Reality intersecting business.

Smart move by Apple - patent trolls threaten their entire ecosystem.

A new morning brings new App Store Review Guidelines.

Tides aren’t this regular.

shortlogic:

Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they’re currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they’ll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account.

At the moment, it’s costing them $1.43 to…

Good analysis on the Groupon IPO.

(Source: shortlogic)

Good summary, but also worth noting was his interest in WiFi connected, app-aware TVs and how they would change what we currently understand as “networks.” Hastings was very bullish on the idea that individual shows could and would become apps and be directly available to consumers, a concept that we’ve been very interested in for a few years now.

This is the big reason why we generally advise paid apps to just focus on iOS for the moment - Paid apps don’t make money on Android.

Now we’re talking.

Your Friday reading.

Smartphones are about to go through a massive change as we move past the concept of “cell phones” and into “portable information devices.” We’re slowly starting to drop the legacy aspects of old rotary phones in favor of prioritizing the more modern aspects of overall communication that mobile devices enable.

Good advice overall. 

spytap:

Speaking of expired season, I’ve heard some networks talk about extending the life of shows they were going to cancel if you’re going to pay them to keep going. Does that make sense?

Yes. For example, “Friday Night Lights” wasn’t going to get continued two seasons ago on NBC, and DirecTV did a deal to extend that show. So we can see ourselves doing something like that–extending a season of something that was doing well on Netflix.

Called it.

This comes very close to a “worst-case scenario” for app devs, and for Apple, who relies on their ability to sustain themselves. The iOS App Store was built on the work and efforts of thousands of small developers and cannot sustain itself solely on the larger players. Apple knows this, and I expect them to take some action once they’ve had the chance to take a legal look into the claims.