‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing "2,400 customer complaints about unintended acceleration and more than 1,500 braking issues – 139 involving emergency braking without cause, and 383 phantom braking events triggered by false collision warnings. More than 1,000 crashes are documented." image
James "Hepcat" Heppell from @Open Web Advocacy asks why Google doesn't put the user's chosen default browser into the "hot seat". Research shows that this increases retention and reduces Gatekeeper dominance. Apple does, and Google Chrome benefits from this on iOS. Can Google commit to doing the same on Android? image
Today is the 2nd DMA Compliance workshop with your good chums at Alphabet. I know how to enjoy myself.
"Before the App Store, the web was a wild west experience. Users never really knew what they were downloading". Yup, no school shooter apps, sanctioned Russian bank apps or ripped-off games get past the in-depth App Store review process.
El Son and I just finished watching the latest Adam Curtis docupolemic "Shifty". It's bombastic, bullshitty and brilliant. The 21st century Guy Debord we didn't know we needed.
I'm so rock n roll, I'm lying on my bed in Amsterdam drinking a cup of tea on a Friday night.