A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks the same way it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands in the AI boom
Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire … X: @elatable . Bluesky: @mranthropology , @turoczy , @metacurity.com , @sauthoff , and ...
Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive
what a shame! I swear, these companies — Meta, Spotify, and Epic come to mind — are the whiniest bastards ever. In a hypothetical situation where Meta made its own phone and Apple wanted to create a...
Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive
There's a lot to catch up on since last I wrote about Beeper. Long story short, they've been playing — and no surprise, losing — the cat-and-mouse game with Apple. Threads: @eshumarneedi , @lscottspe...
Amazon's third-party “seller services”, a large and growing part of the company's revenue that is also profitable, has filled its Marketplace with junk products
its drift from anything resembling shopping or informed consumption — is becoming harder for Amazon's one-click magic trick to hide.” https://nymag.com/... Maya Kosoff / @mekosoff : retail in 2023 inv...
Meta Executive Advisor and former Oculus CTO John Carmack leaves the company after more than eight years, saying Meta is operating at “half the effectiveness”
over *years* of effort — to produce little more than... ...legless 1992 quality avatars... viewed through a size 16 boot strapped to your face... https://twitter.com/... Casilli / @antoniocasilli : Me...
Web3 notes from a sci-fi writer and “enemy” of the tech: it shows new protocols are still possible, but is expensive, undemocratic, and impedes ephemerality
he's an enemy and, full disclosure, so am I. https://society.robinsloan.com/ ... Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera : “The money thing confounds evaluation; it's like trying to look at a star next to the sun. ...
Software has eaten the world, fading into the background like electricity or cars before, and is now secondary to conventional industry differentiation concerns
Benedict Evans : Tweets: @chanezon , @josephflaherty , @eric_seufert , @eric_seufert , @hkanji , @craigmod , @benedictevans , @helgeklein , and @dwellington Tweets: @chanezon : “this year's MBA class...
Kuo: MiniLED displays will be used in the MacBook Air by 2022 and the 2022 iPad Air will feature an OLED display
What we know so far (report) Michael Simon / Macworld : Head into spring with a new M1 MacBook Air and save big Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider : Kuo: Mini LED iPad Pro enters production in April, OLED ...
[Thread] As a promised replacement for Flash, HTML5/JS is still in the stone age as a newbie-friendly animation/graphics-first authoring toolset
Flash had to die. It had too many knocks … Alexandra Ramos / ScreenRant : FarmVille Has Officially Shut Down After 11 Years Caleb Chen / Privacy News Online … : Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: J...
[Thread] As a promised replacement for Flash, HTML5/JS is still in the stone age as a newbie-friendly animation/graphics-first authoring toolset
To this day, I am super mad at all the people who put for the codswallop that HTML5 was this perfect replacement for Flash. It's been 10 years since “Thoughts on Flash” was published and HTML5 STILL d...