ProtonMail vs Apple

[Richard Gaskin]

Lagi Pittas wrote:

 > I didn't mean no marketing - it's like the folks that buy books about
 > the law of attraction and sit on their fata arses visualizing a BMW.
 >
 > You can sit in your chair visualizing all you want but the BMW, and
 >  bigger house won't come to you if you don't get off your ass and meet
 > the universe halfway.

Yours and mine is apparently the minority view. ;)


 > What I was saying is that the market on the Iphone is huge and in 1
 > place, and if your program is any good it will make it big if Apple's
 > editors pick it.
 > or you at least try to JV with someone who is already there.
 >
 > But good luck if your program does not have something that
 > differentiates from all the copycat wabnnabies.

I find nearly every conversation with you eventually winds up with you 
and I coming from the same place.

Business planning fundamentals used to be recognized as such, yet too 
often overlooked these days by starry-eyed aspirants hoping that getting 
a record in a database will be their ticket to success.

My only issue here, as with Andre and the EU, isn't that we're expected 
to hang our shingle if we want to be in business.  It's the vision of a 
world where we're prohibited from hanging our shingle in any property we 
may own, required to surrender an entire third of our company to have a 
cramped space in a massive shopping mall owned and controlled by a 
cartel of two of the wealthiest and most powerful companies on earth.

Just when the disintermediation inherent in the promise of the open web 
was beginning to make itself felt to publishers and consumers alike, we 
started seeing service aggregation reserving those benefits.

App store receipts are more than a third of Apple's services revenue.

My favorite period with Apple was when they made their money on their 
own work.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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