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If this wasn't Epic's strategy all along, it probably should have been. Because it played out almost exactly as I thought it would, strategy-wise. With Apple looking foolish. Or worse...

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It's not just AI slop, it's AI sloppy. ⌾ The Inner Ring ⌾

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Google would surely be seeking $100B+ for Chrome if they were forced to sell it...

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📩 Spyglass Dispatch 📆 April 29, 2025 • Top iPhones Still Need China • Motorola's Wooden Foldable Razr • Microsoft in OpenAI's Dust • Revenge of the Sith, Indeed

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It's getting rather comical in terms of how much Apple is bringing these two OSes together without either merging them or letting you just boot macOS on the very capable iPad Pro...

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Microsoft and OpenAI may be bickering once again, but what is causing the strain now?

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God forbid anyone actually reads a room. Better to change the room. ⌾ The Inner Ring ⌾

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If Comet is compelling enough as a product, Perplexity have a shot to do something here...

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Netflix skewers the "outdated" movie theater model...

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📩Spyglass Dispatch 📆 April 25, 2025 • iPhones from India • The New Siri Team • Notion Mail • Gemini UsersStartups & Tariffs

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EC fines compounding would constitute an actual pounding to Apple's bottom line...

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A decade from now, in the inevitable wave of Big AI™ trials, the verdicts may very well come down to the same old question: buy, build, or bury? ⌾ The Inner Ring ⌾

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While Netflix failed to become HBO is a good way, HBO failed to become Netflix in a bad way...

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It's one thing to offer the Llama models on their clouds – again, they're "open source" (read: open weight) and thus, free – it's another to help pay to build them! ⌾ The Inner Ring ⌾

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Oh, OpenAI would take Chrome off Google's hands? The burden of those 3+ billion users too? How magnanimous of them!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Specifically, $230M is not $16.45B. And $570M is not $39.1B. 🥊

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📥 Spyglass Dispatch 📆 April 22, 2025 • Startups & Tariffs • 'Sinners' Reaps Rewards • iPhone 17 Air Pre-Preview • Blue Origin's Space Cadets • Hycean Life

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Things are always litigated in hindsight, of course. But tech's always accelerating evolution seems to be making antitrust litigation especially hard... ⌾ The Inner Ring ⌾

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Google's web domain registrar was great, so obviously they had to kill it...

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📩 Spyglass Dispatch 📆 April 17, 2025 • AI Venture Investment • Perplexity Phones • Meta and Apple AI • OpenAI's New Ideas Breakthrough

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I, for one, will not believe we have achieved AGI until an AI can fully explain this naming structure. And we're not there yet.

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One day, these companies will likely learn to keep such communication to phone calls or, even better, in person. Luckily for us, today is not that day.

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Beats as the brand for products that Apple doesn't want to brand as Apple products...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

A freak in the yeets?

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Can the Squid become the Whale? (Can Netflix become a $1T company?)

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This is one of those subtle tweaks that I wouldn't be shocked if it portends far greater things: a massive expansion of Apple into the advertising business.

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If the government were to force Meta to sell off Instagram, the entire company is fucked.

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With both the Vision Pro and iPadOS, Apple is seemingly pivoting to the "faster horses" strategy... (i.e. give the users what they're asking for.) ⌾ The Inner Ring ⌾

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Tariff exemptions secured. Tim Apple is back, baby.

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We're all AI models, walking around, training on the three and a half pound meat computers in our skulls... ⌾ The Inner Ring ⌾

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These reports paint a picture of Apple that wasn't just aimless, they were rudderless.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Hold your iPhone close, literally. Probably keep it in your pocket.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

A mixture of comedy and chaos. Shocking, I know.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The only possible way to join the trillion-dollar companies above is to ride the next technological wave. ⌾ The Inner Ring ⌾

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And just like that, Apple is no longer the most valuable company in the world.

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I'm sorry, you need to come up with something better than the old slogan with more expository.

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People willing to do crazy things often get what they want because most people aren't willing to do crazy things. That's the ultimate art of Trump's deal, I suspect.

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📩 Spyglass Dispatch 📆 April 7, 2025 • Waiting on Alexa+ • Larry Ellison, Media Mogul • Visa Going Hard After Apple Card • Apple Watch's 'Health+'

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I'm old enough to remember when videogame adaptations were pure poison at the box office...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Nintendo debated the name 'Super Switch' but worried it would confuse consumers who remembered the Super Nintendo (which didn't play original Nintendo games). Meh, weak...

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What are you hearing around the Alexa+ launch so far? Likely a bunch of crickets…

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Four tickets to ride… all at once. Crazy, or a brilliant release strategy?

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One element has been behind the recent moves of Xitter, CoreWeave, and OpenAI: debt. ⌾ The Inner Ring ⌾

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It’s not Max, it’s not HBO, it’s Max with HBO’s old logo…

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Without a theatrical release, no one can hear your studio head scream. spyglass.org/the-electric...

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TL;DRs don't work very well if the AI didn't even R.

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There's a new $100B+ AI startup in town as xAI takes Xitter under its wings, thus likely creating a true 'X'. (As I predicted might happen.)

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This isn’t the end of art. It may indeed be the dawn of a new age for art. And that may not devalue the human-created art as is the clear fear right now. In fact, it may even elevate it.

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A filter. They invented a filter.

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Here's to the crazy ones... ⌾ The Inner Ring ⌾

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