Nilay Patel

I talked to Bose CEO Lila Snyder on Decoder this week, and in addition to asking about the limits of Bluetooth and competing with Airpods, I asked if she’s thinking about adding subscription features to headphones. Here’s her answer:

Mercedes has been teasing the 2025 EQG for a minute but Motortrend got to take a ride in a prototype last week, complete with overheated lines like “it is the most complex EV in the world in terms of the code controlling the drivetrain,” which, sure. But also: spinny!

Twitter is an important company with a wildly important app on Apple’s platform — it is a dead certainty that the two companies had a relationship prior to Elon’s arrival. I know this because I’ve asked Twitter’s former head of product about it on Decoder, and he told me they weren’t in the business of skirting platform rules. Whatever communication Elon is claiming Apple sent about Twitter on the App Store was probably part of the regular flow... but Elon fired everyone who knows that. Whoops.

This Elon tweet feels like the run-up to a bigger App Store fight with Apple, but let’s first marvel at how silly it is.

Taboola is best known as one of the two main companies that power the ever-present clickbait chumbox at the bottom of pages all over the web. (The other is Outbrain. Yes, they tried to merge, but the deal fell apart.) Yahoo is best known as Exhibit A in Why Mergers Are Bad. Together, they will confuse and annoy a rapidly-aging audience as part of a 30-year ads deal which, god bless them for assuming anything will last that long.

Rest of World has an excellent feature on the impact giant Chinese nickel operations have had in Indonesia, where the locals have seen a surge in respiratory infections and their villages overrun by conveyor belts for the coal power plants that run the mines.

I don’t think the Flopico ever shipped but my god. We used to be civilized.

Real ones know — I used to leave iTunes playlists with my favorite artists on loop when I went to class in college to make sure the “right” music got scrobbled.

Musk posted an image from his late-night Twitter “code review” and… well, at least we got this very funny Reddit thread out of it.