Technology
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Living in a Glass House: What is the New York Times?
As an everyday exercise in self-discipline, I try to resist commenting on the New York Times’ banal and tin-eared OnTech newsletter, despite its impressive daily attempts to maintain a monotonic function of being “the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard”. I previously suggested some ideas to perhaps make the newsletter more lively and self-aware, and hoped…
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Living in a Glass House: The New York Times On Tech
Tl;dr: Some topics are suggested for the New York Times’ technology newsletter that are perhaps more lively and self-aware than their usual fare Despite regular skirmishing between “Silicon Valley” and the self-appointed hall monitors from the New York Times’ seemingly merged Style and Technology sections, the Times’ daily OnTech newsletter flies beneath the radar. Perhaps…
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Missing the (Bamboo) Forest for the (Apple) Trees
Apple laid the blame for its market-mangling earnings miss on China, noting “over 100 percent of our year-over-year worldwide revenue decline occurred in Greater China.” The announcement roiled markets and unleashed the usual hurricane of evergreen opinions about Apple’s premium pricing and perceived pace of innovation, differentiation in the smartphone market, and the wisdom of…