@alexhern:

The lesson Facebook is taking from this can’t be healthy. “People already believe you are several times worse than you actually are, yet they carry on using your products anyway, so frankly, you may as well go hog wild on privacy abuses, because it clearly won’t scare them away”

@alexhern:

The most depressing thing about the widespread belief that Facebook and Instagram spy on users with their mic for advertising is that no-one I know who believes it has actually responded by deleting those apps from their phones

@iamdevloper:

when you visit a site you handed over 6 months ago and the client made some changes themselves

@mgsiegler:

I mean what on earth is going on over at Apple? Not the bend thing, but creating such a page to explain the bend thing.

It’s like if Tim Cook went out of his way for no reason to say Apple’s earnings are off because of so many people replacing their batteries… [twitter.com]

@daringfireball:

Regarding Apple’s Gross Margins: [daringfireball.net]

@Freerunnering:

If you double an object every year, you get bigger than the earth sooner than you’d think.

If you keep trying to “grow” your profits every year. Eventually your target is to have more money than exists on earth.

@Freerunnering:

I don’t worry another tech company will beat Apple. I worry Apple chasing endless growth will implode the company’s ability to make sensible decisions.

You can’t grow endlessly, and Apple is already making more money than some countries!

@DJSnM:

Clever girl. Machine learning system being trained to convert images back and forth figured out how to cheat with steganography. [techcrunch.com]

@ow:

TBH if you want people to upgrade maybe don’t make their phone run slower when it’s old bc they’ll be pissed when they find out