Humanity has undergone 3 major paradigm shifts in transacting. Bartering was the first paradigm shift, allowing humans to trade one good for a different good. The second made trade even easier, allowing all goods to be assigned a value using a standard measurement, i.e. money. The third shift allowed

Parse showed us what the brave new world of serverless development looked like. Before that, using tools like AWS allowed developers to build without managing their own servers. And before that, Joe in dev ops was on call to restart the company server if something went wrong. Parse offered an

Benedict Evans, writing in his newsletter: “Google paid $1.1bn for part of (struggling) HTC’s smartphone team (~2,000 people) plus some non-exclusive IP rights. It remains very unclear how far Google wants to go into making its own phones. Android has lost the greater part of the high-end

This article has been added to no gradient retracks because it no longer represents the views of this publication. Google Maps is better than Apple Maps but as of 2015 guess which one is used 3 times as much on iOS devices. Apple Maps. The power of defaults is extraordinary.

Alex Davies, writing for Wired: “Those old-fashioned companies know a few things about managing and maintaining fleets, skills Silicon Valley upstarts don’t have.” He argues the likes of Avis and Hertz will survive the “Robocar Revolt” because of their ability to manage large fleets. What is there to manage

A solution to Android’s update problem. This isn’t going to be like the failed Update Alliance from 2011. The promise isn’t in words, it’s in code. Devices shipping with Android Oreo must adhere to Project Treble, mandated in the CTS. David Burke called this the biggest