The Netflix decade: How one company changed the way we watch TV

av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 24, 2019 | Lästips

In the not-so-distant past, TV viewers were forced to wait a week for the next installment of their favorite shows, parceled out by networks in half-hour or hour-long increments.

Fast forward to 2019, when media and tech companies are subverting that schedule and the majority of viewers using U.S. TV streaming services watch an average of four hours of content in one sitting, according to Deloitte.

To understand how we got here, look at Netflix (NFLX.O).

At the start of the decade, binge watching involved VHS tapes, DVD box sets or long nights glued to a DVR. TV cable hits included “Homeland” and “The Wire” – hour-long dramas with complicated plot lines that needed to be watched sequentially.

Källa: The Netflix decade: How one company changed the way we watch TV

’I am going to say quiet words in your face just like I did with Trump’: a conversation with the Zuckerbot

av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 22, 2019 | Lästips

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg won’t talk to the Guardian. So we fed everything he says into an algorithm, built a Zuckerbot, and interviewed it.

Mark Zuckerberg is press shy. The 35-year-old billionaire’s innate sense of swagger (“I’m CEO … bitch”) has failed to translate into confident public speaking. But after the Cambridge Analytica scandal precipitated a massive crisis of trust for the company, Zuckerberg was forced to step out of his comfort zone and start answering for himself and his company.

Källa: ’I am going to say quiet words in your face just like I did with Trump’: a conversation with the Zuckerbot

Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 20, 2019 | Lästips

What we learned from the spy in your pocket.

VERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The Times Privacy Project obtained one such file, by far the largest and most sensitive ever to be reviewed by journalists. It holds more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans as they moved through several major cities, including Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Källa: Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

Mossberg: Tim Cook’s Apple had a great decade but no new blockbusters

av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 19, 2019 | Lästips

How How do you replace a legend like Steve Jobs and, at the same time, adapt to the slow decline of your most important, most iconic product? Those were the twin challenges Apple faced in the 2010s. Under CEO Tim Cook, the company has found some answers and flourished financially, but it hasn’t been without a few wrong turns and big changes to the very nature of its business.

In the past decade, Apple has grown huge. Its fiscal 2019 revenues were six times the size of revenues in fiscal 2009. Its new headquarters building is larger than the Pentagon. Each of its five business segments would be a Fortune 500 company on its own.

But what about its products? Its culture?

Källa: Mossberg: Tim Cook’s Apple had a great decade but no new blockbusters

Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World

av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 16, 2019 | Lästips

Källa: Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World