Episode 439: You’re always going to be mad

This week, we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost, the Free Software Product License, paying for Social Media, and Apple's latest announcements. Plus, Matt begins the search for a new keyboard.

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Runner-up Titles

• Costservability
• Just a second
• 439 episodes of podcasting nirvana
• We’ve never made a mistake
• A million Amazon users of Copilot
• Chrome exists to serve RAM sales
• Two Turntables and a Microphone
• Default Search Engines

Rundown

• Cloud Earnings Review
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Q3 2023 Earnings Analysis
  • Amazon's Jassy: We're 'surprised' at growth of our generative AI business
  • Clouded Judgement 10.27.23 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 '23
• OpenCost Expands Its Horizon: Introducing Multi-Cloud Cost Monitoring
• Free Software Product
  • Open Source in Numbers: The Terraform License Change Impact on Contribution
  • Open Source and Capitalism with Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob / Oxide
  • Business Models
• Default Search Engine
  • Google reportedly pays $18 billion a year to be Apple’s default search engine
  • Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
  • “Chrome exists to serve Google search.” - The Verge
• Paid Social
  • Elon Musk will charge you more to avoid ads than Disney and Netflix
  • Facebook and Instagram launch a paid ad-free subscription
  • YouTube tries to kill ad blockers in push for ad dollars, Premium subs
• SolarWinds
  • SEC sues SolarWinds for misleading investors before 2020 hack
  • Observability provider SolarWinds reportedly exploring a sale
  • Bad Passwords Are Securities Fraud
• Apple
  • Apple unveils new MacBook Pro featuring M3 chips
  • Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone

Relevant to your Interests

• The Cloud Computer
• Linux Foundation Adopting Terraform Fork Provokes Ire of HashiCorp CEO
• 12-inch MacBook could return as a budget model, suggests leaker
• X usage plummets in Musk's first year as owner
• Zuckerberg says Threads has almost 100 million monthly users
• Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service
• Alphabet sees $165 billion in market cap wiped after cloud business growth disappoints Wall Street
• VMware closes its home for experimental software
• Samsung adds DisplayPort and more Multi View options to second massive Ark monitor
• Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA
• What's new in Red Hat OpenShift
• Announcing the Platform Engineering Maturity Model
• Welcoming Clearbit to the HubSpot Team
• Broadcom and VMWare Say $61 Billion Deal Will Close 'Soon'
• Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software

Nonsense

• Toyota’s Chairman Is Having His ‘I Told You So Moment’ About EVs
• Why Is Apple's USB-C Cable $130?
• The restaurant nearest Google
• Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT
• Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club to private equity
• WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week WSJ

Listener Feedback

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