TechpadinTech News Stage Manager Looks Great. My iPad Doesn't Get It. WWDC brought a genuinely good new multitasking system for iPad called Stage Manager, but Apple locked it to M1 chips only, cutting out iPads that are barely a year old. June 7, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Elon's 40-Hour Ultimatum and the Return-to-Office Panic Musk's leaked email telling Tesla staff to be in the office 40 hours a week or leave is dumb management theater, and it says more about him than about remote work. June 1, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Netflix Layoffs and the End of Infinite Growth Netflix's quiet round of layoffs a couple weeks back says more about the end of the streaming growth era than the bigger headlines this month ever will. May 29, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Phone Number You Gave Twitter "For Security" Was Never Just For Security Twitter just agreed to pay $150 million after the FTC caught it using phone numbers and emails collected for two-factor login as an ad-targeting database. I have complicated feelings, mostly smug ones. May 27, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Tudum Layoffs Tell You More Than the Earnings Call Did Netflix quietly laid off about 150 people this week, mostly from its Tudum fan site, and it says more about the end of the growth era than any earnings call did. May 21, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The iPod Died and Nobody Even Blinked Apple quietly discontinued the iPod touch, the last iPod model, via a one-paragraph press release. A look back at click wheels, FireWire cables, and why nobody seemed to notice. May 19, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Google Made a Watch. They Just Wont Say What It Costs. Google finally announced its own smartwatch at I/O this week, but skipped the price and release date. A few thoughts from someone who has owned every ill-fated smartwatch since the original Pebble. May 13, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Google Made a Watch. I've Seen This Movie Before. Google finally announced a Pixel Watch at I/O this week, and given the graveyard of products I've watched Google bury since 2011, forgive me for not preordering yet. May 12, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Period Tracker Panic of This Week After the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion this week, period-tracking apps like Flo and Clue suddenly became a privacy flashpoint, and the reasons why arent actually new. May 4, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Amazon Lost Money Because of a Truck Company Amazon posted its first quarterly net loss since 2015, but the real culprit wasn't retail — it was a multi-billion dollar markdown on its Rivian stock stake. May 2, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News $54.20 a Share, and Yes, That's the Joke Everyone's talking about Musk buying Twitter for $44 billion, but almost nobody's talking about the fact that the per-share price is a weed joke he's used before, and that should worry Twitter's lawyers more than its users. April 26, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The GitHub OAuth Mess and My Broken Heroku Pipeline GitHub disclosed that stolen OAuth tokens tied to Heroku and Travis-CI let an attacker pull data from dozens of orgs, including npm - and it broke my deploy pipeline in the process. April 18, 2022·3 min read
