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  • Netflix Angst, The End of the Internet, Q&A on Meta’s VR Glasses, Anthropic Alignment, You Can See Everything

    Sharp Tech | Oct 23
    Netflix Angst, The End of the Internet, Q&A on Meta’s VR Glasses, Anthropic Alignment, You Can See Everything
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  • Xbox’s Announcement; Microsoft’s Messy Middle; Apple in Europe, Continued

    Monday, February 19, 2024

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    The specifics of Microsoft’s Xbox announcements don’t portend big changes, and economic factors explain why. Then, more Apple news from the EU.


  • Vision Pro on an Airplane, The Apple TV+ Services Story, Apple Earnings Notes

    Tuesday, February 13, 2024

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    Vision Pro is a revelation on an airplane, how demoes show the importance of Apple TV+, and notes from Apple’s earnings


  • An Interview with Eric Seufert About Meta at the Top

    Thursday, February 8, 2024

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    An interview with Eric Seufert about Meta’s blowout quarter and where the company goes next, anxiety about Google search, and Apple’s fight with developers and regulators


  • Apple and the DMA, Apple and “Or”, A Reluctant Apple Apologist

    Monday, January 29, 2024

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    Apple has unveiled its response to the E.U. Given the company’s insistence on monetizing its intellectual property, the response primarily serves to explain why the current App Store model isn’t the worst thing in the world.


  • Microsoft, Activision, and Ubisoft(?!); The Activision Deal; Foolhardy Forecasting

    Tuesday, August 22, 2023

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    Microsoft has substantially reworked its deal with Activision to satisfy U.K. regulators; it’s a win for the CMA, and time to consider what comes next.


  • Adyen Earnings, Adyen’s European Context, Adyen vs. Stripe

    Monday, August 21, 2023

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    Adyen, the Stripe of Europe, had its roughest earnings as a public company; the biggest takeaway is how different their business actually is


  • An Interview with Eric Seufert About Streaming Advertising, Generative AI, and Marketing Automation

    Thursday, May 25, 2023

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    An interview with Eric Seufert about Mobile Dev Memo’s new business model, the prospects for streamers building advertising business model, the potential for generative AI in advertising, along with the dangers of relying too much on marketing automation, and whether or not Meta figured out ATT. We also discuss Facebook Shops and Shopify, and the E.U.’s…


  • Meta’s Low E.U. ARPU, The Supreme Court and Section 230

    Tuesday, May 23, 2023

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    Meta makes a surprisingly small amount of money in the E.U., particularly on an ARPU basis; then, the Supreme Court signals strong support for Section 230


  • EU Fines Meta, Big Tech Exposure, The Degradation of Scalability

    Monday, May 22, 2023

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    The E.U. fines Meta for data transfers, an issue that affects companies of all sizes. This may be rectified by an agreement, but tech scalability is still diminishing.


  • Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles

    Monday, May 15, 2023

    Google A/I suggests that AI is a sustaining innovation for all of Big Tech; that means the real battle will be between incumbents and Big Tech on one side, and open source on the other.


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    The Duo Review
  • Aday Mara and the OKC Woodchipper, An Emergency Celtics Panic Watch, Silver Appreciation(???) and Laker Dreams

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