cyberguppy

My wife understands, even if she could never fully Understand. But that's why we're parts of communities like this one. We all Understand.

I started out as a Netscape for Mac user. I stayed that way until there was a viable alternative, and that alternative was never IE, no matter how much Steve Jobs stood on stage and said he loved it.

MarketBrief sounds like a home run to me. If the product works as described it's a tremendous value proposition.

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Sorry.

If the value you place on the friendship is greater than the amount owed, forgive the debt and ask your friend to just help out someone in need one day when he is able.

If the value you place on the friendship is less than the amount owed, bring out the lawyers.

I'm not entirely convinced that the problem you're solving is a serious one, but I still think that your results could be fun and the locality aspect might well result in neat things bubbling up that's particularly relevant to a specific audience (I'm thinking the NASCAR crowd in middle America, or anarchists in Oregon). I am interested to see how it works out, and would participate.

I like this post. Shame it didn't gain any traction and is about to fall off the "new" page. Oh well at least I got to read it - right?

I do not understand the point of this long rant when you have zero understanding of the mobile marketplace. I'm going to go ahead and take your advice and "say everything [you've] typed up until now is garbage" and "[wave] it all away" and respond to the reviews point.

When users grab an App for free, they leave worse reviews in aggregate, nearly every time. In the mobile marketplace, people who have to spend money to buy Apps normally have money, and often have jobs, which sometimes means they're adults, which occasionally means they act like adults when they decide to review an app they decide to spend money on. People who download apps for free often decide to act like privileged little brats and berate an app for any feature they perceive that it should have but which they fail to find (regardless of whether said feature exists in the app). They leave poor reviews and don't factor "value" into the equation because all they ever download are free Apps and they expect nothing less than Angry Birds every single time.

It's not the name 1-click, it's the process of single click checkouts. Amazon patented it, and actually Apple pays a license fee to use it (they were the first to pay the fee, if I remember correctly - of course it could be a 1 cent per million use fee that is intended to legitimize the patent rather than actually earn revenue for Amazon, but I think Amazon's smarter than that).

I imagine there is a lot of money to be made on Amazon using this Salomon bond trader technique of simply putting a finger on the pulse of the market.

In calculus terms, it would be like taking a derivative of the Amazon marketplace and operating on different rules than most or all buyers and sellers on the marketplace.

The trick is minimizing your risk and making sure to adhere to Amazon's terms. [Does the scenario in the grandparent comment go against Amazon's terms I wonder?]