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• cat << EOF > David Pierce summarises the complaints about Apple

  David Pierce repeats the complaints from makers about Apple in a recent Vergecast episode.

  It’s is actually worse than it was before. You’ve made our lives harder in the name of pretending to make our lives easier

  He also summarizes the situation quite succinctly:

  Apple keeps claiming it’s trying to make things easier for its users, and all it does is make things worse for everybody

  Apple is now embroiled in several very high profile litigations. It's going to be interesting to see how it unfolds, the results affect us all.

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• cat << EOF > The AI layered tech stack

  David Sachs outlined how he thinks about the bigger picture of the AI tech stack on the most recent All-In Podcast (48:43). I think it's a very useful mental model so I have reproduced it here so I have something to link to from other articles I write.

  1. Chips, silicone, Nvidia
  2. Foundation models, open AI, open source models etc
  3. Infrastructure, developer tools, vector databases
  4. Applications

  Talking about layers is pretty popular at the minute.

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• Apple has been facing off against EU regulators recently. One of their complaints was about how Apple treats super apps. If you take the idea of mobile super apps to the extreme, don't super apps eventually become app stores?

  At what point then does the OG app store require the app to actually become an app store? #

• Glassy food and bad water - I finished the second lot of antibiotics for my lung infection Monday morning. I'm feeling mostly quite good today, not much coughing, hardly any flem. Hopefully it will last this time and I'll be well again.

  The world continues to make things difficult. Found small glass pieces in my breakfast this morning. Examined the pieces using a magnifying glass, and managed to crack the small piece into two but I had to use a metal cup. It was definitely glass. This evening a large bottle of water I bought in a shop, which was sealed and looked totally new, contained water that tasted very strange.

  It's been attempted escallations everywhere I've gone today too. Everyone is on the war path. I've managed to walk around all these without reacting, giving them a wide birth and plenty of space.

  Hey world, come on, allow me to get well. #

Today’s links:

• New Post: David Pierce summarises the complaints about Apple markjgsmith.com #

• New Post: The AI layered tech stack markjgsmith.com #

• BlackRock Unveils ‘BUIDL’ Tokenized Asset Fund on Ethereum--With $5 Million Buy-In - Blackrock are one of the biggest investors worldwide, with $10 trillion in assets under management. CEO Larry Fink has been making money via tokenization in traditional finance his whole career, being the first to use computers on the trading floor. His move to enable tokenization of real world assets onto blockchains could prove to be very popular. decrypt.co #

• As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate - Companies that use a lot of electricity are setting up shop near plants. www.theregister.com #

• Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare - The article is a bit of a nothing burger, but it links out to the official report, which will no doubt be pretty interesting. How on earth could the British library be taken down for such a long time? It's mindboggling, and it has sort of paralleled my 3 month mysterious illness(es?). Perhaps the British library also found some small bits of glass in it's breakfast, as I did this morning? That really would be a strange coincidence. www.theregister.com #