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This is not wrong, but for the majority of developers isn't it something like make people subscribe to Amazon Prime even if they only buy one book each year?

I feel most people aren't so upset about the idea or reasons behind a yearly fee so much as the yearly fee being so high.

but what percentage of mobile users?

"[...]unit tests are not critical. If there’s no unit test the customer isn’t going to complain about that."

Love this quote. It's absolutely true, but the programmers who inherit and have to take care of you code are probably going to have a lot to say about it.

I hope you didn't buy that domain name with no idea what to use it for.

I also hope you're not asking people to come up with a unique business idea for you.

Man, I could really go some pizza delivery science fiction parody right about now...

True, unless you're actively working in the terminal, in which case it's kind of a pain to switch to, I'm gonna say.

I agree with this ↑. I would not pay for vim coaching.

More specifically, I don't personally like the idea of coaching because it I just don't like that style of learning. To me, a video course would allow the user to dip in and out, grant more flexibility, and generally be more value for money.

The laracasts focusing on vim, or emacs rocks series are good examples.

To be honest though, I don't think I'd pay for a video series either. There's already so many good resources for using vim.

In my humble opinion, asking this question here is probably not going to resonate with the audience you would be looking for in any case.

Okay, fine. Then we ramp it up by employing hundreds of clowns to hide in the bushes on the side of the road and jump out when the driver least expects it.

"They are inherently readable with cat and the naked eye."

I think there are ways you can get repeat purchases without the subscription model. Yes, having the CC details stored (actually, having some kind of token stored, ala Stipe) would make repeat purchases easier.

There are probably other things you could do to speed up the process. Maybe a sticker (or mug) with a QR code that leads to the purchase screen. Something that's always in front of my face that I can scan when I realise I'm down to my last cup.

Subscriptions are fine, and there's no way you should drop that model, but having both options would be way better.

That's not a joke. Melbourne coffee is definitely better than Sydney coffee.

Oooh... Ouch... Cancelation by emailing somebody is really not cool... That should be the sort of thing that can be done automatically with the hit of a switch. If you could get your programmer to set that up it would be a good step.

Also, no shipping to Japan?

I'd like to try this out but without shipping to my region I suppose that's me out.

There's plenty of programs which are native to the environment they work in which are also slow and bloated.

I agree. I spent quite a few years working in Digital Preservation, and what we found is that as evil as you paint them, a big corporation with lots of money will outlast an individual with pure motivations. That's why we can still read DOC files today.

Speaking realistically, investing your personal data in this project is currently a much greater risk than using Evernote.

> You really think that Apple removed the headphone jack to make a bit more cash? Seriously? Hand-on-heart honestly, you think that's why? Come on.

Yes.

And honestly, if you think a big company like Apple does anything without the motivation of making money, then frankly you're being starry-eyed and naive.

Maybe if they were a little start-up or something, sure, I could buy that argument. But yes, I entirely, whole-heartedly believe that Apple is doing this for money. If not, why not release the air pods first, then release a few generations of iPhones with audio jacks? It's not like having that little hole in the bottom of a phone would stop Apple from generating more "magical" technology.

I don't doubt Apple thinks that air pods are cool, but come on, seriously.

I don't think they see this as a music device either. I think they see it as a way of making money from their decision to remove the audio jack from the phone.

That said, you're spot on with your forecasts of how great this could be, the AR of audio is potentially awesome.

It shouldn't. As a 35 year old who never got a CS degree but currently works in a tech company in Osaka, the whole article scanned like it was mostly relevant 10 years ago to me.

I've made it a habit of mine never to read articles whose titles are obviously click bait. Why not? The reason might surprise you!

I really hope not. That would be kind of like saying "this pre-flight checklist hasn't failed for years, so let's just skip them before we take off."