🔗 WWW
🔗 Goldman Sachs Boosts Apple Inc. with Positive App Store Trends
NB: No meaningful (or perhaps even measurable) impact from off-Appstore payments alternatives. Turns out adding friction to a frictionless business is not an attractive option for the customer.
💬 Horace Dediu
‘Ease’ replaces ‘Price’ in my 🖇️ 4 E Model for the Age of Engagement.
I feel I might have shared this in the past - but bears repeating.
🔗 How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old – The Marginalian
Read. Read as much as possible. Read the big stuff, the challenging stuff, the confronting stuff, and read the fun stuff too. Visit galleries and look at paintings, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts — be a little vampire running around the place sucking up all the art and ideas you can. Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world. Have fun. Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being. Fully understand your enormous value in the scheme of things because the planet needs people like you, smart young creatives full of awe, who can minister to the world with positive, mischievous energy, young people who seek spiritual enrichment and who see hatred and disconnection as the corrosive forces they are. These are manifest indicators of a human being with immense potential.
💬 Nick Cave
🔗 Apple Repeats Release Date for New Version of Siri – Asymco
NB: I’m told repetition is necessary in order for others to understand. Sometimes you’re supposed to say the same thing twice. Sometimes even three times. But still, some fail to grasp the idea.
Tell ‘em what you are going to say.
Tell ‘em.
Tell ‘em what you said.
…number one rule of any presentation.
Then again - there are so many comments made about Apple by people that clearly do not understand Apple that it is no surprise that this keeps slipping through.
🔗 The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
@manton - saw this and thought might be an interesting spin on your new Longreads feed on Micro Blog.
From the same post - love it. One day corporate decision makers will think before making decisions. (Or did some lowly dev make this decision all by themselves.)
Sky’s website let you search for shows but, for some unfathomable reason, at the time required you to type in at least three letters. I said this was a problem, since Sky’s most popular and so presumably most searched-for series then was ER.
🔗 Network map of Bluesky users.
Theo Sanderson visualized the network of 3.4 million Bluesky users, placed by follow patterns. It is searchable and interactive.
.. you can find you
.. and apparently I am specifically ‘there’ because that is where i fit with other followers ..
You can also check your followers - and your followers' followers ….
Suddenly you could be ‘all over the place’.
Still not sure what someone like me can do with this - but who cares. It’s wonderful.
I have never really looked into Ghost - but plenty of people have - and they tell me how great it is. And I have no reason to believe otherwise, so hard to believe that this has only just happened.
Starting today, automated welcome emails are now built right into Ghost .
The old promise of platforms will provide is broken.
➕
Your authentic ideas are lost in a sea of algorithmic content designed for engagement.
We’re not going back.
Now we need to build something new.
What we build is up to us.
🔗 There’s no such thing as Tech ~ Ten years later - Anil Dash
Not wrong - yet constantly amazed by how this isn’t main stream thinking - by any stretch of the imagination.
🔗 Why the SpaceX, xAI Merger, IPO, and Pivot to the Moon?
No idea if this is right - and clearly neither does he - BUT - interesting read.
🔗 Turning AppAdddict into a Fully Searchable Archive with Integrity, Raindrop, and EagleFiler
I might have to borrow use some most of this from @louplummer.lol …
🔗 3D Printer Surveillance - Schneier on Security
One day we will have people in positions that make laws that actually understand the stuff that they are making laws about,
Horace again …
🔗 Does Apple’s AI Opportunity Outweigh Component Cost Inflation?
Unlike many of its peers, Apple isn’t in the race to win AI benchmarks or translate those gains into tangible financial gains. It just needs those features to change behavior and pave the way for healthier services revenue.
🍎 is not playing ‘our’ game - except for ‘announcements’ that for whatever reason they have decided to join. They clearly do not know how to play it and are losing. Badly.
Horace … 🔗 iPhone only Smartphone to Grow in China this January
Clearly 🍎 has lost the plot.
🔗📼🎵 The forgotten band that changed British rock music.
In all honesty - not a great video - but just happy to see The Strawbs being talked about.
Not a cover - totally original - and brilliant as Ren often is.
Cover 2
Loved Tears for Fears - Bluegrass not so much - BUT there is some superb Bluegrass work that leaks through to my appreciative ears.
Like this one.
📼🔗🎵 Sierra Hull - Mad World (Tears For Fears) | DelFest (2022) - YouTube
Cover 1
Loved Yes - never a big fan of Asia - despite Asia often being made up of people I love … like Wetton, Howe, Palmer and Downes for example and Fanfare is one of my favourite ELP tracks.
(BTW - nothing like ELPs and IMHO a massive improvement.)
🔗 Communities are not fungible
Economists have a word for assets that can be swapped one-for-one without loss of value: fungible. A dollar is fungible. A barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude is fungible.
Just like ‘content’.
Dont like that idea? Stop calling your work content.
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