David Rubenstein interviewing Randall Stephenson

Really interesting watching the David Rubenstein show this week - if this doesn't excite you about the future nothing will;
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-04-24/the-david-rubenstein-show-at-t-ceo-randall-stephenson-video

Especially the last 3 minutes where Randall talks about the future "thin client mobile display" opportunity eg that the mobile device you are used to carrying, now with "faster/always on" persistent 5G connection, no longer needs the compute and storage power on the device but instead is a client related to a server in the cloud (or application occurring somewhere off device).

Reminds me of this deck I presented in 2006 where I talked about what applications would most benefit from this exact concept......progress moves slowly....but it does move relentlessly and once it does history is almost unrecognizable.

I'm thinking its time to get back into this space, if you are building something that encapsulates this concept-get in touch and lets discuss.


Cheers,
Dean

Shutterstock use of AR

Neat use of Shutterstock and AR.

- https://mobilemarketingmagazine.com/shutterstock-customer-app-view-in-room-augmented-reality-ar

RIP Amazon HQ2-NYC

Going to be interesting to see any of those people protesting generate $27B in taxation revenue from their corporations/startups........


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/opinion/amazon-new-york.html?

Seriously expensive "cable tv bills"

Am I the only person who missed the fact that when Netflix paid $100m to stream re-runs of Friends that it actually opnly extended the contract a little over a year?? Seriously WTF?

Time to short $NFLX

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dont-expect-warnermedia-to-share-friends-or-other-hit-shows-with-netflix-exec-says-2019-02-11

IOT Hot Tub

Buying a hot tub for Christmas? ....is it connected to the internet?


- https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/hackers-in-hot-water-pwning-smart-hot-tubs-yes-really/

Tesla AR patent

How the heck can Tesla secure a patent for what amounts to a “right mouse click” for context in AR
https://next.reality.news/news/tesla-files-patent-for-ar-manufacturing-tool-elon-musk-talks-factory-innovation-weed-sec-fine-60-minutes-0191217/

Talks about obvious…… (admittedly I think its ridiculous any article can be written about patents without quoting the patent number being referred to…..but I know they don’t teach good journalism in schools anymore…).

Unicorns in 2018

I looked at this graphic and thought…..how is Soundhound a unicorn??? As a long time user I cant even understand their business model.

More at

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-16/startup-bubble-derivative-stock-market-bubble