Apple
The iPhone upgrade cycle has stalled. But a new "Local AI" boom is driving massive sales of Mac Studios. This is the bridge to the real super-cycle: when Gemini forces everyone to buy an iPhone 17.
Product Design
Apple Creator Studio just put Adobe on notice. But the real war is coming for Microsoft. By combining native apps with Google’s brain, Apple is building the "Office Killer."
Apple
Your diary is a digital graveyard. With Gemini, it’s about to become an active analyst. The "Quantified Self" is dead; the "Analyzed Self" is here.
Meta
The "news" is slow. The betting markets are instant. And the reason they are so accurate is the one thing we aren't supposed to talk about: Insider Trading. Inspiration: Coffeezilla’s breakdown of how prediction markets are basically unregulated casinos, and watching the GPT-5.2 release
Meta
Google organizes the world's information. Meta connects the world's people. In the AI era, the killer app isn't a chatbot; it's a universal translator. Inspiration: Trying to use Google Translate in Southeast Asia and realizing that while it knows the words, it
Artificial Intelligence
Apple Intelligence is good at privacy, but bad at thinking. To save the iPhone upgrade cycle, Apple just outsourced its brain to Google. (This post, like many others, was originally posted in 2025, before I migrated this site from WordPress to Ghost infrastructure). Inspiration: Realizing that “Siri” is still dumb