The original version did have Woody being stolen by a toy collector and being rescued by the other toys. I don't think many of the specifics beyond that survived the rewrite, but I don't know for sure. There are links elsewhere in this thread to claimed versions of the original story, but I can't vouch for their authenticity. I never saw any of the in-progress story reels.
On a somewhat related note I hope someday they'll take the scene assets they have from the older films, beef up the models or substitute them with newer ones from recent movies and re-render them. The stories are solid and a remaster of older Pixar films would be a hit I think.
While the product might not even be that good, it has clear dominance of the mobile smartphone market in every country other than the US. In the US it's 43.1% market share (which is very strong).
There's no doubt that Google has managed to win this very important market.
The copyright infringement lawsuit isn't what I'm speaking about. They're under investigation for antitrust by a large number of government entities across the globe. Russia just ruled against them. The EU case is proceeding. I believe there are antitrust investigations in India, South Korea, and Brazil. Rumor has it they're back under investigation by the FTC as well, though the FTC tends not to announce such things.
I'll add the point that if all you've ever eaten is the best of the best, you don't really appreciate something as much as if you've experienced the middle or lower ends.
Anecdote: I dry age my own steaks, and I've realized that people don't really appreciate them as much as if they're eaten side by side with a "control" steak that's unaged.
Similarly to your dry aged steak anecdote, I has two bottles of the same brand of port, one aged 10 years and the other 20. The 10 year tasted great to me, but once I had it alongside the 20 year, I realized the 10 year had a somewhat unpleasant aftertaste which I hadn't noticed drinking it on its own.
I remember the first time I wrote an entire controller and everything worked exactly like it did in my head. There was a lot of whooping and dancing to be had.
My diabetic fiance has a similar experience. If she speaks gibberish in the middle of the night, I use it as a good indicator that she has low blood sugar.
I ran into a similar issue with my app Storyweave (www.getstoryweave.com). There seems to be a wall after your friends and family get tapped out.
The advice I've received is that at this point, you need to build some social features into your app that allow users to share the app with other people automatically. This involves:
- Sharing content to other social media platforms (e.g. post this photo on FB or Twitter)
- Inviting friends in the app (e.g. find friends from your Facebook or Twitter followers list, and/or invite your friends using your contacts
- Etc. Etc.
To be honest, it is a plus, but not speaking french is not a definite show-stopper if you're the right person. Send us an email at job [at] stupeflix.com
