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[Citation Needed]

James Damore's citations do not support the conclusions he is drawing from them. This makes his findings and proposals for remedies worthless. He has some good ideas, but his presenting them amid so many simply wrong claims means they won't be valued as they should.

ESPN NOW

Live sports has been viewed as the final frontier in cord cutting. We may now be approaching the tipping point in VODs usurpation of broadcast television.

Spin the Cylinder?

The cleverness of the 2013 Mac Pro's design (inadvertently?) became more important than performance headroom.

Device as Sculpture

Jony Ive's design aesthetic is fundamentally sculptural, not ergonomic: he makes objects to be beheld, not to be held. Following the passing of Steve Jobs in 2011, there really wasn't anyone at the company to rein him in.

The Beginning of the End of "Apps"

When Siri can replace much of an app's interface, and do so for the multiple apps a user may need to complete a complex task, it raises the question of whether we even need "apps" at all.

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