There is a big difference between paperbacks and TikTokification:
Paperbacks required authors to spend the same amount of time/effort to create content with a vastly expanded market and distribution mechanism.
TikTok and Insta created N creators to M consumers where N is nearly the same as M. Making the distribution channels bigger but effortless to create content doesn’t magically equate quality paperbacks with short form hummingbird-attention videos.
Being an engineer and coding at this stage/level is just remarkable- sadly this trade craft is missing in most (big?) companies as you get promoted away into oblivion.
On the contrary, Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs were very customer focused - they listened to customers more so than other big tech companies. You could actually have emailed them and gotten a response (in the case of Bezos a legendary ‘?’ forward to the team).
Not sure how apocryphal a tale this is but it does speak volumes to how customer obsessed these companies were.
Jobs responded to email back when he ran a tiny company in an overall much smaller industry with far fewer customers. I'm not sure he was responding so much by the time he had resurrected Apple and the iPhone launched.
This is awesome… but:
On the Web, is Avalonia using Skia to render inside a Skia Canvas?
**insert inception meme here**
Joking aside: this points to MSFT moving away from the whole Mono/Maui investments and into Aspire or whatever they call it. Without MSFT backing this I am not sure if there is much more future left for MAUI (or dotnet on mobile in general).
I wish C++ did some sane things like if I have a const member variable, allow me to initialize it as I wish in my constructor - it's a constructor for crying out loud.
Don't be silly and assume if I assign it multiple times in an if condition it's mutable - it's constructing the object as we speak, so it's still const!!!
C# gets this right among many other things (readonly vs const, init properties, records to allow immutability by default).
And the funny thing is the X thread has lots of genuine comments like 'yeah, just wrap a lambda to ensure const correctness' like that's the okay option here? The language is bad to a point it forces good sane people into seeing weird "clever" patterns all the time in some sort of an highest ELO rating for the cleverest evilest C++ "solution".
I was hoping Carbon was the hail mary for saving C++ from itself. But alas, looks like it might be googlified and reorged to oblivion?
Having said that, I still like C++ as a "constrained C++" language (avoid clever stuff) as it's still pretty good and close to metal.
It does feel like Apple is firing on all cylinders for their core competencies.
Software (iOS26), services (Music/Tv/Cloud/Apple Intelligence) and marketing (just keep screaming Apple Intelligence for 3 months and then scream Liquid Glass) ---- on the other hand seem like they are losing steam or very reactive.
No wonder John Ternus is the widely anticipated to replace Tim Cook (and not Craig).
I wonder how much of the nVidia DGX Spark announcement was meant to precede this M5 announcement by a day or two; M5 MBP has higher performance with a monitor attached and with a (bit) lower price tag.
If you could yank the screen out, it probably evens out :)
I have seen quite a few such announcements from competitors that tend to be so close that I wonder if they have some competitor analysis to precede the Goliath by a few days (like Google vs rest, Apple vs rest etc).
A curious-er question to me would be how did cephalopods (octopuses, cuttlefish) develop sophisticated intelligence a few hundred million years before ‘we’ did separately from us?
And they still are alongside us right now. Which to me is fascinating.
Seriously though this is inevitable as Fuchsia wound down and Android essentially proved its worth running on Windows (which was a nice experiment I guess).
Fuchsia actually continues to receive hundreds of commits per week and is under VERY active development including moving into Android itself (although fuchsia itself remains uncoupled to Android and cna be used in other contexts)
The only android on Windows I know about was the subsystem but that was shackled to the Amazon app store and was killed off when Amazon finally gave up on their app store.
Paperbacks required authors to spend the same amount of time/effort to create content with a vastly expanded market and distribution mechanism.
TikTok and Insta created N creators to M consumers where N is nearly the same as M. Making the distribution channels bigger but effortless to create content doesn’t magically equate quality paperbacks with short form hummingbird-attention videos.
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