Archive for the 'Apple' Category


Corporations Push Back Against Voting Laws

I guess corporations really are people. Or at least more powerful than people. And government too while we’re at it. This is a sea change. Used to be government told corporations what to do, and people agitated and protested for change. But people have lost their individual power since the advent of the internet and […]

UnitedMasters/Apple/Alphabet/Andreessen Horowitz

There’s nothing here. Today it was announced that Apple invested $50 million in UnitedMasters. That’s like you or me going to 7-11 and buying a Twinkie. This is how the rich get richer, they invest in a zillion companies and if one becomes successful… Same deal with Alphabet and Andreessen Horowitz. You want chump change, […]

Clubhouse

Is it the new turntable.fm? I was wrong about Instagram and I may be wrong about Clubhouse but I can’t say that I have any use for it, if for no other reason than I don’t want to hear what most people have to say. Put me in the Fran Lebowitz camp, although I am […]

Tesla/Volkswagen

“How Volkswagen’s $50 Billion Plan to Beat Tesla Short-Circuited – Faulty software set back a bid by the world’s largest car maker for electric-vehicle dominance”: https://on.wsj.com/395tffN Will Tesla win in the end? Everybody said it wouldn’t, and most people still believe that the stock is overvalued, but the truth is making an electric car is […]