Millennials have been accused of killing so many products and industries—taxis, landlines, snail mail—that it’s become a media trope. But millennials are old news. Today, businesses and marketers are desperately anticipating the murderous whims of Gen Z, the demographic born after 1996.
Monthly Archives: August 2018
Why you should use iOS 12’s Do Not Disturb at Bedtime all day long
iOS 12’s best new feature may be Do Not Disturb at Bedtime. That sounds boring, but ask anyone who has been using the beta and they’ll tell you that it rocks.
To See the Future of Competition, Look at Netflix
I’ve been following Netflix since 2005, when I first visited its headquarters in Silicon Valley and interviewed Reed Hastings, its founder and CEO. I don’t think I’ve learned more about strategy, technology, and culture from any other company I’ve studied.
The first company to ever reach $1 trillion in market value was in China and got crushed
Before Apple hit $1 trillion in market value Thursday, there was Chinese oil giant PetroChina, which reached the milestone more than a decade ago. It did not fare too well after that. PetroChina’s market cap hit $1 trillion in 2007 following a successful debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Nov.
Google street view captures man swearing at camera for the entire length of a street
Swearing at a passing Google street view camera is nothing new — plenty of people have done it before, and chances are plenty of people will be doing it for as long as street view is still a thing.
That time in 1994 when Steve Jobs got to use a device like an iPhone
Part 1: It’s funny how some things that hardly seem significant in their day dramatically change our lives. Or, in Steve’s case, the world. For me, it was a phone call from a secretive little company of 22 people called General Magic.
The Bullshit Web
My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time.