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Curious if this will have the same issue that Google Wave had; attempting to change a paradigm that is well understood.
If you all aren't in it full time, I would say why try? I tried bootstrapping a startup and doing part time with 3 others... it's too slow of a model.
Lower the barrier - provide payment channels. Or, go get on the street and try to make a dollar.
Easy (yet long) fix:
on iPhone - Disable iMessage from the settings menu.
- Go back to messages and send a standard text message to the phone number.
- Enable iMessage from the settings menu.
Done.
The funny thing is the fact that everybody is ignoring that the patch wasn't a patch. It was a POC (read demonstration) with the notes:
'...This patch is a variant of what we've been using to help protect customer keys for a decade.
This should really be considered more of a proof of concept than something that you want to put directly into production. It slides into the ASN1 code rather than adding a new API (OPENSSL_secure_allocate et al), the overall code isn't portable, and so on. If there is community interest, we would be happy to help work on addressing those issues. Let me restate that: do not just take this patch and put it into production without careful review.'
BS. That's all I have to say. It's like Groupwise, worked well within Groupwise but once it leaves the system it's out to the wild-wild-west.
It's satire, even the name of the CEO is incorrect:
"We are proud to introduce Uber Rickshaw, Uber Bike, and Uber Piggyback.” stated the CEO, Travis Parker Monday morning.
My partners and I took our seed funds that we put up on our own into a bank account. We signed up for a saving account, checking and got a credit card at the same time. It's based solely off of the founders for a bootstrapped firm.