Artificial Intelligence
It might have just turned out that the relative GPU processing poverty of DeepSeek was the critical ingredient to make them more creative and clever, necessity being the mother of invention and all. Jeffrey Emanuel, in the long and very thoughtful Short Case for Nvidia Stock
Apple
Apple always seems to be “behind” in innovative technology when in fact it is already applying it in purpose-driven ways that are less about tech demos and more about customer delight. Matthew Panzarino reviewing iPhone 7
Google is extremely well-placed for where they think the puck is going. Marco Arment, comparing Apple to the competition on matters of AI & Big Data
Numbers are important. Number of users is important. So are lots of other things. Different services create value in different ways. Trust your gut as much (or more) than the numbers. Figure out what matters and build something good. Twitter & Medium founder Ev Williams, in his Medium post A
He transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world. President Barack Obama, on the Passing of Steve Jobs
Apple
Apple benefits Google by creating user experience innovations which Google can rapidly copy. Google benefits Apple by […] crippling the profitability (and thus the ability to innovate) of Apple’s direct competitors. Horace Dediu, Apple (biased?) analyst, on his view of Google and Apple as mobile co-belligerents
Masturbatory novelty is not a business strategy. Jeffrey Zeldman argues why publishers are doing the wrong thing, and use iPad as the new Flash
If I’d have asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!’ Henry Ford, as cited by Steve Jobs, paraphrased in Invincible Apple: 10 Lessons From the Coolest Company Anywhere
Apple
don’t forget how fortunate we are to have such a ruthlessly innovative company at the helm of the ship at this point in time. Either get on it or just pick another boat and draft in its wake. Mike Industries, A good problem to have
Innovation
it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future. Clay Shirky, The Collapse of Complex Business Models (Wayback Machine)
Open
I can’t speak to the hardware and “architecture” issues, but I despise the idea of “user interface” patents. John Gruber, Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement
Apple
I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed. Steve Jobs, CEO Apple, interviewed by Rolling Stone in