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Mobile apps developer. www.coachbase.com
I'm part of the incubation program at Cyberport in Hong Kong. You can check it out here: http://www.cyberport.hk/en/about_cyberport/our_5_centres/ent.... I've been back for 5 months and I love it.
J Plus. Hong Kong. Full time/intern.
Ruby developer and designer.
Mobile apps for sports. Part of Cyberport's incubation program. Check us out http://www.jpluscorp.com.
If interested, email keith [at] jpluscorp.com
Super awesome. Is the green pattern you've used for the buttons available too? Thanks alot!
I built a magento ecommerce site about 1 year ago. Here's a quick summary of my experience:
Pros - Beautiful themes out of the box - Easy to setup initially (i.e. payment plug-ins,etc)
Cons - Extremely slow on a shared host (i.e. netfirms) - If your host is slow, using the admin panel to manage the content is painful
The performance issue killed it for me. Unless you can spend some more money on a good hosting service, I'd stay away from it. Otherwise, it's pretty awesome out of the box.
I've been thinking about this too. I feel awesome that Amazon reached out to me but does that mean it's better than Droid/Berry/Nokia? If I agree to any new opportunity, what if it's the next Microsoft KIN/ZUNE (I doubt it)? Even if Amazon sells a million kindles a month (12 million a year), it would take them a few years to catch up to droid/berry/nokia? It seems like a high risk/high reward situation when I don't even know if the Kindle app store will work out at all. Whereas, the other markets are proven. I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just talking about a different angle of approach.
Thanks for the encouragement. I actually tried to ask them for a discount on a kindle but was rejected. As for being their go-to guy, I'm not sure what I can gain down the road. Maybe another beta license for the "KindlePad"?
Thanks for the information. The sales figure is impressive but it's for a book. I'd expect app sales to be less than a book publisher's because users bought the kindle mainly for the ability to consume content, not apps.