Good morning, I received multiple reports that Friday’s Daily Update was marked as containing phishing links. I can absolutely confirm this is not the case, so if you missed it, please take a look in your spam folder. For the third Monday in a row I’m writing about media – Media Mondays if you will.Subscribe […]
Daily Update: Box Updates S-1 (and Look Great), Instagram Passes 300 Million, Microsoft Acquires HockeyApp
Good morning, According to Panic, Apple changed its mind about Transmit’s ability to add external files to iCloud Drive. This is certainly a positive development, and while I might be biased, I think it actually fits with what I wrote on Wednesday: a major stink was raised, alerting Apple’s engineering team to the issue, andSubscribe […]
Daily Update: How to Violate Privacy Like a Professional, Microsoft Acquires Acompli, Amazon’s Kiva Cleverness
Good morning, Thanks so much for the overwhelming response to yesterday’s request for feedback. I really appreciated the kind words. I’m going to give the 4 and 1 system a shot for a few weeks and then go from there. Look for an earlier-than-usual big article early next week. On to the update: How toSubscribe […]
Daily Update: The Content Creator Opportunity, Firefox’s “Strategic Choice”, Qualcomm to Build ARM Server Chips
Good morning, I wrote a new piece on Stratechery yesterday that will arrive in your mailboxes soon. In short, I heard from many, many readers that they preferred to receive posts in their email along with the Daily Updates. If you would prefer to not receive emails about posts on the main blog, please holdSubscribe […]
Daily Update: A Positive Sign for Intel, and a Bad One; Apple WatchKit
Good morning, I almost edited out the line in yesterday’s piece about Uber that stated Emil Michael would probably be fired, and I probably should have: CEO Travis Kalanick seemed to suggest in a tweetstorm that Emil Michael wasn’t going anywhere. Of course things could change, but what kind of CEO would keep someone onSubscribe […]
Daily Update: The Uber Problem, Samsung’s Next Act, Nokia is Back!
Good morning, With regards to yesterday’s note on the web not being dead, John Gruber wrote a great post called Native Apps are Part of the Web; I also forgot that I wrote a guest post earlier this year defending the web for writers. Still, though, it doesn’t really matter what any of us think:Subscribe […]
Daily Update: Facebook’s Trio of Announcements, Apple Adds UnionPay, The Web Isn’t Dying
Good morning, I fell pretty drastically behind on both email and in processing rebates/credits over the last few days, so my apologies for any delays. I’ll be taking care of that this week. On to the update: Facebook Facebook Facebook There was a trio of noteworthy Facebook announcements over the weekend: Facebook is improving itsSubscribe […]
Daily Update: .NET and Microsoft’s Mobile Opportunity, New Relic Files for IPO, GitHub Enterprise 2.0
Good morning, Thank you to everyone for the kind words after yesterday’s announcement about Stratechery’s success-to-date (check out that post for an expanded version of what I wrote yesterday). As I intimated yesterday, I don’t plan on talking much more about this; I just want to think about and write interesting stuff, and I’m reallySubscribe […]
Daily Update: Bandcamp, Tencent Earnings, Twitter’s Analyst Day, plus a Stratechery Announcement
Good morning, A few quick bits of housekeeping: First off, I’ve heard from enough people that they really don’t want to get articles in their email. I’m going to have a think about the best way to proceed Secondly, I’m going to put a brief note up on Stratechery later today announcing some of theSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Qualcomm’s Challenges, Uber’s Potential
Good morning, A quick update about the transition to a single membership level: Monthly Access members ($30/month) have all been transitioned to a standard Daily Update subscription ($10/month). I have prorated your payment and applied credit to future billings. If you would prefer a refund (the amounts will range from $1 to $20), please contactSubscribe […]