olivercameron

MySpace had nowhere near the audience of Facebook, today. And yes, I mean a product that has nearly 750 million active users.

Jeez, you guys don't see the significance of a product having 750 million active users? I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it's historical significance, especially without any precedent.

That may be true, but give the guy a little credit, he created a service that has 750 million active users. How many other people can say that?

We actually made that app, we've taken a lot of the tech from there and used it in Everyme.

Thanks!

iOS and web at first, then followed shortly by Android.

We're working on it, great to hear what people's specific problems are! Thanks.

We've definitely learnt from Plaxo's mistakes. Our invite system is incredibly polite, for example if 10 people invite you, you'll only ever get one email.

iCloud is basically just for syncing your contacts that you manually created. We actually use iCloud to make syncing everywhere possible.

For example, if a person changes their phone number, that gets pushed to Everyme, which then is pushed to iCloud. As such, all of your devices now have the up-to-date info.

Thanks, good point, I'll change that.

I'm leaning very much towards everyone owning their own data. If someone doesn't want you to have their phone number, but you already know it, I don't think it's fair that the number should be deleted.

As Everyme syncs everywhere, deleting any type of info would be very, very bad.

Both at launch, shortly followed by Android support.

This isn't a test, we definitely have something here.

Hey guys, founder of Everyme here. As for why this is different than a contact list, imagine if your address book was kept accurate and up-to-date magically. If a friend changes their phone number, why should your address book get out of date?

Couple that with having everything about your contacts at your fingertips (posts, messages, profiles), awesome automatic grouping, syncing to everywhere, and you have a completely new address book.

I've never understood the appeal of Onswipe or iPad themes. The iPad has a gorgeous large screen and a browser that is fully featured and capable (minus Flash), so why do websites resort to dumbing down pages for it? The iPhone, I can see a market for, but not the iPad or similar form factored devices.

Why can't websites be websites and apps be apps?

"Mr. Nguyen said the company had taken the criticism to heart and charted a new course".

"Photos might not even be a part of Color in the future, he said".

Sounds like a pivot to me.

Even though I don't agree with raising $41 million for a "concept", you've got to give them credit where credit is due. Admitting all of your failures in a NYTimes article is a very brave thing to do.

I think Color is a lesson for any entrepreneur, just because you can raise a lot of money doesn't mean that your product will be successful. You really need to work on it and test it with real people to see if it's viable.

This time? A bubble was widely reported back in the late 90's too. It's not like it came out of nowhere.

Did you see Card Case? No hardware, apart from your mobile phone required: http://squareup.com/cardcase

I'm not saying its invincible at all, I'm saying comparing PayPal and Bitcoin isn't appropriate considering they're very different.

Not at all. PayPal could not be more different than Bitcoin (centralised, insured etc.).

Edit: I'm not defending PayPal, I'm saying Bitcoin and PayPal are two different systems.

This is exactly why Bitcoin will never take off outside of the geek world. Can you imagine, in a world where millions used Bitcoin, the media fallout if users were being robbed with zero way to reclaim their money?

Knowing how little "regular" people protect their devices, this scares me.

For software that the developer can update instantly (an OS update doesn't count), then yes, this is a great methodology to live by. Hardware is a completely different beast, and costs significantly more for the purchaser and should be tested to extreme levels before launching.

Then something is wrong with your iPhone. Many news sources[1] say the Droid X2 lasts literally hours (5 in this test), due to the multi-core processor.

1. http://www.laptopmag.com/review/cell-phones/motorola-droid-x...

Of course you don't think about Apple's share of profit when you're buying the iPhone, but when you're discussing the iPhone's long term future, the fact it makes an immense amount of profit is very much relevant.

To each his own. I enjoy simplicity on my phone, excellent battery life, and the odd game, as such, I use an iPhone. It doesn't mean that either way is right, but it also doesn't mean that Apple is destined to repeat their failures.

Bare in mind that although Android outsells iPhone's, Apple still has 40% of the profit of the entire smartphone industry.

Apple is notorious for doing very few acquisitions, I fail to see why Twitter, a company that is struggling to monetize, would be the exception. What leg up does Twitter give them and does it have the potential to generate billions in revenue? I have my doubts. See Apple's half-hearted attempt with Ping to show where their priorities lie.

If Apple really wanted to do a social network, they could very easily have already, Twitter doesn't solve any problems for them.

With all of Flash's security issues, I am not surprised Apple doesn't let native Flash apps on their own store.

This argument has been played to death, and Adobe never seem to let it go. The fact is, Apple owes Adobe nothing, and not including Flash was never a dig at Adobe as a company, but a choice that Apple made about Flash as a software package. Adobe seem to have taken it super personally, but the truth is that Flash on mobile devices just doesn't work in it's current form (speed and usability issues). Steve has said multiple times that the door isn't closed on Flash, they just need Adobe to prove it will perform like Apple expects.

You really don't think Groupon has a plan, however flawed, to go from large revenues to large profits?