One way to think about AI, at least in the short term, is that it's a mechanism for automation and adding efficiency, particularly in areas that have so far resisted automation due to domain complexity. Our current Generative AI boom was kicked off with the release of DALL·E, but was supercharged when...
I just spent about 4 hours trying to debug Day One's syncing system. Day One is the journaling app, built primarily for iOS but eventually made its way to the Mac, Android, and web. I've been using it for a full decade, initially to jot my thoughts down as a new...
The browser wars, as we knew them back in the 90s through the 2010s, are largely over: IE won over Netscape, Firefox sprung up to provide a much-needed alternative, then Google came and ate everyone's lunch on the desktop while splitting the difference with Safari on mobile. Every browser—save Firefox—runs on...
Product development around AI is accelerating. Just in March alone: OpenAI launched GPT-4; MidJourney upgraded its art generator to V5; Microsoft announced AI integrations into its Office 365 suite; Google formally launched its Bard AI into beta; Adobe launched its own AI-powered image generation and editing tooling. In some of these cases, it's...
Having been a Mac user now for 14+ years, I've really appreciated the evolution of the operating system over the last 1½ decades, at a time when the desktop has been superseded by...
As of June 1st, Google Photos has formally ended its unlimited—albeit slightly resized and compressed—photo storage, nudging users towards one of their paid storage subscription plans. It's a classic rent-seeking business...
