As we become more beholden to companies to keep our smart devices functioning long after purchase date, I propose 3 guidelines to address this imbalance and risk.
Observations
The browser war is over; guess who won?
There is no more browser war. We’ve already traded our data and privacy which yields us unable to fight in the war. Like our music, movies and photos, our browsing has fallen, the powerful internet corporation’s have quietly taken another scalp.
‘Save’ has all but been eliminated on the web; when will it die on the desktop?
We live in a ‘save’ less world online, but the humble desktop has yet to catch up with this, forcing me to think of when to save my process.
Do you still buy e-books as much as you did?
With e-book sales dropping as much as 26% year-on-year, has the shine gone off the kindle?
Amazon will change Whole Foods – but to what?
Could Whole Foods morph into an Amazon’s version of CVS/Walgreens like store? Everything you need under one roof.
FaunaDB – Pay-as-you-Store/Query database
FaunaDB, from the technical team that led the Twitter database team, have come out and announced their offering of a new style of database aimed at the serverless model.
