Nilay Patel
Excuse me, it’s “really an aftermarket sound solution.”
I’m just trying to imagine the pitch meeting where “surely some Ford electric truck owners want external speakers that make Chevy V8 sounds” got funded to production.
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Google’s Danny Sullivan responds to our piece about the culture of SEO hustlers.
Fair to say Danny does not love Amanda Chicago Lewis’ excellent piece about the web SEO built — and the people who’ve made millions running SEO schemes. (Also important to note that Danny says he is not responding in his professional capacity as a Google employee here!)
Danny calls out an email conversation we had a while ago about indexing quick posts in search while we were redesigning the site; the only thing I’ll say is that I found it very instructive that our ideas about how to make our site more useful ran headfirst into a discussion about what Google would want instead of what our audience would want. And ultimately Google’s guidance was so opaque that we excluded quick posts from the search index rather than accept the traffic risk. (We’re going to let them get indexed soon, though. Yolo.)
Some thoughts about The Verge article on SEO
[Danny Sullivan]
The publisher behind the songwriting copyrights to some of the most popular music ever recorded doesn’t think AI spells doom for the industry.
Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
Questions about Apple’s AI strategy abound.
John Gruber, responding to a Mark Gurman report in Bloomberg about Apple scrambling to catch up in AI:
The anxiety inside Apple is that many people inside do not believe Apple’s own AI/ML team can deliver, and but that the company — if only for privacy reasons — is only going to use what comes from their own AI/ML team.
Hmm. Hmmm.
Apple and AI
[Daring Fireball]
After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you’d think about AI and TikTok — and he has surprising thoughts about balancing free speech with protecting democracy.
Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
Close but not close enough to the Cybertruck wiper.
Lots of you sent over this new TikTok of the Cybertruck after I asked for closeup photos of the wiper on the Vergecast last week — you can see a little bit of evidence for a theory that I’ve heard about it, but not quite enough. Bring me photos of Spider-Man — er, the Cybertruck wiper! Top to bottom! We all know it’s a triangle, people. Show us the blade.
Nilay Patel
I turned off optimized Apple Watch charging in the new watchOS so quickly.
I appreciate Apple’s aggressive attempts to manage battery longevity across its devices, but the new optimized charging algorithm in watchOS 10 consistently left me with a dead watch on my wrist by the end of the day. Anyone else having any luck?
About Optimized Battery Charging on your Apple Watch
[Apple Support]
New York Times journalist Kashmir Hill comes on Decoder to discuss her new book, Your Face Belongs to Us, and what the spread of facial recognition technology means for the future of privacy.
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