Nilay Patel

The company, which sold wireless home broadband to apartment residents using neat little mmWave antennas, recently laid off half its employees. Now it’s looking to sell itself. Turns out competing with America’s entrenched, monopolistic ISPs is incredibly difficult. :(

to “Hell.” Welcome, my man.

If $8/month gives everyone priority on the platform, does anyone have priority?

And Amazon Music is a “distant third.” That’s according to Amazon Music VP Steve Boom, who explained how the modern steaming business works and why Prime Music now includes 100m tracks (in shuffle mode) for free on this week’s Decoder podcast.

She’s the first artist to own all top 10 slots, according to the mag. (There’s a PhD thesis in how this list diverges from the actual track listing of Midnights. Or at least a really intense Tumblr post.)

Thinking a lot about these former Elon Musk superfans who say they’re over it now — the common thread is that the more Elon talks, the more he breaks the myth.

Darin Fisher has worked on every browser from Netscape to Firefox to Chrome. Now he’s at The Browser Company working on the Arc browser, and he said some blunt things to David Pierce about the reality of Chrome:

“...because rockets don’t talk back.”