Linked List: October 29, 2021

Friday, 29 October 2021

The Talk Show: ‘A Very Large Nap’ 

Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to discuss the products Apple has released this week.

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Ben Thompson Interviews Mark Zuckerberg 

I hate to say it — because (a) I personally so dislike Facebook Meta; and (b) in my role as president of Dithering, I don’t want to concede something so flattering to the mere CEO of Dithering — but this is an excellent interview. I read it — you can listen to it, too, if you prefer — after watching the keynote video, and it changed my mind about the nature of the keynote, to some degree.

Facebook Connect 2021 Keynote 

I actually watched almost all of this. Is it worth 90 minutes of your time? Maybe! I’ll spoil this: the whole thing is just a series of concept videos showing things Facebook Meta wants to build, not things they have built. Longtime readers know how I feel about concept videos. But, to Zuckerberg’s credit, they wear it on their sleeves that these are concepts, not actual products. It’s a statement of intent.