2024-11-19
Meta's user-hostile approach to outbound links worked for them with Instagram but importing it to Threads has been a huge mistake. Sharing is central to being human and, for text-first social networks, sharing links is a core part of the experience. …
Blood in the Machine
Bluesky is booming partly because it doesn't have bad ad tech, AI slop, throttled links, and largely hostile user experiences, unlike some of its big rivals
No bad adtech, no AI, no throttling links. Bluesky is a booming because it's everything big tech is not — Greetings all —
2023-06-08
What will Apple Vision Pro actually be used for? Sports. “Baseball and basketball scenes were shot by Apple using custom camera rigs... It looks real. It was incredible. I would genuinely consider buying a Vision Pro just for sporting events like this.” https://daringfireball.net/...
Daring Fireball
Apple Vision Pro impressions after 30 minutes of use: extraordinary tech, heavier than expected, visionOS is a breakthrough, incredible for sports, and more
I got to spend about 30 minutes Monday afternoon using a Vision Pro and VisionOS at Apple Park, in a temporary “field house” …
2023-01-26
Hitting Musk where it hurts: “Musk's tragic flaw is his inability to accept that he's extremely, painfully unfunny. At best, his brand of humor resembles dad jokes from the dad who thinks he can hang...” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
How Elon Musk's Twitter usage and stewardship is making him toxic for many Tesla customers and shareholders at a time when the company badly needs new business
Hitting Musk where it hurts: “Musk's tragic flaw is his inability to accept that he's extremely, painfully unfunny. At best, his brand of humor resembles dad jokes from the dad who thinks he can hang...” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: Elon Musk's team has been exploring selling up to $3B in potential new Twitter shares to help repay some of the $13B in debt tacked on for the buyout
Wall Street Journal :
2022-12-03
On stage the screen showed “Fortune magazine with Bankman-Fried on its cover along with the headline “The Next Warren Buffett?” The Emcee predicted that Bankman-Fried's “trading habit” would soon involve swapping “cigarettes for toilet paper in prison.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Inside the Crypties, an awards ceremony calling itself the Oscars for Web 3.0, with awards for game of the year, investor of the year, social impact, and more
Jacob Bernstein / New York Times :
2022-05-02
Excerpt from new book on Apple argues “technocrats” won and company “lost its soul.” A good example of myth trumping evidence. Ive's obsession with thin products and clean lines made iPhones and Macs worse in recent years and both are better since he left. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
A look at Jony Ive's evolving responsibilities and frustrations at Apple that eventually led to his June 2019 resignation, adapted from the book “After Steve”
AFTER STEVE: HOW APPLE BECAME A TRILLION-DOLLAR COMPANY AND LOST ITS SOUL Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : How Apple's ‘Corporate Bloat’ Forced Jony Ive to Depart, Details Upc...
@Ravi_711 Agree completely. I never understood their $10,000 luxe Apple Watch for a device that would be obsolete in months. Clearly the rationale was fashion marketing but, in retrospect, likely muddied public's understanding of what watch is actually good for, eg exercise tracking.
New York Times
A look at Jony Ive's evolving responsibilities and frustrations at Apple that eventually led to his June 2019 resignation, adapted from the book “After Steve”
AFTER STEVE: HOW APPLE BECAME A TRILLION-DOLLAR COMPANY AND LOST ITS SOUL Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : How Apple's ‘Corporate Bloat’ Forced Jony Ive to Depart, Details Upc...
2021-07-26
Facebook-owned WhatsApp sued NSO for targeting their users. In court, NSO countered, “In 2017, Facebook executives reached to NSO to ask for help in tracking the habits of iPhone users, including which apps they used and how much time they spent on them.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
The Guardian