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Yeah I wonder they did a backroom deal with Apple and Google. These backroom deals that Apple/Google are doing is so anti competitive for small app developers and they keep on stressing that they are helping millions of developers. If this is not unfair I don't know what is.

Have you thought about streaming emulators from the cloud? I know it sounds crazy but if we can stream games, why not android emulator?

So Facebook paid 5.7 billion dollar to buy "influence" in India. The biggest influencer of India is Mukesh Ambani who has strong influence in Indian politics. Now it will be a matter of months and WhatsApp payments will get regulatory approval to go ahead to launch WhatsApp payments in India. That is the boss move here IMO. Jio is just a way to solve for regulatory hurdles in India.

How different is the tracking that TikTok does compared to what Facebook and Google does? Except may be TikTok might be shipping this data off to the Chinese?

This is perfect for their name. Passing money from rich (VCs) to poor people

Our founding team left or were made to leave by the acquirer. For one year everyone kind of relaxed because we all made money. After that our management team left had no vision because they were bunch of execs hired recently. They lacked innovation and kept beating around the bush and left in 2 years of the acquisition. At this point most of old timers left the company because of lack of innovation or anything to do. I becomes like a graveyard.

Just like giant corporate balance sheets?

What are returns of VC firms generally? Anyone has done analysis on this?

In the past 5 years in Bay Area. My rent has been increasing by 9-10% every year, so I welcome this law.

I have a strong feeling that Uber will be launching their standalone mapping service soon

No Apple is not capturing most of the revenue from App Store. Their services revenue which is App Store + iCloud + Apple Music is their second biggest revenue stream I think after iPhone. But it still dwarfs in front of iPhone. Though services revenue is growing a lot faster.

Considering there expenses are $80m in 2018, I think it is okey if they keep some surplus as a cushion.

Have you tried using Franz? https://meetfranz.com/

Put outline.com prefix in front of the article's URL.

How about JQL? Their query editor is so buggy.

This had been possible with iOS before. It was this workflow app (https://workflow.is/) which app bought to integrate more natively in iOS

You mean Facebook? I know Facebook used to do this for a while

Apple won't outsource its products design to someone else. That's not Apple

You're on hacker news so it is easier for you to say that who falls for this crap. Ground reality is completely different. Lot of young and mature people can fall for this crap. It's like saying who falls for fake news these days. It is gonna be a learning curve for normal people to understand nuances of these scams.

There is search at the bottom of the page.

Any TLDR version of this video?

You could try postmates