My friend Alex Goldstein is teaching a class on PR. Good luck to him!

Lots of juicy bits in here as Jay Goldberg 顾忠南 and I discuss architecture battles and how there is a shift (driven by intense competition) away from general-purpose silicon and to purpose-built silicon. Check out The Circuit if you haven't already.

Spreadsheets for the rest of us. This is... pretty awesome: loom.com/share/a9be3893…

39 years ago (in Sports time) we were 6 hours from the Apple Macintosh 1984 commercial. It signaled that the world was about to change.

👏Troy Kotsur #SuperBowl

Object to the pizza used here as an example. Pizza is probably the most balanced of fast feeds with fairly decent nutritional value.

He discusses what he's learned from his blog, and two things stand out for me: "Writing is one of the best forms of learning." So true. I never fully understand a topic until I've written about it.

Archive.org has dpreview.com going back to 1999. I just donated to them to help keep all that information around. The manner of the shutdown ("a limited period after...[April 2023]": dpreview.com/news/590114546…) is a reminder of how important doing that is.

The launch of ChatGPT Plugins is one of the most significant platform offerings ever. Embedding, distribution, utility. And it reminds me of Dan Bricklin ‘s Cornucopia of the Commons essay where the act of using the database adds value to it. bricklin.com/cornucopia.htm

It seems that Apple is "over the bar" on a variety of important "must haves". (One is consistent "no nausea" reports including from multiple females. Also affordable for enough developers.) Maybe they finally got there so it's time to release to developers to innovate. #VisionPro

Did Microsoft stop hardware & OS work after talking to Apple about #VisionPro, but continue all the Office, etc., work? MS reportedly made more (after costs) on each 1984 Mac selling S/W (MultiPlan, Word, etc.) than Apple did the H/W. MS has gesture experience from PenWindows.

The original Apple II required execs to use a keyboard like a (usually female) secretary, have a Sony TV on the desk, and a rainbow ribbon cable. How dorky! With s/w like spreadsheets they outdid their coworkers. Wait for killer apps for #VisionPro. It's worthy of them.

Re: Apple Vision Pro pricing: Back in 1981, my father paid the equivalent of $10,000 in 2023 dollars for a loaded TRS-80 Model III. His employer did foot the bill. But it still reminded me of how pricey the earliest PCs were.

Apple #VisionPro: What happens when you watch something that literally brings tears to your eyes? Are the internals waterproof? Would tears get on cameras or affect eye-tracking? Easy take off/put back on w/pause/repeat-last-10-sec to wipe eyes? (Asking for a friend...)

Sorry to hear this. The computer industry is so young that so many of its pioneering giants have still been with us. But that era is fading away. reuters.com/technology/ado…

Scott Hanselman 🌮 Congrats, Scott. So well-deserved.