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While it's possible to understand Apple's motivations behind its decision to enable on-device scanning, the company had a better way to satisfy its societal obligations while preserving user privacy.

The Metaverse of Snow Crash is not a good analogy for the future, as the Internet breaks down into Stephenson's dystopia

Instagram's shift away from being a photo-sharing app is very much inline with the service's continuous evolution.

The Windows 11 announcement was fun and interesting, but there is a reason that Windows is no longer the center of Microsoft's business.

Marc Andreessen has changed his tone over the past year; there is a cynical interpretation, but I think the shift is justified.

A package of new proposed laws for regulating tech companies are in part a negotiating ploy, but also an indicator of change.

WWDC highlighted how Apple's differentiation is based on integration; the company ought not risk that differentiation for exploitive App Store policies.

Seven years ago, when I initially launched the paid Daily Update, there weren’t really any tools designed for independent subscription businesses; my solution has incorporated a number of disparate services tied together, and while new companies have been formed around both paid newsletters and paid podcasts, no one has created a service for a site […]

There are all kinds of arguments to make about the App Store, and nearly all of them are good ones; that's why the best solution can only come from Apple.

Distribution on the Internet is free; what matters is controlling demand. AT&T and Verizon didn't understand the distinction.

Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to become a major player in an Internet 3.0 world, where politics matter more than economics.

More and more opportunities on the web come from market marking, not for advertisers, but for real goods and services paid for with real money.

Apple's new Podcast Subscription service is what the App Store should be: a great Apple experience competing for customers.

In July 2014 Taylor Swift wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal entitled, For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story: There are many (many) people who predict the downfall of music sales and the irrelevancy of the album as an economic entity. I am not one of them. In my opinion, the value of an al...

There has been a bit of controversy around Substack over the last week; I’m not going to get into the specifics of various accusations made about various individuals, or their responses; I do though, think that there are a few fundamental issues about the Substack model specifically, and the shift to sovereign write...

Truly unlocking competition in tech means increasing interoperability; an absolutist approach to privacy is doing the exact opposite.

Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.

Information on the Internet is conveyed by memes, which can be anything and everything. The real world impacts are only now being understood.

Jeff Bezos is retiring, and will go down as one of the great CEO's in tech history, in part because of how he transformed Amazon into a tech company in every respect.

Journalism cannot afford to be divorced from business realities; that applies to Australia, the New York Times, and even Andreessen Horowitz.