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Apple is building an Ad (Services) Empire
The highlight for me during the entire earnings call was that Services now account for 33% of Apple’s gross profit and the fastest-growing segment in FY22 - up 14% YoY.
Vandan Desai
Product Management. Builder. Photographer. I find happiness in backlogs & deadlines, jubilation in code and ecstasy behind a camera lens. I pursue the ephemeral and the permanent all around the world.
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Moonwalkers: New options for the commuter
Moonwalkers are show attachments with motorized wheels - like Heelys that you see kids wearing around. But these are for adults and according to the company behind moonwalkers - they boast that it can increase the wearer's walking speeds by 250%. I have lived in Princeton and worked
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GitHub hits $1 Billion ARR
Frederic Lardionis writing for TechCrunch: “We kept GitHub GitHub and it remains this independent entity within Microsoft similar to LinkedIn,” he told me. “I think we did a fantastic job with doing this and kept GitHub in its original form. You don’t see more Microsoft in GitHub.com than
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Apple (still) exploring iPads with larger screens
In my humble opinion, merging the two platforms would simply be a disaster. There is continuity now between your Mac and iPad; and it works amazingly well! That's blurry enough for me.
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The new iCloud experience is here (Public Beta)
It's fast and looks great! Needs more widgets :) https://beta.icloud.com
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Elon Musk's open letter to Advertisers
Dear Twitter Advertisers pic.twitter.com/GMwHmInPAS — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 I also very much believe that advertising, when done right, can delight, entertain and inform you; it can show you a service or product or medical treatment that you never knew existed, but is right for you.
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User Experience (UX) Metrics for Product Managers using RUM
RUM has been around ever since I started my first job (well over 20 years I recon) and the issue I fell is that people still don’t realize how best to utilize RUM.
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Obviously we'll have to comply...
Apple’s Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak (@gregjoz) join @JoannaStern at #WSJTechLive to discuss products, privacy and power at the tech giant https://t.co/fNo2JGwMB4 https://t.co/aGrTlZrUo4 — The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) October 26, 2022 Greg Joswiak (Joz) remarks when asked about EU regulations mandating a USB-C
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Absolutely love these one off data correlations
Cricket is a religion in India. And when Virat (King) Kohli was batting the way he was after a couple of years; everyone stopped and watched. I remember witnessing such moments when Sachin Tendulkar was playing an innings of his life.
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Gas app was able to cut Redis Engine CPU utilization by 80%
Today we cut our Redis Engine CPU Utilization by 80% and survived to live (and grow) another day! We were CPU constrained & maxed out scaling limits for our ElastiCache cluster. We had 2 hours to reduce utilization before our next traffic surge or we were toast. What did we
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Merck pays Moderna $250m for personalized cancer vaccine
Kristin Houser writing for Freethink: A personalized cancer vaccine: Moderna’s cancer vaccine works differently than most vaccines because it’s designed to treat an existing disease rather than prevent it entirely. It’s also personalized for each patient, while other shots are typically mass produced and distributed to the
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New Products from Apple
iPad We didn’t get to see yet another Apple event in October as expected but we did see new product releases. New iPads and AppleTV were announced, and a short video was perfect to digest what was accounted for each new devices that came out. The new iPad is