David Pierce

Group chats are great, and are replacing social media for a lot of people. They also, this smart Guardian piece points out, flood your life with notifications and raise the stakes for reading them all. So what do you do? And can you ever get out? (This is a good companion to last week’s WSJ piece about texting being the new email, too.)

He loves Twitter. He hates Twitter. He’s been mad about his reply-bots since at least 2018. The Washington Post did a good deep dive through Musk’s tweets to figure out what he actually thinks about the platform — which might matter during next month’s trial — and the answer is predictably all over the place. Now I want to know what he really thinks about crypto.

Yes, Zoom is probably smart to go all-in on chat, and try to keep more people in its ecosystem all day. (Also, sorry, changing the name from Zoom Chat to Zoom Teams Chat isn’t going to accomplish... anything.) But I can’t help but be bummed to see Slack, Teams, Zoom and even Google Workspace all basically turning into the same overbearing all-in-one work app. Are there just no more new ideas in this space?

I still can’t say “Dynamic Island” with a straight face. But if Parker’s extremely cool menu bar-style iPad Pro concepts come true — and finally get Apple to move the iPad camera to the center of the device where it belongs — I’ll happily pack my things and declare permanent residency on Dynamic Island.

It’s spending more than $13 billion on Thursday Night Football, with games kicking off next week. This is a good read about all the work that required, like, how do you get Prime Video in bars? Also, Amazon has some... interesting ideas about how to broadcast games: