Isn't it interesting that early iPhone strategy made Apple super in on the web but then they figured out how much it paid to be super out on the web, and here we are.
There was a period where Apple was pushing the idea that: Web apps are sufficient for all third party apps and we need to obsessively improve Safari to make that vision possible.
They got pushed to open up the native ecosystem, stumbled into the App Store business model, and the rest is history.
One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
For a while Google's power accumulation was generally aligned with the general blossoming of an open web and lots of new technology.
They've clearly moved to extraction mode as far as the web is concerned, they are quite well positioned to take part in a potential "authorship and copyright and reality doesn't matter much anymore" economy.
It's pretty unclear whose incentives are truly aligned with any of the good stuff we like.
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Isn't it interesting that early iPhone strategy made Apple super in on the web but then they figured out how much it paid to be super out on the web, and here we are.
There was a period where Apple was pushing the idea that: Web apps are sufficient for all third party apps and we need to obsessively improve Safari to make that vision possible.
They got pushed to open up the native ecosystem, stumbled into the App Store business model, and the rest is history.
We get bogged down in lengthy "technical discussions" but at the end of the day, it's about who has the power.
For a while Google's power accumulation was generally aligned with the general blossoming of an open web and lots of new technology.
They've clearly moved to extraction mode as far as the web is concerned, they are quite well positioned to take part in a potential "authorship and copyright and reality doesn't matter much anymore" economy.
It's pretty unclear whose incentives are truly aligned with any of the good stuff we like.