Agree that our Amazon overlords have what it takes to challenge Apple in the post-PC era. Bezos has always taken price-competition to the bleeding edge of what can be accomplished. He's willing to lose money on a product to build marketshare, which is what it will take to compete with Apple.
Seems like a spam-banker blacklist could make a real dent if there are truly only three major players. The existence of only three major players suggests that there aren't a lot of banks lining up for this business ...
I think zed had a reasonable complaint. was he a jerk about it? maybe, but it's a customer's prerogative to complain about a bad experience. github's prompt response to zed has made me a happier (paying) customer. way to go!
YEP! Props to Zed. After calling a bunch of people homophobes and writing some code to engage in an asshole war within the confines of GitHub, he got a simple feature implemented that would have probably been fast tracked with a reasonable email.
Of course a big question is how many companies your market can support. If it =1, you and that competitor ate existntial threats to ach other. If it's > 1 then you just need to win the segmenting game.
