Most of the use-cases for requiring a phone number to sign up for a service e.g. Twitter, Signal seems to be to avoid spam. Atleast allegedly!
What alternatives can be used instead, something that is easily accessible/available to the general public but not easy to obtain to create mass users?
Has anyone managed to get this setup at their router level? I am planning to go nomad, and I am trying to see if I can use USA VPN while I'm in Brazil. My employer doesn't allow working from non-US IPs.
Last I looked at Uber's financials, 90-95% of their expenses was driver earnings. And then you have operating expenses that includes employees, promotions, r&d, regulatory fees, marketing, support, new investments etc.
Uber's margin is probably under 5% which simply isn't enough.
I would love to see some discussion around this as well. I have been playing with Apache Corodova and Windows 10 SDK lately and they look very promising. Being a web developer, I found them to be easy to get started.
Are there complex apps built using phonegap/swift/cordova? What are the limitations? I know Facebook tried with a 'web app' approach and reverted back to native solution. But that was years ago.
What alternatives can be used instead, something that is easily accessible/available to the general public but not easy to obtain to create mass users?