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wow, they're awesome.

nowadays you get all that suggested content which is driven by your past behavior, acting as a giant amplifier.

to go back to something idlewords is harping about - all of that is possible because of the persistent storage of user data. kill the deep profiles, kill the tracking, only use what the user directly, willingly entered.

in SV speak: utter heresy.

I'd pay serious money for a real cleaning robot though. Not a little disc but something that can navigate stairs, clean higher surfaces. Currently paying humans to do it. They have access to my house, etc.

Once that cleaner robot really exists, imagine the extensions to it. Give it some other sensors and you have a fire alarm and firefighter. Even overall security. Close the doors behind you. Turn off something you forgot.

Rather than put chips in every item and automate everything I'd rather have one big thing to automate my (legacy) house. Easier to upgrade, fix plus I'd have a fully functioning house if the logic fails.

Looking at Japan, they seem to lead in this area. Can't wait.

Whole companies have been built on top of the SFDC stack - Veeva, FinancialForce, Velocity, ServiceMax, CloudCraze, etc. That's how large the ecosystem of force.com is.

SFDC is for sales, marketing and service people. Call Centers use ServiceCloud all over the globe. Amazon, Bank of America, Japan Post, etc all use Salesforce CRM. Practically all big pharma companies use the SFDC stack through Veeva for their field forces. etc etc etc

The enterprise is a big world. All these consumer unicorns are neat, but there is much more to be done.

Does PayPal count? How much relied on the others? I don't know.

Tesla, Solarcity and SpaceX are all on the verge, but not quite there yet.

5 years from now he either has a n=3+ or is known as a massive flameout. but yeah, good shot at being a SJ 2.0.

Yes, not everyone a sexy startup, but stable growing business or just huge, established.

Fully agree on the BART extension, Livermore at least.

books will be written, talks will be held.

and anyone outside tech will continue to look in bewilderment as to what the fuck is going on here.

Key is he was not a one-trick pony. Real data to prove it.

Right now I'd put Bezos in that category with an n=2 (ecommerce, AWS).

To show a counterexample, Brin/Page have an n=1 - ads. Rest is cool tech, but not significant business and yes, I am adding Youtube into the ads business idea.

Same with Zuckerberg, both Instagram and WhatsApp were about adding eyeballs to the same business model - super ideas, but additive. If Facebook Workplace takes off as a paid-for business, he will have n=2.

Apple made him the youngest tech multi-millionaire. Pixar a billionaire. Apple, again, where he built the world's most valuable company and insane profits.

More n than most billionaires, no? Only Buffet has a real n>5.

Never mention the competition, always focus on your shit.

But yeah, we get it - first Facebook Workplace, now MS Team. Slack might get pushed into the feature/addon category faster than it can move into full product. Hard to reach the crazy valuation that way.

If you value your time at zero, then yes, Windows on cheapo devices is your thing. Oh look, another Win10 upgrade, so good.

with apple you get a genius bar at least.

so we're against any notebooks now, as a typical user only ever needs a tablet? great, you've confirmed Apple's strategy across PCs and iPads (incl. the iPad Pro).

they're abandoning the Air and cheaper lines for that very reason - the iPads and iPhones are good enough now.

MPBs are now a testing ground for new inputs (Touchbar) and port unification. Eventually they all add a full touchscreen keyboard, once it can do haptic response (see the iPhone7 home button for a preview). first the Touchbar will become haptic, so we're at least 2 iterations away from it.

Actually more likely that this thing then ends up in the iPad product line, fully destroying the classic PC line. but who knows.

as tech is becoming mainstream, more and more "football coaches" will spout their nonsense, just like in sports.

MS always had concepts flying around, remember the fully automated house, the courier, etc etc etc.

they always stumble on the last mile though - but now they release into production anyway.

we had customers try to deploy surfacebooks and encounter failure rates of more than 40%. turns out MS couldn't get the Intel Drivers straight. oh shucks. innovation.

see for yourself - sit down in any airport lounge in big hubs and observe.

i have seen so many presentations go haywire because windows machines started updates, etc - execs got seriously tired of that shit.

the touchbar, if paired with the Ribbon interface in MS Office, is going after exactly that user group. and they have the money.

see also IBM's press release this week how Macs have far better TCO than windows machines within IBM (50k Macs in an environment of 400k employees).

nuclear energy, supersonic planes, etc. - applying the "disruption" and "agile" method does not work everywhere, to put it mildly.

regions where math levels are higher due to parents pushing for it.

"proper" americans are great in design, marketing and sales. mix the two systems and you get SV.

Nope. That's just more ignorance of what is out there piled on (plus peddling your own stuff aka content marketing).

but a great internet legend, brought up over and over again.

really?

i mean look at it, what is the difference? http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/06/iphone...

but rather than causing a virtual DDOS, now in physical space. shutting down a whole city, for the lulz.

IoT and AV show that the "Facebook" method of software development - move fast, break things, agile/scrum, whatever label is used for non-engineering, will not work for the next stage.

ditto the skills of most young CS grads. most companies can't even secure their shitty email services - but cars is easier?

a whole new supply chain for code needs to be developed, from languages to curriculums. take what the airline industry has been doing and commoditize it, it must be braindead easy to build a secure and robust piece of code for this new world.

if you're running two well-paying full employments with all benefits, you have a sweet gig going.

only possible in the US due to the setup of healthcare and overall taxes, etc.

preferably to the temple.

the US is the only country on earth that ever dropped nuclear weapons on civilians. US generals decided to kill civilians, in retaliation, to achieve pure terror.

the US lost 3.5k civilians on 9/11 and started 2 wars for it.

but all this mil-porn floats around, civilian armchair heroes debate death and destruction with zero empathy or connection to reality.

just utterly inhuman.

This comic book version of history present in the US is disgusting.

The US could have nuked a 100% military installation. The US could have detonated the nukes in Tokyo harbor to scare the shit out of the population.

No.

The US decided to nuke TWO, not one, TWO cities full of civilian human beings.