Tagged “business”

bad month for podcast apps

Netflix’s ostensible goal is to win the Moment of Truth: when you’re home from work and too tired to do anything but vegetate, are they your first choice?

seems like a lot more emphasis on the jar than the contents.

Super-soaker and NERF gun inventor now working on some kind of solid-state power.

From 1999, on the Netscape-Microsoft browser wars.

I had thought there was some large technical/scaling challenge (there still are), but much of this reads like plain old stretching too thin.

Rise of holograms, deepfakes, so more ongoing fame for existing artists. Decline of labels, consolidation of the remaining power/profit in that business to fewer and fewer people.

The “official industry figures” will show that the music business is growing, but these numbers will be highly misleading. A huge portion of “music profits” will actually go to tech companies (Apple, Google, etc.), who have no interest in reinvesting this cash into the music ecosystem. For example, Spotify will take the cash flow generated by music and use it to acquire rights to podcasts, etc.—and, in general, the music culture will be starved of funds because it now must pay the bills for other businesses

Constrain the infinite vastness of space to the bridge of a single ship