Archive for October, 2011

Apple is Smiling as They Watch Your No-iPhone-5 Temper Tantrum

Very few of Apple’s product introductions are breakthroughs from a pure technology standpoint. Anyone working in Microsoft, Google, Nokia or any one of a dozen other technology companies had seen everything in the first iPhone before Steve unveiled it. What they hadn’t seen before was a user experience that brought it all together in such […]

Stripe’s New Online Payments Service: Where’s the Catch?

When I wrote about recurring payment solutions in March I called Saasy “without doubt the simplest recurring billing payments solution the world has ever seen.” I thought it was expensive though, and it doesn’t have data portability. You can’t move your customers’ credit card data to another provider. You are locked in. Braintree was my […]