This is the kind of service you can use with your parents, non-tech friends, or customers. Secondly, and maybe even more importantly, we try to enable longer, richer conversations. Whereas blip.me/Voxer focus on walkie-talkie applications (and do a great job!), the messages we get and send are often 5+ minutes long.

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Andrew Ng (along with Sebastian Thrun) are both working for Google (on driverless cars).