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500ish
500ish.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2015
M.G. Siegler writes short takes on Apple, Facebook, Amazon, podcasting and other tech business news, hosted on Medium.
What HN saysHN links it for Siegler's tech industry commentary, such as on Facebook's brand and iTunes; commenters also note it runs on Medium with a custom domain.
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- 1A Time to Kill iTunes4 people · 30 points · first shared 2017 · 10 comments on HN
- 2The Great Asshole Fallacy2 people · 168 points · first shared 2020 · 165 comments on HN
- 3Apple Won a Battle to Lose the War2 people · 138 points · first shared 2021 · 129 comments on HN
- 4TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock2 people · 130 points · first shared 2020 · 142 comments on HN
- 5Bullet Points of Doom for ESPN2 people · 45 points · first shared 2015 · 54 comments on HN
- 6Amazon Just Invented Borders Books2 people · 8 points · first shared 2017 · 2 comments on HN
- 7The End of Podcasting’s Innocence2 people · 8 points · first shared 2020 · 9 comments on HN
- 8The Great Laptop Stagnation – 500ish Words2 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · 2 comments on HN
- 9Apple’s Precarious and Pivotal 20192 people · 5 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 10Arrogance Peaks in Silicon Valley2 people · 5 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
- 11ShatChat2 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 12Reels Talk2 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 13Facebook Is Too Big, Fail2 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 14Apple’s Universal Control1 people · 250 points · first shared 2022 · 266 comments on HN
- 15The “Facebook Nevers”1 people · 102 points · first shared 2018 · 77 comments on HN
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quincyla · 2017-01-05
For what it's worth, FreeCodeCamp.com has 1/3 the page views that Medium has, with only 3 full time staff. https://www.similarweb.com/website/freecodecamp.com?competitors=medium…
I love Medium and I hope it succeeds. It sounds like their headcount was substantially higher than it needed to be and that this layoff was the right move.
I wish Ev had mentioned all the additional facts that are in this article by one of Medium's investors: https://500ish.com/long-medium-b9ddfe2c3a0a#.ch2benant
chambo622 · 2015-10-24
Medium also lets users bring their own custom domains - for example, https://500ish.com.
sn_master · 2021-10-24
> iTunes was originally Mac only
When Apple made iTunes for Windows, Steve Jobs called it “It's like giving somebody a glass of hell in ice water.” [1]
I mean, was Windows Media Player really that bad? I still miss the visualizations and even the fancy skins. iTunes in comparison was very dull and barely changed in 20 years.
[1] https://500ish.com/a-time-to-kill-itunes-2d9a24529b9a
jpdus · 2021-10-20
On that topic by M.G. Siegler on 10/6:
"Facebook is not dying as a business, but they’ve died as a brand. The company needs to move on to ‘what’s next’ as quickly as possible to distance themselves from the social network. This is nothing new, of course — I wrote this over six years ago. They’ve more or less been trying to do this for years. But even in creating an umbrella company, they called it ‘Facebook’, which was dumb. It was the exact opposite of what they should have done. Because, again, Facebook, the brand, is over."
https://500ish.com/facebook-is-too-big-fail-eb8c143a9afc
markpapadakis · 2020-01-11
From https://500ish.com/offline-curious-85363c4aed18
> One trend I’m most curious about right now is the rise of no or low alcohol drinks. I noticed this in Europe years ago — that nearly everywhere you went they not only offered, but touted non-alcoholic beverages in bars — highlighting the opposite approach the US was taking: pushing more extreme alcoholic drinks like Four Loko and the like, with non-alcoholic drinks being almost a taboo here. That is changing, quite quickly, it seems.
SyneRyder · 2019-04-09
Isn't Apple introducing the same autoplay-trailers to their devices once Apple TV+ launches? I found this from MG Siegler:
"Trailers also now seem to autoplay inline, just like on Netflix, which many people — including people I’m married to — hate with a passion. Good luck with that, Apple."
https://500ish.com/apple-unveils-the-ifawn-11c00912a686
taylorwc · 2015-07-14
The interesting departure from this strategy, though still related, is their interest in ESPN. I read (looking for the source, will add when I can recall it) that ESPN accounts for nearly 25% of Disney's overall earnings.
Edit: finally found the source! https://500ish.com/the-9-bullet-points-of-doom-for-espn-a692d0f48182