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Rob Leathern

@jacaranda7
7 posts
2025-03-28
So, re: Applovin short report: 1.  People at Meta and Google are now aware of some of these practices**.  I don't know about Apple.  2. Fair to say that big tech companies somewhat discount short seller research, but they do NOT ignore it. …
2025-03-28 View on X
Bloomberg

AppLovin hires a law firm to investigate short sellers' allegations that the mobile ad company's ad performance numbers are fraudulent

It followed a Muddy Waters report released on Thursday that alleged that AppLovin was misappropriating data and violating some of its platform partners' terms of service …

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2025-01-13
As a long time Sonos Customer I was disappointed back in 2020 when they decided not to support their older products, but they partially backed down from that poor decision.  And after the latest software controversy their CEO is out.
2025-01-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is leaving following a botched app revamp that upset customers and stymied growth; Sonos names board member Tom Conrad as interim CEO

- 'We've let far too many‬‭ people down,' company tells staffers  — Former Snap and Pandora executive Tom Conrad named interim CEO

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2024-12-19
Most folks don't appreciate this about the EU Digital Markets Act, which is that it requires interoperability to an extent we've never ever seen before.  I expect a lot of big fights about this in 2025 between the tech giants.  🍿
2024-12-19 View on X
Reuters

Apple says Meta has made 15 interoperability requests under the EU's DMA, more than any other company, and that these could affect users' privacy and security

Apple (AAPL.O) on Wednesday hit out at Meta Platforms (META.O), saying its numerous requests to access the iPhone maker's software tools …

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2024-03-26
1) some of the DMA is good (25%?)  2) a lot of it is silly (eg forcing companies to provide products for free?)  3) I find it sad that these tech companies are probably spending a lot of their resources on some version of “compliance” for a subset of users vs improving their products for everyone globally; BUT ALSO 4) I'm not sure how much they'd do the good things without a forcing function thanks to mostly absent or ineffectual US regulation
2024-03-26 View on X
Financial Times

The EU opens formal DMA probes into Apple and Google over letting developers “steer” users from their app stores, and Meta over its “pay or consent” model

Apple fans: “The EU must approve of Apple's plans, otherwise Apple wouldn't have announced them”  —  The EU: “Hang on a minute...” https://www.theverge.com/... Jan Penfrat / @ilumi...

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2024-02-28
It's easy to stop displaying 1st party info if a user toggles an opt-out; much harder will be figuring out how to remove that data later after it's been sold off to train some other company's AI system.  “Automattic did not respond to a question from 404 Media about whether it could guarantee that people who opt out will have their data deleted retroactively.” …
2024-02-28 View on X
404 Media

Docs: Tumblr staff compiled users' data in preparation for deals where parent company Automattic would sell the data to OpenAI and Midjourney to train AI tools

Tumblr and WordPress.com are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge …

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2024-02-24
The correct take by @dwillner.  Google execs are rushing to market, teams skipping steps/lacking support in 🔑 areas: “..much more nuance will be needed to both accurately depict history (with all of its warts) and to accurately depict the present (in which all CEOs are not white men and all airline stewards are not Asian women),” he told me. …
2024-02-24 View on X
9to5Google

Google says poor image tuning and Gemini becoming more cautious than intended made the model “overcompensate in some cases, and be over-conservative in others”

Google announced yesterday that it disabled image generation of people in Gemini following criticism about its historical accuracy.

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2024-01-03
Yes.  Also the same thing re: zone of “plausible deniability” for any ads businesses, not just for apps but a whole host of products and services that many interests argue shouldn't be promoted to kids (eg soda/fast food).  Hence they will not do this willingly - but one could argue they should.
2024-01-03 View on X
404 Media

Pornhub blocks access in two more states, Montana and North Carolina, in protest of the states' age verification laws that went into effect on January 1

The funny thing is, while the NC law is clumsily implemented and of course puts a ridiculous barrier of entry up, the immediate impacts of it might be . . . good?  —  Compliance wi...

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