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Trying is the first step to failure. Words on platform architecture, product design, tech business and cultural history.
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AP: “NBA referees wear headsets during games beginning Saturday”

(Easier to place bets as the game continues, a skeptical commentator might say.)
In One Is Not Like the Others, expected capex spending in billions this year:
Amazon: $120
Alphabet: $92
Meta: $71
Apple: $12.7
“China Smartphone Market off to Strong Q4 on Stellar iPhone Sales”
There was a time when

You accessed the internet nobody else could use the telephone at home,

You had to go to a bank branch to deposit checks,

You couldn’t binge-watch TV series.

(You’re still complaining?!)
‘All eight authors of the “Attention [Is All You Need]” paper have left Google.’

(Should heads roll at Cupertino?)
Meanwhile in market cap horse race, AI poster boy $MSFT is now trailing $AAPL that’s fallen so far behind in AI, by $120B.
CNBC: “[Meta’s] Reality Labs division has now recorded over $70 billion in cumulative losses since late 2020, underscoring the high costs of building VR, AR and other consumer hardware.”

$META down 7.18% after hours.
Imagine an external display. In glorious monochrome. Full Page.
Are you saying LEGOs are inedible?!
Wanting to see everything around us made out of LEGOs is a sign of what?
Let’s not forget it took Homo sapiens only about 3,000-4,000 years to go from developing writing to generating AI slop.

(Heads should roll at Cupertino!)
At IMDb, a short trailer for a 2005 movie interrupted in-frame by a DOZEN ads (3 distinct short ads repeated 4 times.)

Is this eyesore of a presentation normal for the 40th most visited website in the world, is there no shame?
FACT: If sports gambling was legal in the US then mafia, refs, coaches, players, etc wouldn’t need to resort to criminal acts of gambling.
I think “Headline of The Week: Market” award is hereby taken.
Can your Apple Intelligence do this?!!
“Having seen some of these experiences on Apple Vision Pro, I still think about them often. They are several generations ahead of Meta's offerings – almost incomparable. It is better than the biggest IMAX cinema.”

(Demand for 3D movies?)

www.flatpanelshd.com/focus.php?su...
Why Apple's 3D format outshines 3D Blu-ray
And why it is just the beginning
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Is there any pixel safe from advertising?!
Which is the worse business decision?
a) F1-Apple TV deal
b) Apple Sports app
Why hasn’t the EU started an investigation of Apple already?!
Every year the same iPhone, why can’t Apple innovate like this!!