Incentives
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An Interview with Google Cloud Platform CEO Thomas Kurian About Building an Enterprise Culture
An interview with Google Cloud Platform CEO Thomas Kurian about Google’s infrastructure advantage and building and enterprise service culture.
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Apple’s China Problem, Apple in the Short Term, Tech’s Complement Risk
A focus on the tariff’s impact on Apple specifically, and how Apple itself contributed to China’s technological development.
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YouTube TV, Wiz, and Why Monopolies Buy Innovation
Google could aggregate TV, but it might not have the product capability; that’s a convoluted way of explaining why buying Wiz is a good idea
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An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company
An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about building OpenAI and ChatGPT, and what it means to be an accidental consumer tech company.
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Intel’s New CEO, Reevaluating Gelsinger, Lip-Bu Tan and Cadence
Intel’s new CEO casts Pat Gelsinger’s tenure and firing in a new light: was Intel’s problem simply bad execution?
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Metallica on Vision Pro, Non-Immersive Immersive Video, Ping and AI
Metallica on the Vision Pro was cool, but ultimately disappointing, and symbolic of Apple’s need to control everything.
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A Google I/O Idea, The Smartphone AI Value Chain, Apple’s Developer Hang-Ups
More on Apple and AI, this time through the lens of Google’s point of integration and where Apple should be in response. Plus, why Apple is so hostile to developers.
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Microsoft EOLs Skype, Skype’s Founding, Microsoft’s Skype Charity
Microsoft is pulling the plug on Skype, a service they never should have acquired and on which they spent way too much time and money; I’m still sad.