Yep, definitely. And in a crowded field, they’re in trouble.

So Apple’s future will be a boring one, abiet it will be a struggle for them in terms of services.

And the rest of the world too eventually since it'll spread to the US and other nations…

"I can say that Article 13 will be way worse for the internet than SOPA ever would have been." [techdirt.com]

Once again, this is a huge precedent (obviously for the worse) if the EU Copyright Directive adopts into law. Everyone should pay attention.

Yep, although I'm very much capable, others aren't as lucky.

Awesome!

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The main problem with Google's game streaming service is that how terrible most US ISPs are that they're going to choke on the bandwidth of this especially if its a ISP that is thinking about going to compete with this (Comcast and Verizon great examples).

Announcement link [9to5google.com]

Karl Bode's Motherboard piece on the ISP problem: [motherboard.vice.com]

Day so far:

1) Visited a client who has a smart lightbulb (Yikes!)

2) Got some group coding in for the week.

3) Got CSS spreadsheets organized, although it felt like Morse.

Or maybe they thought it wasn't worth covering costs of backing up or preserving, which I would think.

Taking away useful features of an app and being disrespectful to their users always aren't a good combination. Maybe they can make things right but time is running out.

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