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I'm also curious in this if anyone has an answer.


I read this title much more literally, I thought they had seen an uptick in physical tiny piano sales (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/Schroeder_Pian...)


Here is an official statement from the city http://www.dublin.ca.gov/civicalerts.aspx?AID=351


It's a good service, but unless they bring prices way down, some big provider (Cough Amazon..) is going to come in and eat their lunch. Granted they probably wouldn't offer the level of detailed APIs that Twillio does.

We started using them for SMS sending but went with Nexmo at a fraction of the cost.


I believe their exit strategy is to be acquired by Amazon or someone of their scale. They drive their entire platform on Amazon AWS and the Rackspace cloud system, and Jeff (one of the Twilio co-founders) was previously the product manager for AWS.

I went to both Twiliocon and interviewed with Twilio. They're very smart guys, but the problem is that its a race to the bottom. Their idea is innovative (webapps <-> telco integration), but anyone can do it once they learn how to handle the SMS messages between the web and the carrier gateways, as well as how to handle call flows with Asterisk or Freeswitch.

Also, to me, it appears they're swimming upstream. Everyone else is moving towards unlimited voice/sms, while they're trying to stick to per minute/per sms rates (even for their VoIP offering!).

Awesome idea, excellent execution, not a long term business model.


How is Nexmo compared to Tropo?


This is crazy, happened only a couple miles away from my house...


Definitely a cool, will make porting iOS apps easier. However, a lot of the ideas in UIKit are meant for a touchscreen and wont translate well.


Sure but it's all in how you use it. Not everything comes over cleanly but a lot does. AppKit is old and crufty and doesn't play well with Core Animation. Since Chameleon is Core Animation-based, it's already off to a better start than AppKit.


This is what I was trying to say, but it's much more concise. Thank you :)


Two chicks at the same time


Actually a pretty solid advice and in accordance with the article.

Do that.

Postpone all the rest for a year.


That doesn't take a billion dollars. Hookers are cheap (even if you go for the higher quality ones) and if you have more time than money, there are URLs that can help you http://themysterymethod.net/, http://realsocialdynamics.com/ etc.

Or the real shortcut: be a cocky, funny and extremely self confident asshole. For more details see roissy.wordpress.com.

Finally, a warning: plenty of plenty of people who venture down this route end up loosing any and all respect they ever had for women. The benefit is (potentially) at lot of sex.


As someone who has been down this route, IMO taking the lead, being good-humoured and having sex with a shitload of women is _entirely_ mutually exclusive with not respecting them. It's exactly this kind of thinking that a) makes women feel ashamed about their sexuality (thus making it harder for everyone involved to get laid, especially women) and b) casts the 'seduction community' in an overwhelmingly negative light.

And paying for it is bad for your soul dude.


As an atheist, I don't need a soul anyway.

But I don't plan on going down that route myself.


Two insanely hot chicks at the same time < FTFY


I think you mean sarcasm detector


Sarcasm and irony overlap. This was both.


My pedantry detector is working spot on, however.


This is what happens when there's not enough quality coffee in my cup prior to hitting HN in the morning.


SJ believes that his job is to make shareholders rich and by doing so, gives them the means to be charitable. I would tend to agree with him.


Seems like a trickle-down economics type of excuse to me. If they really wanted to do that they really could do it like Buffet used to http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/1997ar/shcontri.html


As a corporation Apple profits massively from society.

One might say they owe something back.

With the extreme loyalty of it's userbase, they could set some very nice examples.

Why Steve Jobs isn't personally charitable with $5B in the bank is a rather depressing mystery.


"One might say they owe something back"

One could say that they are giving something back, by using those profits to develop ways to make computing more accessible and useful, something they're better at and more willing to invest in than anyone else.


I totally agree with this post. Charity does not only come in the form of monetary donations...


Let me repeat that back to you as I understood it.

What you are saying is Apple (and their work) is $deity's gift to the world so they don't owe anything else regardless how many billions of dollars they make from it.

People in parts of the world that need help to survive or thrive more than a meager existence, aren't helped by Apple's pretty software UI and hardware design.


You can use the argument that people in third-world countries are starving to bash just about anything that anybody on this site does for a living.

If you truly believed that argument, you wouldn't be wasting your own disposable income on broadband and a cell phone.


So?


Only to those who can afford it.


US society has already decided what Apple owes back each year, via the IRS. I don't see why it's fair to expect them to dispose of more of their shareholders' money than some other companies in the same position. It's not as if their shareholders would reach a consensus about an unrelated social problem to solve, much less make an empty gesture towards solving (charities can't fix the free rider issue, which is why they almost never get enough resources to actually succeed and shut down).


As a massive corporation, I am sure Apple doesn't pay very much taxes, mostly because all their manufacturing is outside the US.

Note that some large corporations pay next to nothing.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/01/ge-exxon-walmart-business-w...


> One might say they owe something back.

What, the wonderful computers they make for us are not enough?


No. Apparently, you are not allowed to make a profit without feeling guilty.


Yes, all those fashionable computers they sell for what would be years of income in many countries are really helping the non-rich world.


Personally charitable & publicly charitable are two different things. Unless you know something the rest of us don't, I would be careful passing judgement on someone you only see in keynote speaking environments.


Apple benefits from individuals. Why are strangers entitled to their profits?


What a silly excuse to give nothing back - both Apple and Jobs individually are sitting on ridiculous amounts of money regardless of what their shareholders do with their own money.


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