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OpenAI’s flood of announcements are getting hard to keep up with. A selection — not exhaustive! — from just the last month: The last two announcements just dropped yesterday, and actually bring clarity and coherence to the entire list. In short, OpenAI is making a play to be the Windows of AI. For nearly two decades smartphones, and in particular iOS, have been the touchstones in terms of…

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I think the new iPhones are pretty great. The base iPhone 17 finally gets some key features from the Pro line, including the 120Hz Promotion display (the lack of which stopped me from buying the most beautiful iPhone ever). The iPhone Air, meanwhile, is a marvel of engineering: transforming the necessary but regretful camera bump into an entire module that houses all of the phone’s compute is…

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Unedited notes from

Steven Musielski (The last name is pronounced muh-shell-ski).

I am introducing CEO's of publicly traded companies to tech leaders and to board level introductions.

And introducing them to family offices.

One of my mentors said to ask Chatgpt who I should follow and learn from... The suggestion I was given? Stratechery - By Ben Thompson:

I asked for someone that posts on Technology that I can learn from.

Lesson 1:

I need to ask Chatgpt for someone that writes more often.

Thank you for reading Steven Musielski - unedited mentor notes.

iOS utility feels inversely proportional to the screen size of the device. #stratechery #visionpro #apple #ios #visionos

Ben Thompson with an insight I agree with: iOS utility feels like it’s inversely correlated to screen size. The bigger a screen gets, the more frustrating iOS gets. https://pca.st/episode/fab1d675-ecab-410f-b06b-b6fb8c0e02b7?t=560 This is in today’s Dithering where Ben comes to the conclusion that the current interaction model of the Vision Pro doesn’t lend itself to the work tasks he likes to…

Ben Thompson summarizes the history business models of the most prominent game console makers, as background for discussing Microsoft's ongoing attempt to acquire Activision Blizzard.

As someone who lived through most of this history but spent a lot of it too young to have the perspective to understand it, I found this look fascinating. The shifts in approach play out differently based on interactions with broader market trends in a way that reminds me a lot of competitive players adjusting to a shifting metagame.