Winter Rant

… the final list. Too much went down in 2023. 🤯

• Open AI starts LLM arms race.
• New Bing is born.
• Google botches AI demo videos.
• Tech layoffs hit hard.
• Outlook for Mac is now free on AppStore. (… this is a point of personal privilege.)
• SVB melts down.
• Reddit clamps down on API usage.
• Popular Subreddits stage blackouts; to no effect.
• Reddit’s own mobile apps still basic.
• “We have no moat” becomes a rallying cry for open source LLM advocates.
• Twitter dies.
• Threads is born.
• Zero-interest phenomena in tech are revealed.
• Apple complies w/ EU on USB-C, alt-appstores, RCS.
• Apple Vision Pro gives Meta some hope.
• Microsoft changes Copilot icon.
• Activision deal runs into regulatory blizzards in UK.
• Meta partners with RayBan.
• New Bing dies.
• Microsoft Copilot is live.
• Open AI implodes? Yes, and no.
• AirBnB, Snap still standing.
• Humane Pin is a hardware wrapper around ChatGPT.
• Cybertruck is big. Ships 10 units.
• Retired politician looking for an AI gig.
• Beeper mini is a paid product.
• Google embellished Gemini demo.
• Apple kills Beeper Mini (at least once).
• Threads flirts with Tags, Fediverse and EU.
• Google loses to Epic in Play store lawsuit.
• Adobe fined by FTC for naughty subscription fees practices.
• Adobe drops Figma.
• Apple pulls Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 (only to unpause it).
• Flipboard pivots to Fediverse.
• NASA beams a UHD cat video from 19milion miles in deep space.
• NYT sues OpenAI

– vijay, nursing a case of sniffles on New Year’s Eve.