Stephen Gordon on Apple TV enters fantasyland - 'This can get subjective in a heartbeat.'
on How to turn an Apple Vision Pro into a retro videogame arcade - 'Here’s the article from Stuff that speaks on the Retrocade App for Vision Pro and was the source for the Video link above. It’s pretty interesting and for those AVP owners, would you let us know what you think of this application for the AVP? apple news/ A_ICRPpRXRBubRJ-DZ469Fg'
on Scott Galloway: Unsubscribe from everything Apple and avoid buying its hardware - 'You won’t be able to afford an alternative – after the lawsuit for not having insurance! 🙂'
on Saturday Apple video: Steve Jobs' gives his 4-week 'status report' at Macworld 1997 - 'I saw this on live video in 1997. That is, I was in Cupertino, watching as he was talking in Boston. He had taken the red-eye flight to get there. I’ve been thinking a comment I heard where Steve attributed his cancer to the wear on his body from running Apple. At the time, I didn’t fully appreciate all of the work he was doing. Looking back, it is remarkable how much he handled, and how well he handled it. What he says in this video gives a good sample of that. He presents this as a four week status report, but he’d been working hard on Apple for many months before this. From what I can tell, he reviewed every single project Apple was doing, and killed three quarters of them. Once a project survived that review, there was no question that it would survive. This added a lot of stability. I also liked his new board of directors. I was impressed that he took the time to do this right.'
on Apple TV enters fantasyland - 'Forbidden Planet is also one of the best Star Trek movies 😉 And the special effects still hold up. A lot of great science fiction is cautionary, like what happens if we have the wrong people in charge. Hard science fiction lives off of hard science but there is great SF looking at how diverse cultures work with one another. Cherryh’s work is all about this with the Chanur series a peak.'
on Taboola ads are giving Apple News a bad name - '80% of the revenue growth supposedly attributable to ai as claimed by google and meta is really just their price extortion, lack of alternative platforms and/or lazy advertisers allowing “all ai features”. This conveniently boosts the platforms revenue and is great for stock price and employee options/bonuses. But their AI in ad systems are so oblique as to what they do beyond their salespeople saying “you just need to trust the ai” and “advertisers that turn on all ai features decreased their cost per conversion by 17%”. I’m not denying their revenue/profits being boosted by ai but I would love to see an audit and study of what is really happening behind the scenes and how it benefits advertisers.'
on What's keeping Wedbush's Daniel Ives up at night - '“My take: He might also sleep better if someone turned up the heat in his apartment.” I believe that’s actually his Wedbush office, not his apartment.'
on Apple TV enters fantasyland - 'Hi, RIchard. The best SF from my POV is interested in telling a story that sticks as close as possible to actual reality. Yes, sufficiently advanced science can seem like magic, as for example my prime example, Forbidden Planet. But there’s nothing in Forbidden Planet that doesn’t check the boxes of being potentially factually based – with the possible exception of the FTL travel of the spaceship. BTW, the underpinnings of Forbidden Planet are supposed to be Shakespeare’s The Tempest….'
on Scott Galloway: Unsubscribe from everything Apple and avoid buying its hardware - 'If I am remembering correctly, Scott Galloway has wanted to break up big tech, including Apple, for quite a while now. This just gives him an excuse to call for the knee jerk reaction, which is his right to do but doesn’t really cost him anything. But I believe he cashed in on selling a start up to big tech if I am remembering correctly. So, maybe, since he believes he can ride out any storm, he can pontificate from the mount. If he really wants to change behavior, I believe what he needs to do is get people talking to each other and figuring out the common ground and try to get something done. Sort of like what Tim Cook is trying to do.'
on Scott Galloway: Unsubscribe from everything Apple and avoid buying its hardware - 'Thinking about this a bit more: I think the right response is for the Apple community to make a big public stink. Not by boycotting, but by being vocal about our disappointment in Apple and Tim Cook. But boycotting basically says “We’ve given up on Apple” and that’s a message that doesn’t particularly encourage Apple to respond. (That’s the general problem with boycotts, they remove leverage.)'
on Taboola ads are giving Apple News a bad name - 'I would never click an Apple News ad. I can see the AI generated ads a mile away. I’ve learned to skip right by them. I do appreciate that Apple News plus often has articles from paywalled, popup ridden sites that are annoying.'
on Scott Galloway: Unsubscribe from everything Apple and avoid buying its hardware - 'Apple is the antithesis of Trump. One has conscience the other not.'
on Scott Galloway: Unsubscribe from everything Apple and avoid buying its hardware - 'I have started my boycott by canceling all insurance. If something breaks, I’ll look for an alternative.'
