jasonsync
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Peter principle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Comment · 3 years ago
... or the "Pro" label is a hint that this is not an MVP (for the masses). Perhaps over-engineered to the point that they expect early adopter feedback will provide guidance on what can be axed.
Macbook Pro vs. Macbook kind of thing.
Comment · 3 years ago
We speculate that when Microsoft bought that part of Nokia, somewhere in the process the Sync.com domain name went up for auction (which appeared to be owned by Nokia just prior to the spin off).
As a startup trying to get going with Sync.Us, rebranding to https://www.sync.com really helped us take off.
Thanks to whomever auctioned that off :-)
Comment · 4 years ago
But doesn't a lot "good tech" have nefarious roots?
The internet got its start as a government weapon in the Cold War?
Comment · 4 years ago
We used this tactic as a growth hack in our early days (2016), and it worked great!
It also inspires sharing on Twitter, which helps drive the recommendation flywheel:
https://twitter.com/tdnvl/status/722882182759452675
The trouble is that it isn't easily scalable in-house at high volume. It was great until we realized that we were managing a large scale mailroom. But by then the flywheel was spinning ...
Comment · 4 years ago
Perhaps they start adding quality of life micro-transactions?
Some of which provide enough value that a significant portion of the user-base ends up paying for something?
Comment · 4 years ago
It's their primary personal email account for everything. Mine too.
Comment · 4 years ago
A long, long time ago I registered a domain name for a close group of friends, and the 4 of us have been happily use the free Gsuite for email @thedomain ever since.
From what I can tell we'd will have to start paying CAD $31.20 per month for 4 users. Seems pricy for our use case?
Comment · 5 years ago
We offer high speed email support at that level. It's in-house and fast.
Comment · 5 years ago
Looking for a Dropbox alternative? We were M1 native at launch (https://www.Sync.com).
Comment · 5 years ago
Looking for a Dropbox alternative? We were M1 native at launch (https://www.Sync.com).
Comment · 5 years ago
We once utilized an ad agency that relied heavily on "AI" to pre-test ad creative.
The agency presented regional branding campaign creative with our national flag flying at half mast. The AI predicted success. The ad agency stood by the AI.
Certainly would have generated clicks.
But the ad agency lost a customer. Not sure if the AI would have predicted that!
Comment · 6 years ago
The Mini in Mac Mini is no longer Mini. But it could be More Mini. Make it Mini.
Storage has been external for years now. None of the upgradable internals need a large footprint.
Comment · 6 years ago
I surprised myself last week!
When one of my older Macs became unresponsive due to that Apple network failure problem issue, I spent countless hours running various system cleaner utilities, uninstalling apps, and blindly running obscure terminal commands from Stack Overflow, even though my own initial console log analysis (and instincts) had more-or-less confirmed that it was an issue with trustd network connection timeouts to Apple's own servers.
Fool on me. This coupled with having to get my 2019 Macbook Air keyboard replaced twice (due to sticky keys) has me thinking out loud about moving away from Apple.
Good coverage of the trustd issue: https://tidbits.com/2020/11/13/apple-network-failure-destroy...
Rotten Tomatoes is owned by:
Warner Bros. (25%) NBCUniversal (75%)
If there was a Rotten Tomatoes for consumer electronics, I would suspect that it would be owned by Apple, Samsung, or Sony ...