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The business model is driving these poor choices.

This article addresses the business model which I believe would make room for better site experiences.

https://stratechery.com/2017/the-local-news-business-model/

Overall the site looks nice and functions well.

The ticker a the top is hard to use as I could not see that you could scroll.

I like the concept of the 101 section, could use some more info.

I believe and based on the links below the data is sold by different entities to companies like Intelius etc.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-data-brokers-...

http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/8690215-74/drivers-inform...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/us-states-s...

I wonder if this going to morph into the new platform. Eventually they would allow third party access like kik.

The following ur throws an error http://www.textingbase.com/careers

The idea of boosting national pride might be the end goal in mind. They don't need commercial success. If they want to convey the idea to the nation that we can design and build on par and maybe even better than the rest of the world. Just feeling good about yourself has benefits.

Not sure by your statement if you have children or not. But I just finished enrolling my children in a private school instead of the local public school. I really don't care if they are black or white I want my children to go to a school where the parents value education as much as I do.

I thought hacking was about taking things that are purposed for one thing and re-making/re-programming it to do what you want it to do.

If people feel that Apple has created a walled garden they should get one and show us their vision on how it should operate.

The hardware is second to none, you want a camera put one in it's possible. Don't like the operating system figure out how to change it.

But don't just sit back and complain, that's easy.

I want one just so I can watch my 4 year old use it. The other she got a hold of my touch and was tapping away at it, found some app that simulates a brook, so when you touch it it ripples. So she decides to try and blow on it and see if it did anything. I thought that was amazing.

For me I will happily play in Apples garden, pay the fees live with the limitations, because it not only just works it works well.

If something better comes along I will change.

I think this would be a useful tool to examine climate data.

It seems of late everyone is trying to improve on something that is obviously working. ie. Craigslist

Love it or hate it, it's working for them.

Why not examine why it is working so well and take some lessons, and build better products?

When you wanted customer input, what was the most effective way of getting it?