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Nicholas De Leon

@nicholasadeleon
18 posts
2026-02-04
“We likely have not hit peak GenAI apps, but this is an early inflection point where there may be a gap between early adopters and everyone else.” https://www.bigtechnology.com/ ...
2026-02-04 View on X
Big Technology

Apptopia: ChatGPT's US market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% from January 2025 to January 2026; Gemini rose from 14.7% to 25.1% and Grok rose from 1.6% to 15.2%

• Mobile Market Share: ChatGPT fell from 69.1% to 45.3%, while Gemini rose to 25.1% and Grok to 15.2%.  —  • Web Traffic: ChatGPT visits grew 50% (to 5.7 billion), compared to Gemi...

“We likely have not hit peak GenAI apps, but this is an early inflection point where there may be a gap between early adopters and everyone else.” https://www.bigtechnology.com/ ...
2026-02-04 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Recon Analytics: Copilot's US market share as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026; Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7%

Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running Into Big Problems After leaning on its partnership with OpenAI, Microsoft is playing catch-up in the chatbot race.

2024-02-24
Great comments here. I ditched Spotify about a year ago for two reasons: the lack of lossless and the spammy (imo) mobile app. I was tired of being shown a pop up for some dumb celebrity podcast every time I opened the app. No thank you! https://www.theverge.com/...
2024-02-24 View on X
The Verge

Three years after Spotify's original announcement that it would launch a higher-quality audio subscription, the company has yet to roll out the feature

I was really hoping I wouldn't have to do this again.  Last year, it seemed like there was no reason to believe Spotify would ever roll … Threads: @joe_rosenthal , @fabiobracht , a...

2023-12-30
@antoniogm Honestly WhatsApp is so much better I don't understand why more folks in the US don't use it.
2023-12-30 View on X
Daring Fireball

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 Appl...

2023-10-03
Is there anyone who thinks Google search results have gotten better in the past 5, 10 years? “Nadella said Microsoft is trapped in a ‘vicious cycle’ where Google uses its roughly 90% market share to continually improve its search results.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-10-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

US v. Google: Satya Nadella says Google cemented its search dominance via default search deals with Apple and he may have been overenthusiastic about ChatGPT

and Apple could fix it New York Times : Microsoft C.E.O. Testifies That Google's Power in Search Is Ubiquitous Bloomberg : Microsoft CEO Says Google Search Dominance to Give It AI ...

2023-07-15
I gave Thre4ds a shot but it was literally just brands patting each other on the back. Why would anyone read that? At least Mastodon has the indie app/computer nerd crowd (ahem).
2023-07-15 View on X
CNBC

Sensor Tower: from July 8 to July 11 and 12, Threads DAUs fell ~20% and time spent fell 50% to 10 minutes; Similarweb: Android DAUs fell 25%+ from July 7 to 10

2023-06-19
“We're not going to subsidize other people's businesses for free,” said the CEO of a message board whose entire business model is predicated on people contributing content, moderating, etc. for freeeee. https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-06-19 View on X
Wired

Reddit's management risks putting the company in a death spiral as users revolt, dedicated moderators quit, and its vibrant discussions move to other platforms

2023-06-18
“We're not going to subsidize other people's businesses for free,” said the CEO of a message board whose entire business model is predicated on people contributing content, moderating, etc. for freeeee. https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-06-18 View on X
Wired

Reddit's management risks putting the service in a death spiral as users revolt, dedicated moderators quit, and its vibrant content moves to other platforms

When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit's community won't ever be the same.  —  It's pretty easy to piss people off on Reddit.

2023-06-17
I have been online, more or less nonstop, since 1996, and this is the dumbest company I have ever seen. It's so awesome, I'm so jazzed right now. “We're communicating expectations.” Please spare me your HR drivel, it's people posting cat pics lmao. https://www.theverge.com/... [image]
2023-06-17 View on X
The Verge

Reddit messages some moderators of the communities participating in the API pricing change protest, looking for defectors “willing to work towards reopening”

I have been online, more or less nonstop, since 1996, and this is the dumbest company I have ever seen. It's so awesome, I'm so jazzed right now. “We're communicating expectations.” Please spare me your HR drivel, it's people posting cat pics lmao. https://www.theverge.com/... [image]
2023-06-17 View on X
NBC News

Steve Huffman praises Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter and says he saw Musk's handling of Twitter as an example for Reddit to follow

Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted “a handful of times.”

