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Tom Coates

@tomcoates
190 posts
2025-09-23
This couldn't really be more accurate.  [embedded post]
2025-09-23 View on X
Wired

Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots

it's that Silicon Valley's view of freedom was always aligned with libertarianism, not progressivism. Levy suggests that Trump's “values violently clashed with the egalitarian impu...

2025-07-09
I wonder what the final straw was?  The collapsing business?  The revulsion of all her peers?  The installation of a lunatic president?  The tariffs?  The troops on the street?  Elon's Hitler salute?  The anti-Semitic AI?  Reinstalling actual neo-Nazis?  Elon's Ketamine use? …
2025-07-09 View on X
Axios

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …

2025-05-24
Trump proposing hundreds of percent tariffs on Apple if they don't move their production to the US, where the costs of production would double anyway.  50% tariffs on the EU, who will simply return in kind with tariffs on services where the US has a budget surplus. apnews.com/article/trum...
2025-05-24 View on X
Bloomberg

President Trump says that the tariffs he has threatened against Apple would also be aimed at “Samsung and anybody that makes that product”

“It would be more,” Trump said when asked at the White House whether his tariff threat would only apply to Apple.

I 100% agree with the general sentiment that Apple should be aggressive to Trump in return.  Sue them for targeting them.  Make it very clear if they put tariffs on the iPhone then they'll advertise the main price and the extra tariff cost.  Threaten to keep the iPhone out of the US.
2025-05-24 View on X
CNBC

Trump says a 25%+ tariff “must be paid by Apple” on iPhones not made in the US, and he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US

will other tech companies face the heat? Here's what the US President said The Economic Times : Trump threatens 25% tariff on iPhones not made in US, targets India production Scott...

I 100% agree with the general sentiment that Apple should be aggressive to Trump in return.  Sue them for targeting them.  Make it very clear if they put tariffs on the iPhone then they'll advertise the main price and the extra tariff cost.  Threaten to keep the iPhone out of the US.
2025-05-24 View on X
Bloomberg

President Trump says that the tariffs he has threatened against Apple would also be aimed at “Samsung and anybody that makes that product”

“It would be more,” Trump said when asked at the White House whether his tariff threat would only apply to Apple.

Trump proposing hundreds of percent tariffs on Apple if they don't move their production to the US, where the costs of production would double anyway.  50% tariffs on the EU, who will simply return in kind with tariffs on services where the US has a budget surplus. apnews.com/article/trum...
2025-05-24 View on X
CNBC

Trump says a 25%+ tariff “must be paid by Apple” on iPhones not made in the US, and he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US

will other tech companies face the heat? Here's what the US President said The Economic Times : Trump threatens 25% tariff on iPhones not made in US, targets India production Scott...

2025-04-14
Fuck's sake this is chaos.  Two weeks ago the tech companies were doing fine with importing things from China.  A week ago they were thrown into absolute chaos.  Yesterday they were told they weren't going to be thrown into chaos.  Today they're back in the crap again. abcnews.go.com/Politics/com...
2025-04-14 View on X
Financial Times

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in “a month or two”

www.ft.com/content/9038... @drdoofenschmirtz : Only 45 more months of this uncertainty, assuming we have elections in 2026 &.  2028.  —  Good job Wall Street!!!  You got your guy G...

Fuck's sake this is chaos.  Two weeks ago the tech companies were doing fine with importing things from China.  A week ago they were thrown into absolute chaos.  Yesterday they were told they weren't going to be thrown into chaos.  Today they're back in the crap again. abcnews.go.com/Politics/com...
2025-04-14 View on X
Nikkei Asia

Sources: Apple asked suppliers in India, Vietnam, and Thailand to ramp up production earlier in 2025; Indian factory utilization rates are already at the limit

TAIPEI — Apple is ramping up production of key products in India and Vietnam to take advantage of a 90-day grace period on U.S. tariffs …

2025-03-02
I know a bunch of past and present 18F employees.  Absolutely clueless and awful move, but then which of their moves aren't. [embedded post]
2025-03-02 View on X
Nextgov/FCW

The US GSA eliminates 18F, a government tech consultancy that helps other agencies with their tech, including the IRS' Direct File, impacting about 90 employees

The General Services Administration deleted 18F, a government tech consultancy that helps other agencies with their technology, early Saturday morning.

