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2025-01-16 22:07:05

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@nprofile…fv4z Have you seen this movie before?

2025-01-16 21:57:09

Lean in and breathe out.
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2024-11-28 21:12:45

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@nprofile…fv4z Nothing ”appeals to everyone,” this is ‘Merica!

2024-11-08 19:29:32

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@npub1j2u…c034 Just as we enter a new phase wherein the new "government will be run as a startup"?

2024-11-08 19:20:35

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@npub1j2u…c034 We could be living perpetually in the future by default, obviously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man

2024-11-08 19:11:56

Good things happen to bad people.
Bad things happen to good people.
Still early days…

2024-10-05 22:10:05

A snapshot of Apple, ever fallen behind in AI 3D vision…
https://venturebeat.com/ai/apple-releases-depth-pro-an-ai-model-that-rewrites-the-rules-of-3d-vision/

2024-10-02 20:06:28

@npub1eee…e209
Re: VPN app side loading
Unfortunately, availability of a VPN app on device is no guarantee that it will work properly or at all. Many countries ban/restrict VPN access nationwide, even in places that have actual Apple retail stores: https://www.cyberghostvpn.com/privacyhub/countries-banning-vpn/

2024-10-01 21:04:26

Who can be prosecuted for this?
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2024-10-01 20:50:05

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@npub1xem…mlys Do not follow live sports, listen to podcasts, use timers, track deliveries, etc?

2024-09-30 20:11:26

The Street’s inability to accurately guess new iPhone sales continues to be a predictable annual parody, but I digress.
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2024-09-30 19:28:56

Corruption + cluelessness runs deep, 2022:
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2024-09-26 19:16:44

Speaking of Larry Summers’s approaching birthday, Paul Samuelson in 1966: “Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions!”

2024-09-26 18:28:12

Thank you, wealthy NYC donors for your service!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/nyregion/eric-adams-donors-sliwa.html
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2024-09-26 03:24:30

C’mon, if you run a business-supported law&order mayoral campaign, where’s the harm if you crime a bit on the side?! #DeepState

2024-09-25 21:53:13

Speaking of farewell letters, there’s a fairly tight correlation between one’s role in a company being diminished and their departure.

2024-09-25 21:13:15

Perhaps an unpopular opinion but the current pre-taped vs live keynotes is overblown nonsense. In the end, it all depends on how well they are structured and executed.

2024-09-25 20:49:46

“Cheap Al will cost a fortune”

2024-09-24 21:25:04

Would you volunteer to serve two years at a minimum-security facility in order to keep $11 billion in crypto?

2024-09-24 21:18:39

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@npub1pj2…5lvg @npub12h0…e7sz You guys can’t t tolerate icons breathing and stretching a bit after all the finger abuse they get all they long?!

2024-09-20 17:16:46

Dangerous, maybe the Board should look into it?
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2024-09-19 21:14:23

Arrange your life accordingly: days until…
2024
Halloween: 42
Elections: 47
Thanksgiving: 70
Christmas: 97
2025
Certification: 109
Inauguration: 123

2024-09-18 05:29:21

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@npub1gsk…hkeq Yes, but relying on TikTok as the source of your news is a bit more problematic.

2024-09-17 20:40:04

Does time fly?
1970 - Newsweek cover: “Is Privacy Dead?”
1999 - Sun CEO Scott McNealy: "You have zero privacy anyway…Get over it."
2024 - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison: “Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on.”
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2024-09-17 20:00:16

Apple Card.
Goldman out, JPMorgan in?
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/jpmorgan-in-talks-with-apple-to-take-over-credit-card-from-goldman-67b24d14
Apple News: https://apple.news/A-StdYN3qSdmZDsrqJtGtTA

2024-09-16 20:36:41

As AI training backend is slowly commodified, the future belongs to those that control the inference at the frontend.
(The rest is GPU noise.)

2024-09-15 04:08:53

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@npub1cln…glpr Efficient markets at work.

2024-09-14 22:51:39

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@npub125j…hlwy First, every AI gets its own small cathedral, with a basement reserved for alchemy.

2024-09-14 22:41:07

Well done, people, we’ve now reached the medieval theology stage of AI regulation.
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2024-09-14 20:04:05

Doomed!
https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/13/making-iphones-theft-proof/

2024-09-13 21:13:31

SaaS → AIaaS → The End of Software ?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/103cGe8qixC7ZzFsRu5Ww2VEW5YgH9zQaiaqbBsZ1lcc/edit

2024-09-13 19:43:42

Should you be hiring more junior devs?
https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/09/07/your-team-needs-juniors

2024-09-13 12:38:17

Teflon Nadella?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/microsoft-ai-oil-contracts/679804/?gift=lhL3dXSYCcu9vqTqEbg0OHfJiu_TRdq079IHN4QaSAE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-09-13 12:15:37

iPhone 16 Pro Ultra 4TB RED, done!

