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Clearly Blake needs to recognize she isn’t funny … and most certainly an unthinking follower.

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‘Throwaway’ line from ’Cluetrain’ .. 25 years old this year.

OK - enough with this procrastination … Keynote is calling me - but first - some quick hits - yes I know the small pebbles and big rocks story.

Apparently we do have similar problems to Russia …

The country needs those central Asians who do many of the jobs Russians do not want for salaries Russians will not accept, and thuggish repression might well persuade many to leave.

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Reading all the various commentaries around DoJ v 🍎, I am finding ‘heads on Threads’ making good arguments.

Walt Mossberg for one.

Ben Thompson for another.

🔗 Microsoft’s Brazen AI Inflection

What Om does not touch on is the issue of ‘acquisition’.

To this bear (and others), what also seems to have happened is that Microsoft has all but bought the company. but actually didn’t.

Why not just buy it?

Well because then you need permission from the Feds - if not the EU, which takes time and even then might not happen (remember Figma), and certainly in the AI space close scrutiny is happening.

Ok - not that close - but you know what I mean.

Watch this (tech bypassing pesky things like delays and rules and law and .. to accelerate and ‘avoid’ scrutiny) happen more and more in other places.

I’m alwayss amazed how there are so many calendar app on the App Store .. how manyy calendar apps does one person need?

Three apparently.

(It is a video if you want to join me in ‘throwback 90s)

…STILL …

The ability to apply a filter to users to follow .. to separate out microblog accounts from the fediverse.

Is it so hard?

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A few pundits have been remarking that part of the story behind the Apple v Feds is that Apple won’t let Super Apps onto their phone like they do in China.

Putting aside the obvious “well that’s good then”, I am bound to ask why Apple controlling all my life and having to work out how to keep me there is any worse than some dubious super app seeking to do the same, and whatever phone I use - there it is. Yes - convenient - but is that what we want?

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