I'm a Posterous user and I really like the service but it has been interesting to watch the moves they have made lately since Tumblr has been getting a lot of positive press.
I wonder if these changes have been influenced by investor pressure to increase their brand awareness and to start to press the revenue button in order to compete with Tumblr.
This is true if you stay up all night trying to finish a project and then you have to go into the office the next day. The only way to keep yourself awake and alert is by consuming a higher amount of caffeine and calories than you normally would.
"The real number could be arrived by studying competition, market size, target audience, perceived value of your service and many other factors."
It would be helpful if someone did a study on pricing plans of popular web apps and could show how the pricing models affected the overall success of the apps in their own markets.
Accounting is one of those things that I drag my feet to learn and practice (along with taxes) when I would rather be coding.
Xero is the best app that I've found for keeping the day to day record keeping simple but you still need an accountant to have as a resource to ask questions and to check the books, especially around tax time.
I also wouldn't mind an app that's a virtual environment with bash, ssh, gIt, sqlite, django, a Safari tab, and Vim. If that existed I would buy an iPad tomorrow.
Whether it was for a feature or a demo, I like hearing about founders who turn into executives still coding and working on improving the code in their product.
I agree, I don't think that Apple will go after products that have nothing to do with the iPad. Unless you make an accessory or app for the iPad I think your safe.
However, it would be fun to watch Apple go after Notepad and ask Microsoft to change the name because they now own "Pad".
"In the end, it really doesn't matter, because in Apple's little App Store world, they don't even need to pretend they have a trademark. They've given themselves every legal right to pull an app for no reason at all."
Crazy yes, shocking no. They did the same with the "Pod" in iPod. If you develop for Apple's devices you play by their rules. I wish Apple would embrace developers and their apps because they are the reason why people have stayed with the iPhone.
"If Adobe actually wants to persuade Apple to support Flash on iPhone (either as a plugin or compiled to native apps), I know how they can do it. They can get an awesome, high performance, Flash environment working on Android, and get a bunch of great Flash apps running on Android phones"
So true.
Apple has every right to do what they are doing with their new developer's agreement. It's their platform, they own it. Just like it's every developers right to choose whether or not to develop for it. Let's face it, if all the developers stopped developing for it Apple would change their approach.
Adobe should stop complaining and put all their efforts into other platforms like Android. I think they have rode the Flash wave for too long and have become too fat and lazy.
If Android gains a lot of traction and Apple either becomes stagnate or falls behind because of lack of Flash support then I bet you would see Apple either try to make a deal with Adobe or they would build their own SWF player.
You may be right about the profit sharing. I thought I remember him saying that it was divided according to how long you have been with the company, but maybe it's not apart of the same "formula".
I have to wonder if Arrington saw that the product wasn't turning out like he had hoped and quietly decided that he didn't want the TechCrunch name on it. Maybe that's why he didn't commit to a contract because he wanted the relationship to dissolve while also making it appear that he was the good guy by being pushed out of the relationship.
In any case, you can be sure that Arrington is at least a little happy that the CrunchPad is not going up against the iPad.
Joel said in a stackoverflow podcast that he publishes the formula for the pay scales and profit sharing amounts so if an employee really wanted to know someone else's salary they could figure it out based on their position and how long they have been with the company.
I like the idea of transparency with salaries as long as the company pays well. If an employee decides he/she wants a higher salary than is afforded by a system like that they can look for another job or start their own company.