2023-05-16
Anyone remember using the old NetZero ISP from the late 90s, early 2000s? It was free in exchange with placing a permanent banner ad at the bottom of your screen. We used it when I was a kid. https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
2023-05-16 View on X
Fast Company

Pluto TV co-founder Ilya Pozin's Telly opens a waitlist to give away 500K 55-inch 4K HDR TVs, which have a second screen for constantly showing ads, in 2023

but there's a massive catch Cesar Cadenas / TechRadar : This free TV has a second screen for extra ads - and it could be a privacy nightmare Axios : Axios Pro: Media Deals Kyle Fun...

2023-03-15
“Spotify employees have access to HiFi. But since it was originally intended to cost more than the standard plan (and thus boost Spotify's average revenue per user), the launch was spoiled by Apple bundling lossless into Apple Music for free.” https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-03-15 View on X
The Verge

Sources: Spotify HiFi as a premium tier was ready to launch over a year ago, but Apple's decision to offer lossless audio at no extra charge spoiled its plans

Even though Spotify HiFi still hasn't launched after being announced more than two years ago, some kind of lossless experience …

2023-02-15
Great to hear Mozilla's Mitchell Baker on Decoder today. I am not joking when I say I spent my first college dorm party in 2004 evangelizing Firefox and open source software to anyone who would listen. I literally did that lol. @reckless @mozilla https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-02-15 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker on the company's history, battling Microsoft, working with rivals, generative AI, WebKit, iOS, Chrome, Mastodon, and more

and cooperating — with Google, Apple, and the rest of Big Tech https://www.theverge.com/... @alexanderchopan : “the closed nature of mobile phones is absolutely worth looking at an...

2022-10-04
“Exemptions will apply for devices that are too small to offer a USB-C port, such as smart watches, health trackers, and some sports equipment, but the legislation is expected to be expanded to other devices over time.” https://www.macrumors.com/...
2022-10-04 View on X
MacRumors

European Parliament votes 602 to 13 to enforce USB-C as the charging port for most devices by the end of 2024 and laptops by 2026; some small devices are exempt

The European Parliament today voted overwhelmingly in favor of enforcing USB-C as a common charging port across a wide range …

2022-06-01
“Virtually every crypto project's Discord server is filled with fake accounts sending private messages with phishing links to everyone in the server.” https://www.vice.com/...
2022-06-01 View on X
VICE

A look at Discord's outsized role in crypto and Web3 communities, as the platform struggles with rampant spam, phishing attacks, scammers, and malware

Rampant spam, phishing attacks, scammers, and malware—Discord has a lot of challenges securing crypto projects.  —  Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

2022-02-18
“The NCET will identify, investigate, support and pursue the department's cases involving the criminal use of digital assets... that are enabling the misuse of cryptocurrency and related technologies to commit or facilitate criminal activity.” https://www.justice.gov/...
2022-02-18 View on X
Bloomberg

DOJ establishes the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to investigate illegal schemes run by criminals and countries like North Korea and Iran

Friday, February 18, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: ISG Jamie Lowe / Protos : Attorney who kept Ross Ulbricht in prison to lead DoJ crypto task force Catalin Cimpanu / The Reco...

2020-11-03
@Phunkmachine @DoomAssistMe Just like you guys said. “Mr. Katzenberg and Ms. Whitman misjudged which programming and technology features would appeal to young consumers, the people said.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-11-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Quibi mulled options like a freemium model and had 450K subs paying $4.99/mo. when it closed, far less than the 7.4M it targeted for its first year

on content, technology, and financial planning. In the end, their intuition was wrong. And the collapse was swift. Fantastic reconstruction by @BenMullin @Lilliannnn https://www.ws...

2019-10-23
On what planet am I going to believe Comcast over Mozilla? https://www.vice.com/...
2019-10-23 View on X
VICE

Leaked presentation shows Comcast is lobbying US lawmakers against Google and Mozilla's plan to encrypt DNS data, making it harder for ISPs to track users

Motherboard has obtained a leaked presentation internet service providers are using to try and lobby lawmakers against a form of encrypted browsing data.