stevefarnworth

Yeah, but that’s not the quote, is it? :)

Occupy… Android?

Aren’t most Silicon Valley start-ups incorporated in Delaware though, so as to avoid a stack of taxes and red-tape?

Conversations of this type always intrigue me, I would have assumed most people would try and limit their tax liability as much as they can, this is the same, just with a few zeros on the end. I don’t trust the government to spend my money wisely – they could waste his tax money in a matter of minutes if they made one poor decision.
Apart from that, this guy moved away last year, after some pretty bitter nastiness with his old company, to another high-growth investment spot, and wants to make the most of that.

If I were on track to make a f*cktonne of money off of an IPO I’d be on a jet to Monaco right about now, tax-exile status in hand…

I love Twenty Twelve, it’s fantastic.

I always thought when VIPs’ motorcades were going from place to place they merely halted traffic with outriders rather than fairly covertly changing traffic signals? At least that’s what you see when you’re on a 24 hour rolling news station and they’re inexplicably filming it from a helicopter…

I had to try and work out why you were calling The Italian Job a horrible movie – then I remembered the modern version which I’d somehow managed to wipe clear from my memory.

But when your phone is stolen, you’re truly f**ked.

Seriously though, I understand both sides of the argument, but also don’t dismiss the battery concern (I know there are solutions out there that work around it, but many haven’t addressed this with consumers yet). It’s one of the reasons why I take my phone and iPod with me when I’m travelling longer distances – sure, my phone has an MP3 player, but if that runs out of battery I have neither a phone nor an MP3 player, whereas with two (rather quite tiny) devices, I always have something to fall back on.

On another point, I’m sure mobile payments will have security flaws in them, and some people will be seriously screwed over, just like cards. It’s easy for me to look back at transactions on my credit card – they’re all neatly listed on my online banking account, as they would be for mobile wallet payments, with (I’m guessing) the same fraud prevention unit at the end of the phone.

I don’t know about you, but I’ll continue to carry a wallet around (mainly for things like ID, which I really don’t want to store completely on my phone, RE my initial point) so a tiny piece of plastic really makes sense.

It’s the future, sure, but there’s an awful lot of stuff to sort out before it approaches any level of mainstream penetration.

Credit card companies seem to be operating under the assumption we actually give a flying f**k whose company name is on the card.

I couldn’t care less whether it says “Visa”, “Mastercard” or freaking “Bungle Bank” – my bank gives me a card which gives me access to my account or credit funds and I use that to pay in a shop. I don’t have an allegiance to a certain provider (just look at the sh*ting Olympics, where a certain brand’s cards will be being pushed for use). I hand over a piece of plastic, type in four numbers and get something in return. End of.

If mobile payments are to really take off, a consumer must be able to walk into a store, wave something (be it a phone, smartcard, whatever) over something, have it deduct funds they’ve already allocated easily from somewhere, and walk out with their goods. Asking a user to plan their shopping based on which merchants handle their payment method? Good luck with that.

Surely we have to define Like in the context of the action? Liking someone’s page is a subscribe action, whereas a Like on a status is acknowledgement/support of the sentiment.

My Philips Savvy had voice control.