Vlad Savov
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Some universal advice: eat more broccoli and change your passwords.
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Yes, Windows, that's exactly what a 2021 smartphone looks like.
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Pixel 7 review: Google took all my Pixel complaints and fixed them: fingerprint reader's perfect, battery life with Tensor chip is epic, performance is buttery smooth, UI is head and shoulders above anything else Android, and the Watch complements it all.
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Every time I watch a Google or Microsoft product event, I'm reminded of how awesome Apple is at this.
Everyone else's stuff feels like an infomercial and I end up turning off. Apple is just better, sharper, pithier.
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Microsoft got Pilot to make their Copilot pen, because some people are easily amused
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Late to learn of the existence of long-neck avocados, which seem to have been dropped in from another, better world. 🤯
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Immigrant CEOs:
- Nvidia
- Qualcomm
- Tesla
- Google
- Microsoft
- AMD
- Adobe
- IBM
The country receiving immigrants is always the biggest beneficiary of it, no matter how much some try to distort the picture.
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Microsoft's Windows lock screen photo curators continue to be awesome.
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iPhone users discovering a standard feature on Android devices is always endearing. 🤭
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Someone at Google should talk to Google about how Google talks to us
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Samsung should do an ad like this.
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Things Elon Musk has misjudged:
- When to buy Bitcoin
- When to buy Twitter
- The "funding secured" tweet
- Complexity of fully autonomous driving
- Time to market for Cybertruck
A non-exhaustive list to remember before you start treating him like your life & investment guru.
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Trust me to nitpick: paperclips come in a wide variety of sizes, so this doesn't help much. No rulers handy?
(Bigger thing: I too am excited to see a Pixel powered by Google's own SOC)
So excited to share our new custom Google Tensor chip, which has been 4 yrs in the making (📎 for scale)! Tensor builds off of our 2 decades of computing experience and it’s our biggest innovation in Pixel to date. Will be on Pixel 6 + Pixel 6 Pro in fall.
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Musk in the summer: Twitter's internal metrics are not to be trusted, place is filthy with bots and fakes.
Musk now: Great metrics, the best!
Twitter added 1.6M daily active users this past week, another all-time high
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Don't hold your breath for Elon Musk creating a Twitter alternative. There are no billion-dollar subsidies for new social networks.
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When Apple launched the iPhone 13, these were the first images it hit people with. Definitely living in the smart camera age.
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Internet has made me too fidgety to just sit and read a book, but it's also given me access to countless audiobooks to listen to on long walks. Grateful to have technology to solve the problems caused by technology.
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After shooting 1,000+ photos with the iPhone 13 Pro over the course of months, I must say I’m underwhelmed.
It’s not a bad camera, but it never positively surprised or wowed me. Oppo, Vivo and of course the Pixel all do a better job with photography.
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Have to mix in something less gloomy on this website, so here's a dose of prettiness
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Ben wants an Android phone, basically. 😄
What I want to see in
#iPhone14Pro
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1. No more overheating and display dimming
2. USB-C + Fast charging (50W+)
3. Touch ID in display
4. Cinematic mode in 4K, Night Mode
5. Cutout instead of the notch
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The iPhone is 14 years old now.
Upon seeing it, Google scrapped its BlackBerry clone development and turned Android into an iPhone clone. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer laughed it off for not having a keyboard.
Conclusion: open-minded cynicism > hubris.
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Since Google launched Pixel phones in 2016, it's sold 27.6 million units. That's 1/10 of Samsung's 2021 sales. In other words, Google would need 60 years to sell as many phones as Samsung sells in one.
Data: IDC
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- make America great again.
- k, will you pay more taxes for that?
- no, I want a tax cut.
- can I spend some money on education so we can improve...
- no, that's communism.
- can I open up immigration so we get talented...
- no.
- so what should we do?
- make America great again
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This city of millions reported just 16 new cases today. Because masks and vaccines work.
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Vivo X70 Pro+ is such a clumsy name for what's turning out to be my favorite camera of the year.
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Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark.
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Instagram: everyone's happier than you
TikTok: everyone's more creative than you
Twitter: everyone's more righteous than you
YouTube: all of the above, so please like and sub, thx
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🧵/ My personal history with Google's Pixels + sample photos from each generation.
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Google every year: THIS TIME we're serious about hardware.
Same company: but we're only releasing the phone in a dozen countries.
End result:
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Every Apple product today: we've improved the front-facing camera because Zoom is your life now.
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Two unnecessary tech trends: self-driving cars and fake meats.
If you don't want to be responsible for controlling the vehicle you travel in, public transport is self-driving already. Improve that.
And tofu is great as it is, stop trying to make it bleed.
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This is what happens when you try to explain metaverses without a rudimentary understanding of tech.
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Future tech:
- Artificial intelligence because we can’t convince people to use their natural one
- EVs because we can’t convince people to ride bikes
- Meat replacements because we can’t convince people to eat tofu
- Virtual worlds because we’ve made the real one intolerable.
