olivercameron

Incredibly well deserved. If we all learn one thing from Sir Jony Ive, it's that simplicity wins out every single time.

Really happy to see him get mainstream recognition, because he truly should be up there with all the other well-known genius Brit's like Branson and Dyson.

Because neither Apple or Google have a monopoly on the browser market anywhere near what Microsoft had. Also, Microsoft was sued for actively thwarting competition[1] in order to maintain it's position.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft

Let's not forget the relatively high return rate[1] on Android devices.

1. http://androidcommunity.com/android-return-rate-30-40-on-som...

Oh please, Apple isn't toast. Michael Dell said something similar, and look how that turned out. What good is market share when you are making no money because of it? Apple has it right, they're making way more money than all the other handset companies and are constantly voted #1 in handset satisfaction. What's so wrong with that?

When Android return[1] rates[2] drop below 10%, then we'll talk.

1. http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/26/androids-dirty-secret-shipp...

2. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20030211-37.html

He's becoming their Apple columnist, so he's not full-time anymore.

This adds a whole other dimension to Parse for me. Core Data is useful, but incredibly annoying to deal with at times (migrations etc.), I've been waiting for the Parse guys to replace Core Data, and it looks like they've done it.

Previous to TestFlight, life was ridiculously painful for an iPhone developer to beta test apps. I wish they'd charge me, it's that good. I'd probably pay at least $100 a month.

With a probable non-compete?

Tech news just became a whole lot more boring. I, for one, will miss his scoops, they were always the most exciting, scandalous ones.

Most new founders don't live in San Francisco. YC encourages you, and rightly so, to live in and around Mountain View, where rent is much, much cheaper than the city.

Thanks! And good luck with the application.

For the love of God, take your time to find a co-founder. I entered YC as a single founder, and ended up finding a co-founder half way through, it'll happen when it's the right time.

YC looks for amazing teams, they can tell if you just joined up with someone last week and have no clue about one another.

From my experience of entering YC as a single founder, you need to find a key and simple differentiator that separates you from all of the co-founded companies applying. It should be super clear and concise why you are going to succeed when other's aren't. Statistically, single founder companies fail a hell of a lot more than co-founded companies, you need to give them a reason to take a chance on you.

Also, don't place too much importance on the idea, they know you'll figure it out eventually.

Customer of VidCaster? I don't think so, check his previous comments:

"I happen to know Kieran Farr quite well. http://www.vidcaster.com/ was one of the first companies in our Co-op incubator. And, I have no doubt, that Kieran is going to be far richer than some reporter who still makes his living writing for a company that think that selling yesterday's news written on pieces of dead tree is a viable business model."

This trend of other companies trying to hijack other companies launches is really disappointing, especially when said company is in your incubator. Why not submit something for Vidcaster separately?

Can't Wait! is awesome. Movie trailers are actually perfectly sized bits of content to be consumed when you're bored, it also happens to one of the few bits of content I love to see my friends recommend.

The app is really well put together too, I've gotten used to apps scrolling tons of images to be rather bad performing, but Can't Wait! scrolls like a champ.

You guys are onto something here, my Wife is trying to learn to code and finds books really tough to get instant feedback from. Also, that little intro on the front page getting people to code without them knowing is genius!

Even if it's 250,000 sold, that's still not even a dent in iPad sales.

You mean the same Motorola Xoom that may have sold as few as 25,000[1] units?

1. http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal-tech/tablets/22...

You can tell this is going to be an amazing read:

"I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that, he said. But I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out." - Steve Jobs

It's not the the job of the press to hold people accountable, the law should do that, which I think it has in terms of Facebook.

An idea is something waiting to be executed on. No execution and, in my eyes at least, you can't own that idea because how do you know it's unique to you? Everyone had ideas for a tablet, Microsoft created many that were total failures, it took a visionary like Steve Jobs to create the most useful and popular tablet in the world. See my point?

I do like what you're working on, it just seems that every time Mark Zuckerberg is mentioned, you jump in and mention how wronged you were. Move on and put Facebook behind you, you don't want a reputation like the Winklevosses.

You do not sound like you've moved on, at all.

You should really let this go. Mark was clearly inspired by you and others, but he did something that you didn't, he made something that people wanted. He out-innovated you. It's all about the execution, your idea is nothing but an idea until people are actually using it.

Release what you're working on and wow us, just don't spend your time posting bitter comments on Hacker News every time Mark Zuckerberg is brought up.

Dropbox already has 25 million[1] users.

1. http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/17/dropbox-hits-25-millions-us...

It's interesting that Twitter seems to be getting a similar backlash to what Facebook did when they launched the News Feed, and look how that turned out. Some people loved it, some people hated it (a lot), but I can't imagine Facebook without it today.

This is going to change how people interact with Twitter, moving from one single place to consume to two, I'm curious how that will work out. I don't think I'd look at it all that often, it just feels like another place they will eventually cover with ads.

"I'll first say that "purchase a .. iPad for their next computer." is completely ridiculous. A tablet cannot fill the needs of a user yet"

You'd be surprised by how many people just use a computer to check their email and browse the web, all of which can be handled on an iPad simply and beautifully. My Wife and Mother have both stopped using computers altogether, iPad is all they need.

This is getting insane. The app is now sitting at number 4 in the Top 100 paid apps, and he also just jacked the price up from $1.99 to $2.99.

Surely staying off Apple's radar was his best bet? Instead he's decided to make a relatively quick buck selling 50,000 copies per day. I seriously hope Apple withholds his pay check when it is inevitably taken down.

Unfortunately, scams like this aren't new on the App Store. Ever since the App Store has been around there's been seedy apps perpetrating to do things that just aren't possible. You just have to do a search for apps like "location trackers" to see how widespread it is.

I saw this particular app in the Top 100 around 2 months ago, and noticed it had an average rating of 1 star, how this has evaded being on Apple's radar for this long is beyond me.

Apple has taken a lot of flak for being too stringent and strict with the App Store review process, but this is one area the whole process was designed to fix. This is literally a case of a single guy falsely advertising his app and, by all accounts, having hundreds of thousands people fall for it and pay $1.99 for the privilege of being screwed.

I wonder how many of the departed will end up at The Obvious Corporation?

Ever since I saw the Cultured Code status page[1] a few months ago, I have been wanting this product. I think a lot of companies would benefit from being more open with their customers about progress.

1. http://culturedcode.com/status