2025-02-11
Got there in the end, Shopify.  [embedded post]
2025-02-11 View on X
NBC News

Shopify shutters Ye's store, which began selling swastika shirts before a Super Bowl ad boosted traffic to the site, saying it violated Shopify's ToS

Shopify said in a statement: “This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify.”

Like if you can't do the absolute basics to say that LGBTQA+ people are welcome in your companies, if you remove fucking *pride* and *black history month* from your holiday calendars... I mean, fuck you people.  —  www.theverge.com/news/608858/ ...
2025-02-11 View on X
The Verge

Google says it removed Calendar's Pride Month, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and more events in 2024 for not being “scalable or sustainable”

Google says it switched to only showing default entries for public holidays and national observances last year.

2025-01-07
Fuck's sake.
2025-01-07 View on X
NBC News

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …

2025-01-03
Oh sure, this seems fine. You have to feel for Nick Clegg though, right? Right? Right?! Anyone?
2025-01-03 View on X
Semafor

Meta appoints Joel Kaplan as Chief Global Affairs Officer, replacing Nick Clegg, who is leaving the company; Kaplan is Meta's most prominent Republican

www.semafor.com/article/01/0...  [embedded post] Sam Jeffers / @worklesshard : Seems a bit backward for Clegg to leave now.  Nothing will happen in the US for years, while EU DSA e...

Oh sure, this seems fine. You have to feel for Nick Clegg though, right? Right? Right?! Anyone?
2025-01-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta required a public statesman like Nick Clegg after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but now turns to the in-house Republican Joel Kaplan to appease Trump

The former UK politician was a public statesman when Meta required one.  A different approach will be called for under Trump.

2024-10-23
Very strange and sad to see Foursquare's city guide finally going away, even if sometimes I feel like the only person still using it. https://foursquare.com/...
2024-10-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Foursquare plans to sunset its City Guide app on December 15, 2024 to focus on check-in app Swarm, reversing a 2014 decision to split its services into two apps

“I would be lying if I didn't admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,” writes Foursquare …

2024-10-19
This definition alone should scare the ever-living shit out of all of us.
2024-10-19 View on X
TechCrunch

Report: OpenAI sees a clause in its Microsoft contract, which cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, as a path to a better contract

The New York Times on Thursday published a look at the “fraying” relationship between OpenAI and its investor, partner, and …

2024-09-10
I'm assuming that Apple's data on ovulation is safely protected so that anti-abortion states can't subpoena it? #AppleEvent
2024-09-10 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple debuts Apple Watch Series 10, with a thinner design, a bigger screen, smaller bezels, a Jet Black finish, faster charging, more, coming Sept. 20 for $399+

similar to the Series 9 — but they are in other regions.  Apple, however, is not advertising the O2 sensor on any page in any region. … Victoria Song / @vicmsong : Fast charging de...

2024-09-07
Look, I know I live in a liberal bubble, and I know a bunch of peop love love Elon, but ... seriously? I would have thought this would be self-evidently a bad campaigning idea. I mean, how easy is it to find examples of *insane* and awful things that Musk has said in public?!
2024-09-07 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Donald Trump says Elon Musk has agreed to lead a government efficiency commission, which would let Musk influence federal agencies that regulate his companies

https://apnews.com/... Bluesky: @mack70d.bsky.social : The most chilling and foreboding sentence you will read today. Pete Miles / @petermiles.bsky.social : What could possibly go ...

2024-08-06
The Google antitrust case is interesting. Presumably it would mean they couldn't pay other services for use their search engine. Which would obviously affect Mozilla and Apple a lot - Mozilla most, as that's most of their income gone.
2024-08-06 View on X
Bloomberg

US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google illegally monopolized the search market, including through deals to be the default option on phones and browsers

Google's payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violates US antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday …

Wondering if the browser manufacturers could turn it the other way around - ie. Treat search like an App Store, where the search providers pay to be an option on the search engine, and then pay per million search requests they receive. User is then given choice of which to use.
2024-08-06 View on X
Bloomberg

US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google illegally monopolized the search market, including through deals to be the default option on phones and browsers

Google's payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violates US antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday …