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Reading another long essay that argues crypto isn’t useful for anything much. This is true (though the usual suspects won’t agree), but really isn’t the same as arguing that it

‘Apple ads don’t track you’ - that’s a very black-and-white statement. How is Apple defining that? 1/https://twitter.com/gregjoz/status/1387127934633218049 This is Apple’s explanation. It seems to me that they define ‘tracking

Apple TV strategy realisations (and failure): you can’t do an iTunes and become the unified storefront and aggregator. Without that, you also can’t add enough Apple-specific UX to a TV

It’s depressing to see a rather good magazine trotting out every lazy and factually incorrect VC trope in the book. Theranos didn’t even raise from VC - that’s a straight

A common spread I see in anti-trust discussion of tech (particular from outside tech) is the presumption that competition to Google look like Google, &competition to Facebook will look like

Every time there’s another big new story about harmful content on a social platform and another flurry of questioning why that platform didn’t find it and stop it, I think

There are lots of things you can say about this, but the core, I think, is that we really don't know what we think about it. https://m.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112270823363411 We spent hundreds

The mistake that the most strident Facebook critics make is imagining that removing bad things is easy, and down to decisions that aren't taken or buttons that aren't pressed. Wrong.

“we are left with a choice of either removing news entirely or accepting a system that lets publishers charge us for as much content as they want at a price

Apples sandboxing policies, combined with the fact that 80%+ of American teenagers are using iPhones, mean that Apple is effectively America’s privacy regulator by default. Apple is the reason TikTok

Most people (and certainly most iPhone developers) understand that the phone was a generational change in computing. But we tend to focus on the multitouch UI, where actually there were

Having written my 'VR isn't working outside' post, wondering if I should do 'bitcoin is not a consumer technology' next. FB has rebranded Libra 'Novi'. It looks like a good