My gut told me that Getaround, the peer-to-peer car rental service, should be the Battlefield winner.
It was a crowd favorite and solved the age-old problem of finding temporary access to wheels without paying any up-front fees.
However, it seemed to me that the judges found this a messy proposition with possible regulatory issues, insurance issues, and potential customer satisfaction headaches—’the car I rented smells funny’, etc, etc.Continue reading
Fred Wilson, managing partner of Union Square Ventures (Foursquare), recently called Apple an evil company. The reason? “They believe they know what is best for you and me. And I think that is evil.”
It’s a definition of evil I think most of us would not agree with. On the other side of Wilson’s argument, you’ll find a few light-weight thinkers such as Socrates (see Plato’s Republic). So … doctors are evil because they claim to know what’s best for us. Add to the list accountants, plumbers, carpenters, and architects.
I think Wilson has a different gripe with Apple. Apple has successfully shown that the America consumer has an appetite for quality products, even though they’re based on walled-off hardware and software. While passing Wilson’s test for goodness, Google’s open-source Android platform is not necessarily a path to quality and may actually do some evil.Continue reading
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Twitter Platform and Ecosystem recently. I think it is at an inflection point, much like the desktop software …
