You need to translate things for an international rollout which takes time. Plus US is a known devil and easier to rollout and look at numbers to fix the glitches.
Also the headphone jack is available on all phones and if you develop for 30 pin interface, you have to design different hardware connector for different phones
the issue i face is, when i start working on my side project at 8pm i just want to keep working on it and before i realize its 3/4am and now i am late for office next day :(
why will foursquare and gowalla in trouble. Apple's blog clearly says you cant get user location only for ads but if you are using it for other features you can get it and use it anyway you like.
i will say unless you plan to make small changes, you wont get much out of studying the source code. fixing small bugs in an open source project will expose you to lot of portions of source code and also give you some rep in case you want to become a contributor later
if i had the money, i will increase my hiring spend as you can get much better people because number of new startups reduce and also less competition in hiring
If the screen which you want to A/B test is not the first screen, you can make background calls to your server and based on result decide which screen to show. Write to user settings when you want to permanently disable it.
Note:
i) Reasoning behind not having it as first screen as it really slows the application launch.
ii) You should make sure that if webservice call takes too long, just pick one default which is shown to user instead of waiting for result
iii) if you really want to do it for first screen, load and save the result in user settings for next launch while the application is running
Its a completely new backend they are using so ordering of results is different.
From searchengineland:
"Based on the blog post, we can guess that this new infrastructure may include ways of crawling the web more comprehensively, determining reputation and authority (possibly beyond the link graph and what’s typically thought of as PageRank), and returning more relevant results more quickly, although Google’s Matt Cutts told me that the changes are primarily in how we index.Google’s new search is only infrastructure related and includes no UI changes."
you seem to be missing a very critical point in using financial projections.
Yeah, apple will keep gaining share in US but guess who will win in the emerging markets like China, India and Brazil. Microsoft will now start reaping rewards for its years of giving OS for free to these markets (basically by not cracking on piracy).
In these countries, its not about coolness or design. Its about the price.
Want an example? Guess how many iPhones sold in India?
i actually wanted to use HN from RSS reader but so many stories get pushed that it was practically useless. So i created a filter which pushes stories to rss only when they gain 20 votes or more before being pushed out of front-page: