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No sooner did the first iPhone go on sale in 2007 than hackers found ways of devising unauthorized apps to download on to it. Apple eventually bowed to public pressure by allowing them to be sold on its Apps Store, keeping a hefty percentage of the proceeds as a quid pro quo. Soon, it was selling over a billion apps every month, mostly the work of ... See more
Alice Rawsthorn • Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
The tech industry got a speed-up with the Intel 4004 processor, launched in 1972. This was contemporaneous with American right-leaning economists launching a sustained attack on the regulatory state. The growth of the early PC industry in the late seventies and early eighties coincided with the supply-side thinking of Reagan and Thatcher. As an ind... See more
Azeem Azhar • Exponential View by Azeem Azhar | Substack
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Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
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Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kessel went on a fact-finding mission to Silicon Valley, meeting with hardware experts from Apple and Palm and with executives from the famed industrial design firm Ideo.
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Intelligence Revolution
Jamin Ballcloudedjudgement.substack.com
Apple’s P-type loonshots, of course, transformed their industries: the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. But what ultimately made them so successful, aside from excellence in design and marketing (most, although not all, of the technologies inside had been invented by others), was an underlying S-type loonshot. It was a strategy that had been rejecte
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