Archive for the 'Apple' Category


The Apple Letter

https://on.wsj.com/32jk1Iq The people on Spotify are much more active listeners. The debate has been about money when it should always be about reach, have enough reach and there’s plenty of money. In other words, the public has spoken, if you love music, if you just can’t get enough of it, you’re on Spotify. Never mind […]

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 […]