Episode 216: I would give it 5 stars if you still did stars.

How do we fix Privacy? How do you compete with AWS? Is the iPad a hit product? We discuss all this and Matt Ray teaches us how to decouple applications from the operating system. Plus, we offer more advice about tacos.

Relevant to your interests

• Privacy
  • “Software ate the world, so all the world’s problems get expressed in software”
  • Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker
  • Scroll makes hundreds of websites ad-free for $5 per month
  • Avast antivirus harvested user data, then sold to Google, Microsoft
• Disruption
  • Clayton Christensen, Guru of ‘Disruptive Innovation,’ Dies at 67
  • How to Compete With AWS
  • After Kubernetes’ Victory, Its Former Rivals Change Tack
  • Slack Stock Could Be One of the Biggest Opportunities in Software, Analyst Says
  • Acquired | WhatsApp
• Chef Habitat Gains a Foothold in the Enterprise, Streamlines Packaging
• Google
  • Google aims to unify its workplace tools and messaging apps into one service
  • Google will shut down App Maker on January 19, 2021
  • Google spent a record sum rewarding researchers for hacking its products
• Apple
  • The 10th Anniversary of the iPad: A Perspective from the Windows Team
  • The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
  • Apple Holiday Results Top Estimates on Rebounding iPhone Demand
• A new chapter for Kohsuke
• COBOL on Kubernetes - stackconf
• VMware’s vRealize $236M Patent Infringement Loss: 5 Things To Know
• VMware? VM... now where? It's that time of the year again when Dell's virtualization software giant sheds staff
• LastPass is discontinuing its native Mac app and replacing it with a more universal web app

Nonsense

• Google caves on unpopular favicon change in Search and promises to test more designs
• Old Bay hot sauce is here: McCormick launches new way to season wings ahead of Super Bowl
• Internal Monologue vs. Not Everyone Conducts Inner Speech
• Australia slips further in internet speed rankings

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Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • Matt Levine’s Money Stuff Newsletter
  • The Animal Spirits Podcast
  • The Compound YouTube Channel from Josh Brown and Michael Batnick
• Matt:
  • A16Z Podcasts
  • Daniel Suarez’s Freedom, the sequel to Daemon