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I'm unsurprised people are unwilling to pay for this service: InboxCleaner provides very little added value on top of a service which is free.

Further: it's trivial for a competitor to undercut your app with a free alternative. I suggest you give this away for free to (a) build goodwill and (b) attract people to your other products.

Another thought: you mess with your pricing an awful lot. If I was your customer, and recommending your product to my friends, I'd be pretty pissed to find out the price has changed and made me a liar.

I'm not defending Google, I'm just pointing out that, unlike Facebook, their founders haven't declared the "Age of Privacy" as over.

FWIW: I dislike Facebook but I use it anyway because that's where everyone I know seems to be. If I could substitute it for another service that lets me more tightly control who sees what, then great.

Are suggesting that the personal information you upload to Facebook isn't available to random strangers at that particular corporation?

At least Google has aspirations of not being evil. Mark Zuckerberg only seems to aspire to eliminating privacy altogether.

> on a unix server, you have to be root to read everyone's data.

> on an os x laptop, you can be the logged-in user and read everyone's data

Shenanigans. Unless you have the password of the logged in user, you can't read stuff belonging to other users. Further, if the user in question does not have an Admin account, you're shit out of luck even if you do know their password.

Commodore USA have been promising this stuff for ages and nothing has materialised. It looks like vapourware to me.

I think Google went about this ass-backward.

I can seldom judge the usefulness of a site just based on a list of returned results -- however -- I can often filter out junk (anything from experts-exchange for example). So it seems to me a -1 button would have been better. Not to mention less creepy than tracking sites I like based on my interaction with a search engine.

To sum up a needlessly long piece: manufactured candy became an institution in the 1970s amid fears of homemade sweets being unsafe.

In Romania we have a night for carolers in early December. It's a similar idea to trick-or-trearing on Halloween. I'm not sure what it's like now, but nuts, fruit and coins were still common when I was growing up there in the late 80s.

I don't see the point. If you want a "receipt", read a Budget overview article.

Why do I feel like my WP blog is suddenly contaminated?

So it's not enough that I spend hours working and tailoring my CV and cover letter for every job application and hours more writing answers to selection critera.

Now you want me to record and produce a video selling myself? Hah! Good luck with that.

I've written some software which I occasionally receive emails about. I'll say this: if you ask an intelligent question, I will very likely help you. However, if you follow that up by peppering me with further questions or come across as demanding/pushy, I'm very likely to ignore you.

This is also generally true for open source projects and I'm not surprised the same applies for Apple.

OP: you screwed up. you have noone to blame but yourself.

For some weeks after I stopped drinking coffe each time I had a cup of, say, barley coffee (which is caffeine free) I would get a buzz. It's an interesting experiment that demonstrated, to me, the strength of the placebo effect.

On the east coast it tends to be true. As others have mentioned it might not hold on the west coast. I just wanted to give a counterexample that shows how shallow the OP's argument is. The reality is that there are many factors which make certain parts of a city more desirable to live in than another. In Australia proximity to the beach is strongly correlated with desirability. In other places the reasons will differ. Whatever the reason, I don't believe for a second this oversimplified fairy tale about the prevailing wind.

In Australia, where the prevailing winds are also westerlies, the opposite is true. i.e. the east of most cities is more prestigious than the west.