You guys have absolutely no idea how the modern software development world works. I am a program manager for a tech company and most of our hires are remotely located. It's not as easy as you would think to find quality programmers locally and expensive to relocate them, and its so common now a days to have remote workers its a no brainer.
This has nothing to due with IP's, as the process for remote hiring requires thoroughly reviewing the applicant's past work history, references, direct contact with past employers, reviewing contract data like monetary sizes and lengths, programming languages, frameworks and multiple video interviews. It also requires usually direct communication via skype at all times during the work hour and a screen monitoring software/time logging that allows you to see at all times past and present what the contractor works on.
On top of that, a stack of legal documents ranging from Non-Disclosures, Source code ownership rights, Citizenship Forms and a bunch of other legal binding contracts. There are specific clauses for breach of contract from code leaks to browsing the internet in work hours for personal use. I could go all day with the protections, including payment protection using escrow.
Now, lets go onto this super secret intellectual code that I keep hearing about. Creating software to monitor the chip in the way Evolv does is peanuts, and it will take china no longer than a month to reproduce. They likely have been working on it anyway, and come chinese
devices already have software to support their mods. They can also get a bunch of info from reverse engineering and disassembly anyway, but this code is simple so I doubt they would need it. The programmer got mad because John wouldn't even entertain the idea of cross platform applications, ignoring his post completely until he demanded an answer. He didn't handle it in the best manner, but he forced the issue and im glad he did, now we know they don't care to invest in it.
If Evolv was smart, they would just open source the code. Its not like its not going to be cloned any day now and they're only hurting there consumers because there not willing to make versions for other operating systems. And the 90% windows argument doesn't apply anymore. If you look at the numbers excluding business, education and other non-consumer markets, the sales of windows vs mac daily support developing for both because macs are growing rapidly in the consumer households.
The stats below show the share of OS's shipped by year, with apple and microsoft nearly tieing. Considering most households cycle computers every 4-6 years, that would mean your looking at a much higher adaptation rate for apple OS's. Apple’s Mac marketshare hit record highs during the third calendar quarter of 2014, according to research firm IDC. Official numbers from the firm’s
quarterly PC trackershow that Apple’s Q3 shipments topped 2.34 million Macs moved during the quarter in the U.S., giving it 13.4 percent market share and putting it in third place behind HP and Dell. That’s the best market share Apple has every achieved in the PC market, which for IDC’s purposes, doesn’t even include tablets like the iPad.
Worldwide Device Shipments by Operating System
Source Year Android iOS/OS X Windows Others
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[2] 2014 48.61% 11.04% 14.0% 26.34%
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[3] 2013 38.51% 10.12% 13.98% 37.41%
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[4] 2012 22.8% 9.6% 15.62% 51.98%
