Quick thoughts on Apple’s announcements at WWDC
1. News
Here are three strong reactions to WWDC, all understood as a culmination of recent technology trends, and all of which, taken together, make a kind of story.
Twitter Has Held Talks to Acquire FlipboardKara Swisher, recode.net
Those discussions, which have been pushed by Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, have been taking place…
Charter buying Time Warner Cable looks like a done deal. But what about the other main opponent to Comcast buying out TWC?
Netflix has nothing to say about America’s latest big cable merger — John McDuling, qz.com, today
Good short post on Apple’s TV plans by MG Siegler, where he observes, among other things, that an iPad is as much a television as anything else:
At the same time, a whole generation is now growing up used to watching television content on their phones and/or tablets. Or, at the very least, their laptops. For all intents and…
Warren Ellis’s “Morning, Computer” is essential reading, blogging how it should be done: sharp but casual, critical but epiphanic. Here’s a chunk from the latest, “The Future is a Confidence Trick,” on failures in the prediction industry:
COUNTDOWN TO ADMAGEDDON
No time at the moment to comment at length, but Frédéric Filloux’s Monday Note, Ad Blocks’ Doomsday Scenarios is worth reading.
For publishers, ad blockers are the elephant in the room: Everybody sees them, no…
(Background: Netflix Profits Slide 50% as Streaming Growth Lags)
