Episode 356: They should have consulted us

This week we discuss palace intrigue at Apple. the death of passwords and Twilio’s valuation. Plus, Matt explains how to resurrect a dead MacBook Pro…

Rundown

• How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple
• Passwords
  • Apple, Google, and Microsoft team up on passwordless logins
  • Teleport nabs $110M to provide identity-based infrastructure access
  • Listen to Brandon interview Teleport CEO
  • How FIDO Works
  • 1Password 8 for Mac Released With New Design and Features
• Twilio - A Future Essential, Or Overhyped & Just Unprofitable?
• Twilio Announces First Quarter 2022 Results
• Matt Ray on headless Debian network installation works

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• A common mistake of many first-time CTOs or VP of Engineerings:
• Big Tech revenue growth rates.
• Amazon Web Services is now a $74 billion business
• Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight
• Cloudflare has blocked one of the largest DDoS attacks of all time
• Actual is going open-source
• Reality Check: Twitter Actually Was Already Doing Most Of The Things Musk Claims He Wants The Company To Do (But Better)
• Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads
• Amazon has bold ambitions to take on SpaceX in the satellite internet business
• Netlix from Tech Company to Media Company in one chart
• Telegram "Premium" subscription is showing up in beta builds of the app
• Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates
• Inside the Growing Discontent Behind Nintendo’s Fun Facade
• Graphite turned an internal side project into $20M Series A
• Stanford University will receive a record $1.1 billion gift from the venture capitalist John Doer
• Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives
• Google Makes $100,000 Worth of Tech Training Free to Every U.S. Business
• Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com
• Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures
• Google Cloud and SAP launch a native integration between Workspace and S/4HANA Cloud
• Cloud spending is hard to control. Cloud providers only do so much to help.
• Pack your bags! This is your invite to SpotifyIsland
• Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com

Nonsense

• AOC and Elon
• Sneakers, elastic pants: People alter office wear amid COVID

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