2024-09-12 21:31:37

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@npub1ke3…xcva You may think that, but I couldn't possibly comment.

2024-09-12 19:41:55

This Guinness World Record perfectly demonstrates the utility differential between iOS and Android products:
https://www.yankodesign.com/2024/09/11/7-foot-iphone-15-pro-max-is-the-worlds-largest-iphone-and-it-runs-android/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=7-foot-iphone-15-pro-max-is-the-worlds-largest-iphone-and-it-runs-android

2024-09-12 06:40:20

EU rent seeking on US tech to ease?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-09-11/europe-faces-pivotal-choice-to-close-tech-innovation-gap-regulate-or-innovate
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2024-09-10 21:28:32

MagSafe for coats, from LoveFrom.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91185536/jony-ives-lovefrom-reinvents-the-button-with-moncler

2024-09-10 20:13:03

BAD: $3,500 spatial computing device
GOOD: $2,800 tri-foldable phone
BETTER: ???

2024-09-07 23:22:51

You can run but you can’t hide.
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2024-09-05 19:30:14

Which is most important to become a successful Influencer?
a) Content creation
b) Thought leadership
c) Elbow grease
d) Good manners
e) Above-average height
f) $400K/month Russian contract

2024-09-05 18:02:28

Let’s see if we can screw up something that’s worked well for most users, in the name of platform busting.
Apple Pay edition.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/5/24235874/apple-pay-10-years-open-nfc-ios

2024-09-05 00:30:15

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@npub1qe3…xnza Internships with free industrial training!

2024-09-04 20:17:55

Not sure how much nationalizing Intel will cost us, but I’m saving my pennies.

2024-09-04 03:55:57

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@npub1vcm…5f9k Fertility? Do we we need fertility where we’re going in the robot universe?

2024-09-04 03:52:14

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@npub1xfh…awf9 Does he already not have a whole bunch of them stocked someplace?!

2024-09-04 00:09:20

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@npub1t4w…80vq Think of all the savings otherwise, though, that’d bring tears to your average hedge fund manager.

2024-09-03 19:24:11

Think about it…if LLMs can easily do homework assigned to elementary school students, why do we even need children?!

2024-09-03 18:42:54

"Tech Support"
San Francisco, circa 20??
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2024-09-01 03:30:51

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@npub1jjq…ksgt Well, spatial computing hasn't just materialized last year either. Also Math Notes will be shipping to millions within days, for a measure. #BigTech.

2024-09-01 03:18:03

Who’s going to tell him about ‘spatial computing’ and Vision Pro?
https://mastodon.social/@Gte/113060073156743588

2024-08-31 21:53:42

Canada still trying to discriminate against American tech companies and tax payers.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/08/31/us-fights-canada-over-new-tech-tax-that-could-cost-apple-billions?utm_medium=rss

2024-08-31 21:32:10

Since when is it a crime to ‘misuse company funds to pay for Lamborghinis and one’s racing hobby’…for a company named OSOM, which the company says stands for “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”?!
https://www.androidauthority.com/osom-privacy-lawsuit-3477182/

2024-08-31 20:08:19

FACT: Apple retail stores are (still) too loud for non-trivial conversations with the staff.

2024-08-31 04:15:51

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@npub1jjq…ksgt Who can we blame, France or Apple?

2024-08-31 03:51:13

It’s midnight in NYC and Djokovic is wandering around Queens looking for his serve. Satisfying early exit from the Open, for the rest of us.

2024-08-30 19:32:05

Remember Zoom?
Is there a more iconic pandemic stock?
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2024-08-28 21:27:09

Stocks’ down –5.4% in after hours.
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2024-08-28 21:13:20

Speaking of the DOJ+15 states’ antitrust case against Apple, U.S. District Court Judge who declared Google a monopolist also agreed with Google it was not “required to spur competition by accommodating” its rivals.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-monopoly-ruling-could-help-apple-defense-antitrust-case-2024-08-06/

2024-08-28 18:21:49

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@npub1lgk…5rtx What on earth happened in 1943?!
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2024-08-28 18:02:37

After the near-instant collapse of everybody’s tech piñata Ai Pin, how genius is it to name a somewhat similar AI-wearable ‘NotePin’?
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2024-08-28 02:30:58

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@npub1j2u…c034 Feeling the inexorable weight of history or are you just vacationing at a galaxy far away?

2024-08-27 02:00:51

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@npub1g8j…02l7 Are you also going to allow him to eat a little bit next?

2024-08-26 22:22:21

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@npub1l3c…2xsn She hasn’t won yet?

2024-08-26 21:23:12

Now that Apple has no obvious The Next Product™ category in the labs to introduce by the end of 2025, what happens to Tim Cook, does he
a) leave
b) make a huge-by-Apple-standards acquisition
c) steer Apple into a new industry
d) call on Scott Forstall

2024-08-26 19:48:46

Has anyone figured out yet how Apple got permission from FCC to put a charge-once-a-month subnuclear battery into the new iPhone Pro line?
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2024-08-25 18:41:39

Are you old enough to remember that before Apple became apparently “too big to not regulate” by EU, Europe gave us the abundantly user-friendly Symbian smartphone platform and the multi-billion dollar ringtone industry?

