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30 of 150Jensen's Affairs • Is His Chinese Mistress a Spy?
Just when you thought the Jensen Huang situation could not get any more crazy – another shoe drops and the picture around that first shoe continues to evolve. Read on for thoughts on...
Nintendo Goes Back to the Zelda Well
'Ocarina of Time' should be the first of many reworks for the Switch 2...
AI’s Ringmaster Loses the Circus
Jensen Huang shoots the AI messenger – himself
Inklings #032 📧
RIP Salon • Where is Windows 12 • RIP Cybertruck • James Bond Betting • RIP Kylo Ren
Apple Leveraging Apps for AI • ChatGPT vs. Google Search
Now that Apple has an actually working Siri, phase two seems like getting "her" to work with your apps – which could save the entire concept of apps. Meanwhile, another space AI is eating into: search – specifically ChatGPT's massive query volume is obviously…
The Reviewers Are Crazy; the iPhone Duo Is Fantastic
Some thoughts on the iPhone Duo...
Apple's Profit & Margins • RIP 'ChatGPT Classic'
Is Apple doomed again? No, but they do have a lot of question marks from a business perspective heading into 2027 – more than in a long time. And John Ternus did little to assuage such concerns in his first earnings call. Meanwhile, OpenAI continues to push al…
Birthday Bots
On turning 45 in the Age of AI...
Inklings #031 📧
Big Tech Stock Rollercoaster • SpaceX + Tesla • AI Spotify • Apple's Bad Memory • Alien: David 3
Apple Mactracks...
On both touch and glowing logos. Which is good. The 'MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display' branding – less so.
Amazon's Apple Strategy • Apple's Touching MacBook Backtrack
Amazon and Apple both held "events" today to unveil new hardware. It's interesting to watch the convergence there – almost like watching the convergence of the MacBook and iPad. Read on for thoughts on...
Profoundly Proactive
The "AI personal assistant" movement feels real this time...
Bee Here Now
Amazon’s quiet, listening AI wearable is also pretty killer?
A Tale of Two iPhones
Well really, two tales of two different dichotomies between devices...
The Race for Bond, James Bond
Jack Lowden, Callum Turner... Josh O'Connor? And maybe Richard Madden? Oh my...
Inklings #030 📧
iPhone Duo Fail • I Saw Everything • Apple & Meta • Amazon's Bee • Netflix Shake Up • OpenAI Spy
The AI Assistant Wars
A chat about the state of AI personal assistants and if this is really the time for them to shine...
Chaos isn't a Pit. Chaos is a Countertop.
Apple's strange new HomeView...
Meta Back at the AI Frontier • Sora as a Startup
Continuing their "we're back" tour, Meta's new 'Wonder' models, built for Muse, put them at the frontier – or so they say. Meanwhile, not back yet, but maybe soonish: Sora?! Say it is so! Read on for thoughts on...
The Box Office Reckoning
No one wants to see 'The Social Reckoning' – at least not in theaters...
A Couple Elephants in the Character.AI Bankruptcy Room
From a $2.7B "hackquisition" to a $20M IP fire sale...
Apple's Long View on 'HomeView'
The name seems in focus, are the use cases?
Twitter is Back. Shhh… Magic Dance!
X is proving to be an internet cockroach...
SIgh
"Super Intelligence" has been converted into silly signaling...
Inklings #029 📧
Spring-Loaded Ternus • Endless Geminis • Mathpocalypse • OpenAI's "Missing" ARR • OK Googlebooks
AI as UI • The Datacenter NIMBY Problem
A tweak this week to the way ChatGPT is surfacing information and letting us interact with it may end up as a subtly bigger deal than their Dots AI assistant. Meanwhile, reading about China's massive data center initiatives is pretty daunting, and honestly dis…
Amazon Comes to Kill the iPad Again
'Alexa Tablets' put out the 'Fire Tablets', finally...
Microsoft Comes to Kill the MacBook Again
Can the 'Surface Laptop Ultra' use AI capabilities and NVIDIA to end the reign of the MacBook Pro? I mean...
Apple's LG Home Partnership • HBO Max/Paramount+ Super App
Apple's would-be 'HomePod Hub' device starts to make a lot more sense if it launches alongside a bunch of other technology products for the home – and the best way to do that, fast, is with a deep partnership with a current player. One which