Source: https://twitter.com/TO/status/1487051835475116038Anyone working on freemium iOS App with unlockable features/subscription outside of app store like Hey (Email) and seen these new iOS payments compliance guidelines?Thought DHH and Jason Fried already won this battle or does this apply to something else?
I just saw an update on this from the compliance guidelines and seems to go against the whole ordeal they came out on top of two years ago.
The article you shared appears to conflict with what this startup is offering.
> It's being called a "temporary protocol" that so far, has only been used once on April 5. Nassoura said the process starts by the victim calling law enforcement and then, "The officer goes to the victim's residence, places it (the sexual assault test) on the front door step, waits in the vehicle. The victim then goes to the front door gets the sample and they begin a zoom video call." That zoom video call involves a forensic nurse, the detective and a victim advocate. Once the victim's statement is taken by the officer, the nurse is the only one that remains on the call. The victim then self-collects the sample under the nurse's guidance and direction.
And to your point:
> Moreover, further research will show you that the startup explicitly encourages survivors to visit a hospital or contact law enforcement if at all possible.
The problem is, this startup's business model specifically relies on victims not visiting the hospital.
> Ask sexual assault survivors what they would like to see instead.
They would probably want their evidence to be admitted in court, rather than raise reasonable doubt.
From the same article you posted:
> Defense attorneys worry that allowing victims to conduct their own rape exams could result in cross-contamination and raise issues of reasonable doubt. “If you want to frame someone, it’s easy to get their DNA onto a swab where you do a sex assault kit, and say, ‘Oh, look, here’s their DNA,’” criminal defense attorney Mark Reichel told the AP. Since they first hit the market last year, there has been a push to ban DIY kits for reasons like this.
Also from the article you posted:
> Northern California has issued a temporary order allowing rape kits to be collected by the survivor, at home, while a nurse walks them through the process via video call
It appears this is temporary.
Secondly, revenues can't go to infinity. Not only is infinity an uncountable times bigger than a Googol, but market sizes are limited. Organic growth is limited.
It is much easier to cut costs than increase revenue in business. This is why most large companies prefer to cut costs rather than invest in innovation.
The best entrepreneurs are frugal. Warren Buffett is famously frugal and prefers to invest in frugal entrepreneurs. To the point where Buffett once bragged about investing in an entrepreneur who was so frugal he resorted to counting the sheets of toilet paper at his business because he thought he was being cheated (he was).
Who do you use and why?
True. I'm questioning where is the trade-off and balance between making it more difficult to cancel vs. trying to fix what's wrong.
Big companies like Comcast are just doing this to extract every penny.
A startup trying to survive and make their product better for customers--or fix something that went wrong--is completely different situation IMO.
1) They make it easy to cancel when you call
2) They only try to offer you some free stuff to stay as a customer
My guess is the startup here is trying to learn why customers are cancelling so they can improve the product and they care about keeping customers happy.
Almost all non-web companies make you call to cancel, so I don't see what the big deal is.
The only mistake here is with the email back and forth. Probably the customer support person didn't understand WHY the startup was doing this and made the situation worse.
Another way to say this is that 65% of the wealthiest people were born into the top 5%.
http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ufe/legacy_url/410/Born...
You can only briefly see which friends have also already signed up.
Of course psychopaths exists. Most people are not psychopaths, though. And especially the CEOs you mention may have problems to persist.
I still prefer those "CEO psychopaths" to people feeding on government money (people in useless jobs paid for with taxpayer money).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201...
Any statement that has the word "only" in it is guaranteed to be wrong. I wonder if PG worded it this way intentionally (straw man fallacy).
Most people agree early employees should get more equity. This doesn't address whether startup founders are hoarding equity for themselves and their investors instead of fairly rewarding early employees.
The reason Airtable, Notion, Monday, and others are so successful is because they do precisely the opposite of what the author is suggesting.
This is the same reason most workflow software starts out as a replacement to Excel and Spreadsheets, but people continue to resort to Excel and Spreadsheets.
This is brilliant, why don't community organizations spring up all over to do this?