TechpadinTech News Snap's Terrible Wednesday, and Why I Never Deleted the App Snap's stock got shredded this week after a rough earnings call, right on the heels of Meta's record-setting dividend pop. Some notes on why one of these companies is fine and the other is not. February 7, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News That Senate Hearing Actually Got To Me A quick reaction to Wednesday's Senate hearing on child safety, where Zuckerberg was pushed to turn around and apologize to families in the room, and why that one moment landed differently than the rest of the theater. February 1, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Apple's New EU Rules and the Fifty-Cent Catch Apple's new EU compliance rules include a 50-cent-per-install fee that applies even outside the App Store, plus a quiet decision to kill home screen web apps entirely. January 29, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal I Didn't Preorder the Vision Pro, and I Don't Feel Bad About It Vision Pro preorders opened Friday at $3,499 and sold out fast. I sat at my laptop, cursor hovering over the buy button, and then didn't. January 21, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Rabbit R1 and My Drawer of Dead Gadgets CES just wrapped and everyone's talking about the $199 Rabbit R1. I've got a drawer full of gadgets that promised the same thing, so here's why I'm cautiously optimistic but not buying yet. January 13, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Rabbit R1 Is $199 and I Still Don't Want One CES wrapped up this week and the gadget everyone's buzzing about is a tiny orange box called the Rabbit R1. Im glad its cheap, but Im not convinced its anything more than a really charming demo. January 11, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Week You Couldn't Buy an Apple Watch Apple pulled the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 from shelves for a week over a patent fight with Masimo, right in the middle of holiday shopping. A quick rundown, plus why I'm not that broken up about the blood oxygen sensor. December 30, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Apple Just Pulled Its Own Watches Off The Shelf Days Before Christmas Apple pulled the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 from its online store days before Christmas after losing a patent fight over the blood oxygen sensor, and the timing could not be worse for holiday shoppers. December 22, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Wrapped Season, and My Mom Won't Stop Texting About NameDrop Spotify's new Wrapped format turned a 30-second ritual into a 4-minute one, and my mom needed a phone call to convince her NameDrop wasn't some kind of surveillance plot. December 14, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News That Gemini Demo Video Has Been Bugging Me All Week Googles Gemini launch video looked like real-time magic. A closer read of Googles own blog post makes it a lot less magical, and that gap is the part nobody screenshotted. December 7, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Spotify Wrapped Has an AI DJ Now and I Have Feelings Spotify Wrapped 2023 showed up with an AI DJ reading my stats back to me in a weirdly chipper voice, and I have some complaints, plus grudging respect. December 6, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Label Maker I Didn't Need A late-night Cyber Monday shopping spiral, an unnecessary label maker, and a brief aside on the OpenAI board chaos that just wrapped up. November 27, 2023·3 min read
