All In Podcast

Good discussion on inflation. Check it out.

Google and Jio seek to convert 450m Indians into smartphone users

Google and Mukesh Ambani’s Jio are hoping to crack one of the world’s largest untapped smartphone markets, launching a device they hope will be cheap enough to convert 450m Indians on “dumb” handsets into smartphone users.

“Jio has been good at two things. One is mega-launches. Secondly, breaking the price [barrier],” said Neha Singh, founder of data provider Tracxn in Bangalore.

Financial Times

Google couldn’t have found a better partner than Jio.

Jay Leno: Elon Musk is the reason Tesla is the most valuable car company in the world:

Tesla’s market cap hit $1 trillion earlier this week, sending Musk’s net worth skyrocketing near $300 billion after Hertz announced it will be ordering 100,000 vehicles to build out its electric vehicle rental fleet.

“Can you imagine any of the major automobile manufacturers saying ‘Let’s call this high performance feature ‘Plaid’ like they did in ‘Spaceballs’ as a joke?‘” Leno says, referring to Tesla’s most high-powered vehicle. “You’d be fired or thrown out of the office. But when you own the company? Well, my car says ‘Plaid’ on the back of it.” (In the 1987 movie “Spaceballs,” spacecraft accelerate from light- to ridiculous- then ludicrous-speed and finally into “plaid.”)

Musk’s ability to influence design choices, such as the new steering wheel shape on its Model S cars, allow Tesla to stand out from the competition “because it’s one person’s idea of what it should be.”

Musk’s ability to influence design choices, such as the new steering wheel shape on its Model S cars, allow Tesla to stand out from the competition “because it’s one person’s idea of what it should be.”

CNBC

100% agree with Leno.

Apple’s record quarter came “despite larger than expected supply constraints,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook. “We estimate these constraints had around a $6 billion revenue dollar impact, driven primarily by industry-wide silicon shortages and COVID related manufacturing disruptions.”

Six. Billion. Dollars. That’s cash that Apple’s customers slapped on the table in the last three months, saying “shut up and take my money“… and were denied. Because Apple just didn’t have the products available to sell. That record $83.4 billion quarter should’ve been a record $89.4 billion quarter, but for all the woes in the international supply chain. And here’s the scarier part: it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

Mac World

This is ridiculuous.

People wanted to give 6 Billion Dollars to Apple that it could not take.
There is no Laxmi Pooja done at Apple Park but Goddess Laxmi certainly has her full blessings on this company.

Just amazing.

“Everything you do at 50, you can do at 60 and even at 70,” Moore said. “But at some point, daily living might be easier or better if you don’t have to cook for yourself, or it might be easier or better if you can get some help with bathing or dressing or transportation.”

SF Chronicle

27k/month! I can’t even imagine.

Apple CEO Tim Cook earlier on Friday announced that the company doubled its business in India, but does this indicate that iPhones have now become favourites in the country? It actually is because just hours later, we have numbers from a market research firm that says Apple now has a 44 per cent share in the premium phone market.

India Today

On Clubhouse app, I keep asking those who live in India that how many people you see with iPhones. And mostly the reply is its all Android. Unless I meet someone who lives in affluent neighborhoods of Mumbai and Delhi, where the reply is, “all my friends and family have iPhones”

I went to a high end night club in Pune and there were 500 people on dance floor and instead of enjoying the music and my beer, I like a nerd was counting how many people on dance floor have iPhons. around 30% had iPhones.

So iPhone Vs Android is not a feature issue. It’s a money issue. As Indian economy grows and Indians become rich, it is clear iPhones will sell more. I don’t see it any other way.

Very good review from The Verge.

Meme-based cryptocurrency Shiba Inu soared more than 45% over the last 24 hours, muscling its way into the top 10 largest digital tokens by market capitalization.

NY Post

This is madness!

The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. However, by using various new standardized web technologies, Adobe has now brought a public beta of Photoshop to the web.

web.dev

Photoshop on Web looks like response to popularity and success of Canva.

To reflect who we are and the future we hope to build, I’m proud to share that our company is now Meta.

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