15 5 / 2012
"Interesting. Friendships and platform vision. With around 20-30k daily active users (according to AppData), it probably wasn’t money raised based on user adoption."
12 5 / 2012
"Yet when the growth of the network itself slows, as it too inevitably will, Facebook—as a publicly traded leviathan whose mandate is to increase profits—will need to find new ways of slicing and dicing humanity into groups that will respond to marketing."
05 5 / 2012
"To me, the most beautiful thing about the access model in general and Spotify’s freemium model in particular, is that it allows you to discover music without a marginal cost per track, so you tend to drastically widen your music taste. And because it turns music from a file into a link, you can easily share that music. So I think we will see more innovation in social music experiences and discovery over the coming years."
05 5 / 2012
"I’m actually very big on album artwork, because I think the artwork communicates a lot about the artist and the record."
05 5 / 2012
"If Randall Stephenson is kept up at night by iMessage, he is a very shallow thinker. Text messaging was dead the second a mobile phone connected to the internet."
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05 5 / 2012
"I don’t hack because of some ideology,” he said. “I hack because I’m bored."
01 5 / 2012
"a geek brain–what we define as an obsessive curiosity in an area of interest and the ability to notice anomalies, overcoming the conventional wisdom that constrains others."
01 5 / 2012
"A professional writing tool is like a scalpel, not like a Swiss army knife. What a writer needs first of all is a program that lets him get his thoughts out."
01 5 / 2012
"Better writing tools won’t make you a better writer, but they will make working more fun."
01 5 / 2012
"Campos said an accent like a simple one-pixel stroke may look terrific on Android devices with a high resolution, “then we pull out a handful of older devices and it just looks bad.” In these situations, the developer has to rethink the design element and account for different cases in the app’s code."
