Apple deserves a 300 million penalty alone for their treatment of AltStore.
Full story: launchedfm.com/episodes/77-A…
I'm still getting only ~ every third notification here on X and I still don't know if these are bugs or a shitty strategy to upsell users to Premium.
"[Taiwan] offers America-like consumerism and opportunity with Netherlands-like safety and tolerance."
noahpinion.blog/p/eleven-day…
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"It would be a crowning achievement of postmodern capitalism if the corporate world, in aggregate, was able to make more money by charging people for not consuming stuff than it does by selling them stuff." bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
"Apple is reliable in that it doesn’t like to be first to a category, yet largely pretends that category did not exist before them."
matthewball.co/all/metaverse…
"that’s how path dependency in tech works. We fluently navigate and interact with extremely rich 3D environments using keyboards that were designed for mechanical typewriters. It’s steampunk made real."
matthewball.co/all/why-vrar-…
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Piracy is always illegal but it is not always immoral.
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"Twitter was the closest we’ve come to bottling oral culture in written form."
eugenewei.com/blog/2023/7/6/…
"this looks more like ‘productivity for CEOs’. You look, you read, you check, you select. You don’t really make/create."
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The wild thing here is that remote work/ 2020 was supposed to turbocharge wage arbitrage and flatten things
I guess it was the magic money printers
Really disappointing that several years after AI has proven useful for general questions Android and iOS still go with Google Assistant and Siri.
Because of this I could buy my first MacBook in 2013. Meaning, it has been the case for a looong time.
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As a Musk biographer, I told you all he was going mad—the cause being a combination of depression, stress, med misuse and illicit use of illegal drugs. His Twitter feed is a testament to this derangement. Someone who cares about him needs to take him off the internet permanently.
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"Apple is uniquely positioned to not do everything itself; instead of seeing developers as the enemy, Apple should deputize them and equip them in a way no one else in technology can." 💯 stratechery.com/2025/apple-a…
"many of us have willingly paid the "Apple tax", the premium price for Apple products justified by superior user experience, design, and ecosystem integration. But if software quality continues to decline, this value proposition becomes increasingly difficult to defend."
My latest blog post went somewhat viral, with around 10k page visits as of now.
I've seen in comments posted on Hacker News, Lobsters and Reddit that many users are experiencing lots of problems.
If you haven't read the post yet, here's the link:
eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-…
"we levered the entire retirement of America to Nvidia’s performance"
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Just a meta comment on the insane amount of data one can gather from various online sources about a person being born after 1985.
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