2024-08-19 21:46:54

Remember Daylight Computer that was going to change the tablet experience?
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2024-08-19 20:58:13

“Come 5 p.m., laptops shut” → drinks → books → conversation …
Can book bars work in NYC?
https://ny.eater.com/2024/8/14/24220327/bookstore-bars-new-york-lizs-book-bar-book-club-bar-bibliotheque-sullaluna

2024-08-19 20:25:26

Human-generated digital data that will last “hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of years.”?
ElOhEl who needs that, isn’t the human species pre-programmed to self-destruct sooner than later? Burn it all down!
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/19/1096284/data-archives-archeologists-tiktok-future-wayback-machine/
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2024-08-19 19:53:45

So a tabletop iPad tablet that can autonomously pivot around its connecting arm & body is now called a robot, “reportedly code-named J595 internally”?
(robotOS or bust!)

2024-08-18 22:13:56

Totally…52 seconds to Doomsday Clock, Tiananmen Square, 1984, Hiroshima, etc.
https://mastodon.social/@tuomas_h/112983774755792341

2024-08-18 20:20:55

"There's no rest for the wicked."

2024-08-17 22:48:30

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@npub19e3…hdrz 150? What’s that in American years?

2024-08-17 20:08:05

So many manly fashion angles…and The Wall Street Journal’s on it!
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2024-08-16 23:28:12

Genius!
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2024-08-15 22:52:28

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@npub19e3…hdrz Canada B-boy Phil Wizard thinks he did.

2024-08-15 22:44:55

What do they know that I don’t?
Is Canada trying to kidnap and hold me as a hostage with a direct mail operation now?!
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2024-08-15 22:22:12

You’re on your own here.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-bros-treat-dating-like-a-startup-2024-8
Apple News: https://apple.news/A30jyUK_sSH2mr57kDEtxNg
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2024-08-15 20:28:20

THEN: “Just do it.”
NOW: “Winning Isn’t for Everyone?”
(What changed, Nike?!)

2024-08-14 21:37:27

Wherein Google’s ex-CEO Eric Schmidt challenges Bank of America CEO to a cage match over woke mind virus.
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2024-08-14 21:16:26

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@npub1kkw…hfrq Most likely.

2024-08-14 20:45:08

Why would this be happening to Google?
a) AT&T woke mind virus
b) Apple putting pressure on AT&T
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2024-08-14 20:15:09

Are we sure it wasn’t the, you know, the woke mind virus? Termites? Swifties?
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2024-08-13 21:25:32

(No.)
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2024-08-13 21:16:51

(No.)
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2024-08-13 20:13:44

(No.)
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2024-08-13 04:59:09

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@npub1vtn…gvyt Pretty much all Olympic sports have strict rules, regulations, targets, mandatory moves, timings, (mostly) objective scoring, etc. Breaking? No.

2024-08-12 21:09:47

So are we no longer on Freedom Fries terms with France after the Olympics?

2024-08-12 21:03:11

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@npub1yea…3zln It’d be a shame if something happened to Apple’s obvious dominance in the ‘performance symbols’ market.

2024-08-12 20:40:54

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@npub1585…7awj In this case, Apple’s customer is Patreon, not you.
Patreon is trying to justify its own 12% “rent” by leveraging Apple’s huge platform.
You need to ask Patreon why?

2024-08-12 20:15:12

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@npub1585…7awj Patreon is a VC-back for-profit company, taking ~12% avg cut of sales (vs the applicable 15% at App Store).
You want Apple to carve out an ideological exception for a specific commercial entity?

2024-08-12 00:35:10

The future looks bleak.
From Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité to salsa picante, see you in 2028.

2024-08-10 21:14:50

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@npub18vn…g8x3 Not for a price?

2024-08-10 19:05:59

How much money (per month) would you pay for ad-free Apple News ++?

2024-08-10 18:15:47

"Humane was founded by former Apple employees Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno. They wanted something that would rival the iPhone."
The investors made a shamefully lazy decision to fund these clowns based on their résumés, but why drag Apple's name into this dumpster fire.

2024-08-09 18:59:14

As if there’s a proper IKEA store around mid-Manhattan to shop for one!
(With apologies to @npub1elf…pd6n)
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2024-08-09 18:25:47

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@npub1a26…dzzq Right, good intentions don’t matter if you find yourself in opposition to your publisher’s ideology. You won’t survive for long.

2024-08-09 18:09:48

“Obligation”?
This is a perilously naive take, and not how journalism works.
It assumes reporters – and more importantly their publishers – can be ideologically neutral. Evidence clearly shows, on a daily basis, they are not.
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2024-08-08 23:24:49

Unit testing, with animals?
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