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Is AI a feature? Steve Jobs would say so: Steve Jobs once tried to buy Dropbox for reportedly a 9 figure sum, but was turned down by the two founders. Jobs met with Drew Houston and his partner, Arash Ferdowsi, for a meeting at Cupertino, and Houston said that no, that they were not interested in selling. Jobs' answer: Jobs smiled warmly …

Tim Cook: Fitts’ law? I don't know him : And why Apple doesn’t give a shit. Basically Fitt’s Law is one of the most important principles of human-computer interaction, which states that bigger targets are easier to hit than smaller ones. And Apple doesn’t give a damn about this because they just threw it out the damn window. Before …

Apple changes everything: New UI, and new UX interactions: Apple has been lately become less boring but not less annoying. For the wrong reasons, they not only decided to update the UI, the “look & feel” of the OS, but they also decided to change the way things work, and honestly I hate it. On top of the visual updates, AKA liquid ass, they …

Apple YTD vs Tesla YTD: The only other large company that has performed worser this year is… the one run by Elon Musk. Tesla is down 15% from the beginning of the year. Time to start buying TSLQ.

On Perplexity vs Cloudflare: On the debate about Perplexity using stealth techniques to crawl websites: Who would you rather believe? A company with decades of experience, or a newcomer trying to catch up?

Apple YTD part deux: The stock has been flat the whole year, and only moved this past week thanks to the US$100 billion investment announcement by the president of the United States. Chart: Year to date performance of Apple (AAPL) stock THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Now let’s zoom out and compare it against the rest of the …

Figma IPO: Figma, the collaborative design app, debuted on July 31st under the ticker FIG. As of today, it (very) quickly went up, and then lost its gains. Its use of AI to create designs is a big deal. A huge deal. It automates and streamlines a lot of the work that user experience designers do, facilitating …

Cotypist - AI writing assistant : Neat little AI tool that helps you compose better messages across all your apps. You start writing something and Cotypist will suggest phrases, sentences, and short paragraphs based on your writing style. It is free while in beta, give it a whirl.

Apple YTD stock performance is no bueno: This year Apple (AAPL) stock value hasn’t been that great for shareholders which bought at the start of the year, barely scratching the price level on February… and — this is the important part —, not regaining ever since. THE COLD HARD TRUTH As of August 1st, Apple stock is down 17% …

Sydney Sweeney has good jeans: Ideas explored: Aeropostale hype OpenAI spending on Oracle’s infrastructure Tesla and Chipotle are down big time Meme stock of the week: Opendoor Upcoming meme stock: Newegg Google enters the vibe coding territory This week, Aeropostale (AEO) ▲ exploded because of some girl wearing jeans in a TV …