Linked List: October 12, 2015

Monday, 12 October 2015

The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election ★: Interesting New York Times investigation and visualization on the 158 families who’ve donated about half the money so far for 2016’s presidential election. Most interesting to me: the overwhelming majority of them made their own fortunes (as opposed to inheriting them).
‘We Knew We Were Snowing Them the Entire Time!’ ★: Steven Levy tells the tale of the HP-Apple iPod “alliance”:

In short, Fiorina’s “good friend” Steve Jobs blithely mugged her and HP’s shareholders. By getting Fiorina to adopt the iPod as HP’s music player, Jobs had effectively gotten his software installed on millions of computers for free, stifled his main competitor, and gotten a company that prided itself on invention to declare that Apple was a superior inventor. And he lost nothing, except the few minutes it took him to call Carly Fiorina and say he was sorry she got canned.