Publishers’ Deal with the Devil

Ay, we must die an everlasting death. What doctrine call you this, Che sera, sera, What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu! – The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe To evoke Faust as allegory for the ongoing dispute between Amazon and book publishers is appropriate on two levels, the first being the nature […]

Daily Update: Twitter Earnings, WWDC Hardware Speculation, Google Identity

Good morning, I believe I have isolated the private feed problem being experienced by Feedly users to aggressive cacheing by my host, WPEngine. They are investigating the issue and will hopefully have a fix some time today. Sorry for the trouble. On to the update. Twitter’s Earnings Twitter’s stock is getting killed in after-hours afterSubscribe […]

Black Box Strategy

With the announcement of the Amazon Fire TV and the leak of the alleged Android TV, all of the major players have (or soon will have) a TV offering. There’s been a lot of talk about how similar the products are, but those similarities are for good reason; what is more interesting to me are […]

How much will CarPlay cost?

Wes Miller has a useful summary of CarPlay: In short, Apple hasn’t done a complete end around of the OEM – the automaker can still have their own UI for their own in-car functions, and then Apple’s distinct CarPlay UI (very familiar to anyone who has used iOS 7) is there when you’re “in CarPlay”, […]