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Disclaimer: I'm an iOS user so I'm no Android fan boy.

The largest suit that has been brought against them for Android has just been settled: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/google-wins-trial...

While the product might not even be that good, it has clear dominance of the mobile smartphone market in every country other than the US. In the US it's 43.1% market share (which is very strong).

There's no doubt that Google has managed to win this very important market.

I agree with you completely.

I'll add the point that if all you've ever eaten is the best of the best, you don't really appreciate something as much as if you've experienced the middle or lower ends.

Anecdote: I dry age my own steaks, and I've realized that people don't really appreciate them as much as if they're eaten side by side with a "control" steak that's unaged.

YES! It's so important to be able to look under the hood with these things.

When I was working at MoPub, our open source SDK was one of our major selling points.

I ran into a similar issue with my app Storyweave (www.getstoryweave.com). There seems to be a wall after your friends and family get tapped out.

The advice I've received is that at this point, you need to build some social features into your app that allow users to share the app with other people automatically. This involves:

- Sharing content to other social media platforms (e.g. post this photo on FB or Twitter) - Inviting friends in the app (e.g. find friends from your Facebook or Twitter followers list, and/or invite your friends using your contacts - Etc. Etc.

Happy to chat with you about this more.

Very cool. With the same approach were you able to manipulate prices or surge/no surge?

Wouldn't be very useful in real life, but if they have a bug bounty program you could report it.

The former. The article indicates that while costs of office space have increased (doubled in rate really), when compared to the increase in costs from employee salaries, it's minuscule in comparison.

Thus, the vast majority of the increase in costs that it takes to run a startup is in employee salaries, rather than office space.

I feel like Pricenomic's traffic numbers would be skewed. Their articles tend to be about pretty high minded topics.

We always forget that there's a large portion of the internet that still uses Yahoo, AOL, and other platforms that we'd consider old hat.

I feel like this post boils down the hundreds of posts that I've seen on YC into one small digestible reference. It's pretty nice.

If you're really interested in entrepreneurial pursuits, Stanford is the way to go. They've got better infrastructure and guidance around it than anyone else.

Also, Boston is horrible weatherwise. You'll really regret it your first winter out there.