Is's hard to find a analogy that really fits well...
Bloggers typically benefit from their activity, wether they blog on a platform or have their own blog. In both cases, they have an audience.
As your main point is about fully controlling the tools you'd use for their work, maybe something like racing drivers building their own cars would work better...
This analogy just seems a bit confusing to me and threw me off the main point...
End users, readers = coffee consumers
Bloggers = baristas, either working in their own store or a Starbucks.
Mixing the two up doesn't make sense. Well, there are a couple of bloggers that are their only readers - hopefully less guys than the ones that brew their own coffee though ;).
I´m a bit conflicted.. on one hand they lost user confidence by discontinuing Reader, on the other I completely get the approach to focus on a few things and really do them well.
In Government / from within, hackers generally don´t have the skills to be able to change the system - Government is run by politicians - the effect of a good hacker is about as small as in your typical old-world corporate run by finance guys…
Compare that to companies where hackers are the CEOs…
Word isn´t the problem... Converting from Word to something else is some pain for users. Converting from Excel (especially Excel Macros) to something else is in the Millions of $ for developers/re-engineering of those Macros...
Kickstarter would be great for this, especially building a community.
Maybe a way would be to do a 5$ Kickstarter for people to get early access to the app, even before their friends can buy it from the App Store. This could work through the Apple Enterprise Program, but it might not be allowed in the small print...
That could generate some hype, and backers would have something exclusive for a while till it´s available in the app store. It also would build a community that surely gives great feedback and the first few iterations wouln´t need to go through the app store approval process (which would mean faster iterations / feedback).
Thanks... that really motivates :)... Let´s do some market research here if you don´t mind: how much would you pay and what price do you think is fair?
Domo arrigato gozaimas... you seem to have some experience in marketing apps... would be great to talk a bit about how you would approach it and if what part (if any) you still would work on... we´re at [email protected]
Thanks for your offer, sure we´d like to hear from you. It is already a iPhone app, although limited by time constraints one build in PhoneGap rather than native. We probably will move the app into a native app, or extend PhoneGap via plugins for more advanced sound functionalities like filters.
Our emails by the way are thomas / martin @ the app domain...
One thing that would be great to add to the overview (if you´ve still got the demo files) is how large the download is - it´s one of the things that spoke against Bryntum's solution (over 2 MB!).
If it wouldn´t be for using Ext.js and the large code size, this one is the most polished in terms of look and function:
http://bryntum.com/products/gantt/
If you need any help with styling it a bit differnt, give me a shout :)
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