Lenny Rachitsky
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
16+ min · · Considering every startup confronts this question at some point, I was surprised by how little has been written about it. Particularly anything actionable. So I decided to do my own digging. I spent… · Shared by 799, including Brian Halligan, Florian Graillot, Thomas Power, Brent Beshore, Jonathan Kogan, Ben Tossell, Ryan Hoover, Niti Shree, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Ha Duong, Bri Kimmel, Bryce Roberts, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Version One Ventures, hiten.eth, Chris Messina, Johannes Lenz, Amy Jo Kim, Chris Isak, scott belsky
Benedict Evans
Presentations — Benedict Evans
· Presentations by Benedict Evans: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, The End of the Beginning and Mobile is Eating the world. · Shared by 662, including Mathew Ingram, Ross Dawson, Chris Messina, Sebastien Meunier, Barney Loehnis, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Florian Graillot, Daniel Pink, Rene Ritchie, Ryan Hoover, Paul Kedrosky, Noah Smith, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Tim O'Reilly, Barry Ritholtz, Vala Afshar, Pippa Malmgren, Luke Wroblewski
The New York Times
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
20+ min · · Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is. · Shared by 649, including Nicolas Babin, Auf der Isar gibt es keine Matrosen, nur Flößer., arabist, swissmiss, Gerd Leonhard, Jane, Mark Kaigwa, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, ❤️ Umair, Josep M. Ganyet, Mark Little, BrendanEich, Liliane Ferrari ™, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, John Battelle, Richard Gutjahr, Nick Szabo, Thomas Power, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org
Forge
A Radical Guide to Spending Less Time on Your Phone
10 min · · When I used these strategies, I finally took back my life · Shared by 612, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Liliane Ferrari ™, Thomas Power, Matti Heubner, Dr. Simon A. Rego, Gabriele, Ryan Holiday, Fern, Ami Measel, Mayhem, Just Mayhem., Bryan Kramer - Keynote Speaker, Yvette Dubel, Carl Morris, Annik Burgdorfer-Grolimund, Stephanie A Kowalski, Scott Monty
The Guardian
Internet privacy: the apps that protect you from your apps
8 min · · Worried about the data collected about you? A new generation of startups is making apps to put your privacy settings straight · Shared by 604, including Jonathan Kogan, Johannes Lenz, Mark Kaigwa, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jansnet, Brian Ahier, Jane, Howard Getson, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Rob Go, Oliver Raduner, henrik, Joshua Walker, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Faik Ersoy, Katja Evertz, Luca Like, Josep M. Ganyet, Christian Müller, Matthias Lampe
The Guardian
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
4 min · · Exclusive: investigation suggests Washington Post owner was targeted five months before murder of Jamal Khashoggi · Shared by 423, including John Nosta, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Semil, Mathew Ingram, Steve Faktor, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., massimo mantellini, Ste Davies, Mark Little, Christopher Lauer™, Anna Irrera, Matthias Lampe, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, Azeem Azhar, Joanna J Bryson, Dean Anthony Gratton, Bjorn Larsen, Armin Wolf, Katja Evertz
Fast Company
27+ smartphone apps you should delete before 2020
4 min · · It’s a new decade. Time to get these privacy-invasive, depression-causing, money-sucking apps off your phone for good. · Shared by 421, including Tauno, Gabriele, Guy Kawasaki, Katja Evertz, Fern, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Johannes Lenz, Stephanie A Kowalski
TIME
The 25 Best Products of CES 2020
8 min · · From Samsung's robotic ball companion to radical new kinds of PCs and cars · Shared by 313, including jorge-ferrer, Katja Evertz, Nige Roberts-Willson, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Power, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, rudolph regter
Benedict Evans
The end of the American internet — Benedict Evans
3 min · · For its first two decades, the consumer internet was American - American companies, products, attitudes and laws set the agenda. That’s not so true anymore - there are more smartphones in China than… · Shared by 287, including Neil Hart 💙, Mathew Ingram, Kevin Roberts, Katja Evertz, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Gerd Leonhard, Tim, luis antónio santos, Gabriele, Chris Messina, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Steven Sinofsky, Christian Surchi, Nir Eyal, George M 🇪🇺, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Bill Johnston, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe
Bloomberg
Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work
4 min · · A strange phenomenon has emerged near Amazon.com Inc. delivery stations and Whole Foods stores in the Chicago suburbs: smartphones dangling from trees. Contract delivery drivers are putting them there… · Shared by 230, including Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, Jose Luis Calvo, Mike Butcher, Brooks Rainwater, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Michael (मुकेश), Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Roland Wyss-Aerni 😷, Katja Evertz, Josep M. Ganyet, Paul Roetzer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Michael Seemann, Oliver Reichenstein, Xose Alberte Cea, Frederic Filloux, Mathew Ingram, Howard Getson
Vox
The hidden trackers in your phone, explained
12+ min · · How covert code enables your phone’s apps to spy on you. · Shared by 223, including Liv 😷, blinch, Esther Schindler, Brian Ahier, Mark Kaigwa, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Pleil, Oliver Raduner, Privacy Matters, Kashmir Hill, Shubhankar Adhikari, Christian Surchi
Benedict Evans
What comes after smartphones? — Benedict Evans
4 min · · Computing has always moved forwards in jumps of scale, but smartphones reach everyone on earth, so what’s the next jump? AV and VR? Cloud, machine learning and crypto? Or is that the wrong model to… · Shared by 212, including Gabriele, Lelio Simi, Johannes Dornisch, blinch, Michael Grupe, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Brian Halligan, Scott Brinker
OneZero
The End of App Stores Is Rapidly Approaching
7 min · · Progressive web apps may soon free you from Google Play and the iOS App Store · Shared by 210, including Dominik Grolimund, Michael Duergner, KOstas, Bernhard Huessy, Marc Gasser, Marius Bleuer, Essaadi, fernand0, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Eric Seufert, Malik El Bay 🕊🔰🇲🇦, Niklaus Gerber, Warren Whitlock, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Scott Brinker
Lifehacker
How to Digitally Detox While Still Carrying a Smartphone
2 min · · Most of us want to spend less time staring at screens and more time interacting with the world around us—which is all very well and good until you realize that you can’t navigate that world without a… · Shared by 201, including Thomas Power, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Johannes Lenz
The Guardian
Part human, part machine: is Apple turning us all into cyborgs?
12+ min · · With its iPhones, watches and forthcoming smart glasses, Apple’s gadgets are increasingly becoming extensions of our minds and bodies. It’s the big tech dream – but could it turn into a nightmare? · Shared by 196, including AI, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Brian Ahier, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gabriele, Keerthi G, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gerd Leonhard
The New York Times
Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop
5 min · · Microphones and cameras lurk everywhere. You may want to slip on some privacy armor. · Shared by 193, including Neeraj K Agrawal, Scott Shapiro, The Last Shitposter, John Battelle, Futurity News, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Chris MacDonald, Shoshana Zuboff, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Randy Deutsch, Tiffany Shlain, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Alex Barrera, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, John Hagel, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, John C. Havens (he/him), Marc R Gagné MAPP, Kashmir Hill