M.G. Siegler
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
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Their wordsone of the things that made Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs, was how in command he was of the facts - yes, even those sprinkled with reality distortion dust! - on stage.
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Their wordsIt seems fine to keep coding in a separate area, obviously, but in general, we should have one box per service!
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Their wordsThe great un-bundling of cable was always going to lead to a re-bundling of streaming. It's simply too expensive and too chaotic without a more central hub.
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Our reading
Adding advertising into AI chatbot products carries a high risk of backfiring with users.
Their wordsInjecting ads into the current paradigm with AI chatbots runs a pretty high risk of backfiring.
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Their wordsBut as workflows move more agentic - i.e. you want to use AI to take more actual actions - the advantage quickly shifts towards Meta.
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Their wordsAward shows remain mostly silly and subjective, but they're an interesting directional proxy for power in the various industries
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Their wordsNobody knows for sure. We're in uncharted waters here, and I think even the LLM skeptics would have to say that the technology has taken us far past what many originally thought possible.
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Their wordsI'm not sure they fully understood that it wasn't really about juicing their numbers, but about churn prevention.
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Our reading
Roughly half of the possible outcomes of advanced AI development would be good or great for society.
Their wordsThere is nearly an infinite range of outcomes here between being fine and being dead. Also, many of them - probably half! - have outcomes which end up being good, if not great, for society.
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Their wordsWhile the average overall quality of Apple's shows are higher than those on Netflix or Prime Video, they still don't have the type of 'A+' content that HBO was regularly pumping out at their peak.
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Their wordsBut none can do what Apple does on the software front, reimagining how such a device should be used.
↗Apple Unveils the CEO Handoffspyglass.org 1st of 3 in this piece
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Our reading
Genuine personal enthusiasm for a product is what makes a keynote presentation compelling.
Their wordsI've long argued that this product enthusiasm was the actual key to the Jobs keynotes.
↗Apple Unveils the CEO Handoffspyglass.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIt's certainly an impressive piece of technology, but it was clearly launched far too early, with no large market to find.
↗Apple Unveils the CEO Handoffspyglass.org 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Our reading
AI features that passively listen to and record a user's surroundings will provoke public backlash.
Their wordsBut still! It's sort of wild that Apple is pushing forward with this given the obvious backlash it will garner.
↗The Apple Event Smelled of a Rich Mahoganyspyglass.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Our reading
A product's success depends on hardware and software working together, not hardware alone.
Their wordsIt's not just the hardware. It's the hardware and the software. This is just Apple running their old playbook to perfection.
↗The Apple Event Smelled of a Rich Mahoganyspyglass.org 2nd of 2 in this piece