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If all cars were this size, we'd live happier, quieter and longer lives.
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Signal added millions of users and Telegram topped the US iPhone download charts, according to Sensor Tower. Nature is healing.
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You can't both (a) spend $100 million to make Joe Rogan the most visible and audible podcaster on your platform and (b) claim he doesn't represent your platform.
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England football team: likable enough.
England football fans: insufferable.
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Nov. 1, 2011 I wrote the first news post on the
@verge
dotcom after it shed the This Is My Next skin.
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Contrasting Apple stories today:
- it’s paying extra $180k bonuses to keep US-based software and hardware engineers from decamping to Meta
- it’s put a Foxconn iPhone plant in India on probation because of substandard living conditions for workers
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Here's who else is buying Twitter now: Qatar, a16z, Binance, Larry Ellison et al.
How it started:
World's richest man is buying Twitter and setting speech free.
How it's going:
World's rich men are buying Twitter and setting it free from public accountability.
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A 2010 smartphone replaced your 1990s camera, camcorder, Walkman, Gameboy, PDA, alarm clock, calendar, calculator, pocket mirror and street map.
A 2020 smartphone was just your 2010 smartphone with more screen, speed and battery and less headphone jack.
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Japan's secret to keeping the virus in check: epic social distancing.
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Silicon Valley types when discussing YOUR location privacy: what do you plebs have to hide?
Same crew when it's THEIR location: literally assassination coordinates.
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Microsoft slashed $20 billion from Sony's market cap in a day.
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Google Photos in 2021: giant, inelegant upsell. Poor company has to make ends meet after years of starving out or buying out competition like Snapseed.
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Google's Action Pan on the Pixel 6 makes it stupidly easy to take these excellent shots. It even works through the window of the moving car, just deeply impressive.
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Between
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Do you ever get the sense that the peak of human civilization is behind us?
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Come for the dystopian "our improvements may hurt you" language, stay for the upside-down smartphone.
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Apple, which doesn't ever discount iPhones in China, is discounting iPhones in China. No one is immune.
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This whole dynamic of mass layoffs while still hiring smells to me like opportunism to fire older and pricier workers and replace them with more exploitable youth. Agism under the guise of economic hardship.
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Ukraine doesn't need an overlord like Putin while Russia could really benefit from a leader like Zelenskyy.
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To my mind, the Pixel isn't Samsung competition, it's Samsung insurance.
Google has no second option for Android vendors in the US: LG quit, HTC phones went extinct and Chinese ones aren't welcome. Sony's failures I can't even explain.
Google's mitigating its vulnerability.
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In the UK, you're only an immigrant until you start winning trophies, then you become "Britain's teenager."
Many of Saturday’s newspaper in the UK are dominated by Emma Raducanu on both the front pages and in the sports section ⬇️⬇️
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Pinning this as a reminder to one day do that Tokyo photo book I've been threatening to.
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@GenelJumalon
Hey, there's a good chunk of the tech community that agrees with you. You don't have to imagine you're against everyone when you're not. The dudes who think they're artists by punching requests into an AI prompter are the minority.
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No flushing toilets, rats in the kitchen, food that poisoned 250 people, dorms where you share rooms with up to 30 people and sleep on the floor. All things workers pay for from a $140 monthly wage, according to Reuters.
Women force change at Indian iPhone plant, sick from bad food, crowded dorms
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Two decades ago, Microsoft couldn’t buy a postage stamp without outrage about its monopoly power. Now it’s spending $69 billion on a games publisher and most of the talk is about that publisher. A remarkable transformation of public image.
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The most important corporation-nation relationship we're not talking about is Google + India. Hundreds of millions of people using Android as their main or only way to access the internet, with YouTube, Chrome, Google Maps etc. as their defaults. And many crore to come.
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All that said, I'm excited for the new Pixel every year, and especially this one. Chinese phones have great cameras but meh software, I'm ready for something that does both to a high standard. Which rules out the iPhone. 😁
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Still amazing to me how quickly and universally Zoom has taken over as the word for internet calls after a decade+ of Skype owning the verb.
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I've been singing the praises of Chinese phone makers this year for making massive improvements with their cameras, but the Pixel still feels like home to me.
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Only just found out that Oculus, Facebook's VR platform and the leader in its category, was also down Monday. The fact nobody noticed or cared to mention it tells you a lot about the state of VR.
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I said it of Tokyo and it's true of Hong Kong too: place feels like a giant movie set
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Middle of Tokyo, group of elder folk doing watercolor painting.
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Amazon went from Jeff Bezos' garage to 1.6m workers and its own air fleet
Apple went from Steve Wozniak hand-wiring PCBs to selling 100m iPhones every 4 months
Bitcoin went from an awkward contrivance you couldn't do much with to an expensive contrivance you can't do much with
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It's bewildering to watch the US invade or sanction whatever country it pleases, yet negotiate very tenderly when it wants to fine Facebook or upset the Apple cart in the slightest of ways.
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