2022-11-12
@Sean_McBeth ... Full disclosure: Meta's paying me as a contractor to work on XR Tech, but I haven't done anything with the Quest Pro, and I have a Quest 2 at home for work. My personal opinion is the Quest 2 is ready for gamers and also ideal for developers. The Quest Pro is for AAA developers.
The Verge
Meta Quest Pro review: improved controllers but irredeemably bad software and feels like it was launched without plan or purpose, highlighting VR's drawbacks
which is a 4/10. https://www.theverge.com/... Adi Robertson / @thedextriarchy : The Quest Pro has some interesting ideas, but they're not deployed remotely well enough to be worth ...
2022-08-04
How many people even knew they had a QVC-style livestream for vendors to hawk their wares? https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Meta plans to shut down its Facebook Live Shopping feature on October 1, as the company shifts its focus to Reels on Facebook and Instagram
Facebook is shutting down its live shopping feature on October 1st to shift its focus to Reels, the company announced in a blog post.
2021-05-19
You have to wonder, if Google weren't making such large profits from advertising, if the market would see 3B users of Google's software *without paying them any royalties* as a good thing. Big Tech seems more powered by a hype cycle and monopoly rent-seeking than by innovation. https://twitter.com/...
9to5Google
Google says Android now powers over 3B active devices worldwide, up from 2.5B in 2019 and 2B in 2017
You have to wonder, if Google weren't making such large profits from advertising, if the market would see 3B users of Google's software *without paying them any royalties* as a good thing. Big Tech seems more powered by a hype cycle and monopoly rent-seeking than by innovation. https://twitter.com/...
Macworld
Android 12 offers new privacy protections including a Privacy Dashboard, mic and camera access toggles in Quick Settings, but stops short of Apple's ATT
On Tuesday, Google unveiled the highlights of Android 12, which will land on the Pixel and other Android phones this fall.
2020-11-19
I have some sympathy for Apple on this one only because I once suffered with a Nexus 5 phone that started to die at 15% or 20% battery life sometimes (I was playing a lot of Pokémon Go), because the battery was getting old and Android *wasn't* throttling the CPU. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Apple agrees to pay $113M to settle an investigation into iPhone throttling brought by 34 states and District of Columbia
Tony Romm / Washington Post :
2020-10-04
Rivals are yet to make any single watch nearly as popular. Nobody really got everyone on the same page to compete against Apple like Android had done previously with smartphones & tablets, or Microsoft with Windows on PCs. https://twitter.com/...
Above Avalon
As the installed base of Apple Watch approaches 100M, with an estimated 35% of US iPhone users wearing one, rivals are yet to make a credible competing device
In a few months, the number of people wearing an Apple Watch will surpass 100 million. While the tech press spent years infatuated …
2019-12-01
I have a theory about Intel, that AMD forces them to compete, and they can just lower their profit margins whenever AMD advances on them like they're doing now, until Intel regains their tech lead (based on spending the most money on chip fabs). Maybe this is oversimplification? https://twitter.com/...
Engadget
With chips like Threadripper 3960X and 3970X, AMD is now comfortably beating Intel in the high-end desktop/workstation CPU market, and is getting further ahead
When AMD launched its third-generation Zen 2 Ryzen processors earlier this year, Intel had to be sweating.
2019-11-30
I have a theory about Intel, that AMD forces them to compete, and they can just lower their profit margins whenever AMD advances on them like they're doing now, until Intel regains their tech lead (based on spending the most money on chip fabs). Maybe this is oversimplification? https://twitter.com/...
Engadget
With chips like Threadripper 3960X and 3970X, AMD is now comfortably beating Intel in the high-end desktop/workstation CPU market, and is getting further ahead
When AMD launched its third-generation Zen 2 Ryzen processors earlier this year, Intel had to be sweating.