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Fun fact: AMEX has been involved in international payments in one way or another for more than a 100 years and the AMEX card was the first international charge card, launched the same year as the original BofA Visa Card.

FWIW Monday night games are available on standard ESPN and, sometimes, ABC and Sunday night games are on NBC. So you don't strictly speaking need Peacock or ESPN+

Did not expect to see this here, but spot on.

As a former vendor working with customers across the e-commerce spectrum, Shopify were certainly the best to work with from both a technology integration and ease of use standpoint. They're a rare example of a company that started very self service and remained that way while growing to significantly more complex client bases so has a wide appeal. Working with them was generally a treat.

Demandware weren't strictly speaking the worst to work with, but it was certainly better days when they were an independent organization vs part of the Salesforce behemoth. There's just a lot more red tape slowing everything down, which I think carries over to the customer experience....things take days/weeks/months in SFCC land that can be done in minutes/hours/days in Shopify land.

All that is to say I'm not at all surprised by the headline, that I'd be long Shopify as an investor, and I'd seriously look at them first as a developer if I were building in the e-commerce space.

I've seen dot matrix still used at car dealerships so doesn't totally surprise me there'd still be plenty of industry uses

I would guess that Apple's ability to get a return on its cash are likely to exceed the total of taxes, interest, and fees.

You have the Elias Sports Bureau to thank for all the fun baseball stats out there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Sports_Bureau

Idk, all of that also feels a bit like being in a coffin for some, especially if you're going reasonably far into the tube. I do get the sleepiness bit, though personally would prefer it cooler.

NYC has had shockingly low minimum wage:

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/spotlight-minimum-wage/

I specifically remember being a teenager around that time and trying to math out a part time job at McDonalds for 5.35 an hour and realizing how tough it all was.

Usually the largest of companies will have their own customized T&Cs governed in their Master Services Agreement (MSA) which are often very modified versions of these publicly available ones

Anecdotally, I've seen it closer to $10/month for car or smartwatch, and $0 for Kindle though I'm not entirely sure if they're still shipping cellular. Tablets are closer to that $20-$30, though.

Cell companies will sell connectivity to whoever will buy it though. Cars, watches, and anything IoT they can get their signal to.

This is a great tip as most people only know of the big 3, thanks for sharing

There's even a subset of runners that would argue you don't even need shoes!

I don't know if this will be the thing that changes the narrative for Sony but I do know that, historically, Sony have been quite resilient over time.

They've been trying the latter for years. Consumers don't really care too much.

South Korea was like this too but they thankfully switched recently. It's not uncommon to receive addresses in both the old and new style since most locals grew up on the former.

What's tragic is that it was originally coined "If it ain't boing, I ain't going" back when their brand stood for quality.

On top of all the illegality involved in signal jamming....in fairness, AT&T signal in Miami is pretty awful no matter where you go IME

My understanding is there are already federal incentives to get less dense areas wired, though I'm not up to speed on the state of that - a quick Google tells me that USDA has loan and grants for it but unclear how well funded that is and how that would impact economics at $15 and $20 a month.

Given that more than half of the population of NY is in NYC and Long Island, I would imagine that there is enough density and economic diversity at least downstate to make this at minimum cost neutral though this is total conjecture.

As an aside, I remember the days of companies partnering with CLECs taking advantage of rural connectivity loopholes to create free conference calling services by billing larger upstream carriers and splitting that revenue with service providers, which was pretty clever.

Check out this fun map curtesy of NYC who do a pretty good job exposing a lot of these type of data https://maps.nyc.gov/sandbox/poletop-finder/

I struggle to think of places that are more customer friendly overall than the US. There are certainly some companies with generally less favorable reputations like, say, Comcast but that's often a result of having a captive audience. One might even argue that our largest consumer oriented companies span so many different industries but all share good customer service and experience as a cornerstone.

This thread has certainly made me reconsider Zoho as a recommendation for cost-conscious SMBs.

There are more smartphones in use than people on the planet so it stands to reason that for many, the smartphone IS their interface to the world the way the desktop was (and maybe still is) for many of us. Seems more like an opportunity to implement a different design paradigm than something to be dismissed outright.

While we can debate plenty on what the right amount of App Store fees might be, it is objectively true that developers absolutely care about the market of available consumers on the high end platform.

It should be noted that First Round have done a great job putting out content for many years.

https://review.firstround.com is a great resource for founders

I'm not aware of any pure platform available off the shelf, though I imagine a big enough checkbook and a conversation with Magna might get you pretty far, but you can buy from Ford the Mustang Mach-E motor https://performanceparts.ford.com/part/M-9000-MACHE

Delta and United both do, with Delta being the largest operator of both types.

In the second quarter of 2021, mobile devices accounted for 63 percent of YouTube viewing time worldwide. In contrast, consoles and connected TVs reported a share of views corresponding to three percent and 14 percent of the total, respectively.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1173543/youtube-viewing-....

Apple will sell you 4K downloads through iTunes. IME they're pretty good about getting you on to the latest/highest quality version of something if there is ever an upscaled edition released.