Roundup: The price of an iPhone
Read to the end for a very special PS5
Paris Marx
Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.
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Smartphone innovation is dead, and that’s fine
Stop blaming a lack of competition for a product that’s simply done meaningfully evolving
Roundup: Will generative AI have many long-term benefits?
Read to the end for a fun Clippy meme!
Pavel Durov and Elon Musk are not free speech champions
The actions against Telegram and Twitter/X are about sovereignty, not speech
A critical tech reading list for late 2024
Ten book recommendations to get you through the final months of the year
Roundup: What the OpenAI funding round reveals about tech
Read to the end for a fun Cybertruck documentary
Zuckerberg wants to control the next platform—no matter what it is
The Meta CEO’s embrace of open source is nothing more than an opportunistic move
Roundup: Who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter?
Read to the end for one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard
Sam Altman doesn’t care about you
The OpenAI CEO wants to extend his life by 10 years, but doesn’t care the poor die 15 years earlier than the rich