Matt Miller wrote a great post on Congress’ absurd hearings on Apple’s tax status: Why are we publicly browbeating an iconic U.S. firm in an era in which we should be encouraging every innovative company to locate and expand high-value work in America? What kind of message do hearings like this send to firms overseas […]
One of the most stunning facts about my grandmother was that she was handling the bookkeeping for the family business at age 9. Age 9! Most kids are playing ball or barbies or whatever. My grandmother was doing the books for a successful auto parts and scrap business. I discovered so much of myself in […]
My grandmother passed away this weekend. Her funeral is today. She lived 95 years, all but the last couple very healthy. My grandmother was an amazing woman. She was the oldest of four kids, born just before the depression. Her father did odd jobs after coming to the US and sometime before she was a […]
Google announced that developers can now reply to reviews in Google Play, Android’s app store. I thought I would add a few Do’s and Don’ts for us developers to consider. For instance, DO reply to correct facts. This is worth doing. A customer says your product doesn’t have feature XYZ and you respond, saying it […]
To back up my comments about paid apps being dead, Ben Thompson writes about Adobe’s business model switch. [1] (If you missed it, all Adobe products will forever more be subscription only.) His point is that the economic surplus of productivity apps makes them far more valuable then the prices charged so a switch to […]
Marco Arment linked to a blog post and commented that paid iOS apps are not dead: In most categories, if you either solve a new problem that a lot of people have, or solve an old problem in a new and better way, you can sell a paid app today just as well as you […]
Thank you, Seth Levine! In summary he says: So here’s to those entrepreneurs who are toiling away because they truly believe passionately in what they are doing and are going to make their idea a success whatever it takes. Building a business is crazy hard. You’d have to be half insane to even think about […]
