The companies forget how to make great products. The product sensibility and product genius that brought them to this monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies who have no conception of a good product vs. a bad product. They have no conception of the craftsmanship that’s required to take a good idea and turn it into a good product. And they really have no feeling in their hearts about wanting to help the costumers.”
- Steve Jobs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs:_The_Lost_Interview
I also had a GSM iPhone 4.
Compare that to how quickly they ran away from the shitty Intel modems when they were selling some made by Intel and some made by Samsung (?)
So the title is all speculation. The author put 2 and 2 together and concluded that 10 is greater than 9.
Worthless article.
Or you could just say "there is no way the thing that constantly happens over and over again has happened once again, just no way".
Staff cuts constantly happen in the name of maximising profits. They always yield poor results for a company's performance. Every time. Especially for the consumer's side of it (not the company's finances of course).
Every time.
But maybe this time it's different. That one time.
But I know very few people in the industry who know about Amazon’s reputation that have a life long dream of working there given a choice.
I was 46 when I was hired there for a “permanently remote [sic] field by design role” in ProServe and it was my 8th job out of college. I went in with my eyes wide open. I had a plan, stay for four years, sell my RSUs as soon as they vested, pay off debt, save some money, put it on my resume to open doors and make connections and leave.
I was never expecting to make more when I left. I used the time to downsize and reduce my expenses - including moving to state tax free Florida.
When I saw the writing on the wall, I played the game while I was on focus to get my next vest and wait for the “get 40k+ severance and leave immediately or try to work through the PIP”.
I took the latter and had three offers within 3 weeks. This was late 2023.
I left debt free, sold my old home for exactly twice what I had built for 8 years earlier, downsized to a condo half the price I sold it for (and 1/3 the size) and I was debt free with savings.
I’m now a staff consultant working full time at a 3rd party AWS consulting firm with a lot less stress and still remote. They were the last to fall. But AWS made their ProServe department return to office at the beginning of this year.
https://blog.stackademic.com/aws-just-fired-40-of-its-devops...
It's one one of the few parts of the internet which could potentially be replaced over time with very little disruption.
The hierarchy of resolvers could be replaced with a far simpler flat hierarchy Blockchain where people could buy and permanently own their domains directly on-chain... No recurring fees. People could host websites on the Blockchain from beyond the grave... This is kind of a dream of mine. Not possible to achieve in our current system.
This is precisely why something like this isn't a popular solution lots of people are working towards. Domains broadly speaking aren't a finite resource, but usable domains using common words definitely are. As time marches on human readable/typeable "permanent identifiers" are going to have to go away. Email address, usernames and the like are all going to get recycled, just like phone numbers are. Domains are currently recycled and most people probably think that's a good thing.
This is precisely why something like this isn't a popular solution lots of people are working towards. Domains broadly speaking aren't a finite resource, but usable domains using common words definitely are. As time marches on human readable/typeable "permanent identifiers" are going to have to go away. Email address, usernames and the like are all going to get recycled, just like phone numbers are. Domains are currently recycled and most people probably think that's a good thing (assuming they think about it at all)
I bought tombert.com in 2014 and forgot to renew it in 2015, and it was auctioned off by GoDaddy. For like seven years, it was owned by squatters, and they wanted thousands of dollars for the domain [1]. I called offering the $100 for it, and they claimed that they can't go below $1400 because this domain is in "extremely high demand". I finally was able to buy it back in 2021, presumably because the squatter purged out domains that hadn't been purchased for N years and they wanted to save money.
Now, you could argue "see! You wouldn't have had to worry about it expiring if it were permanent on the blockchain", and that's true, but if someone else had gotten to that domain first, then I would also never get it. I think the only thing that keeps the internet even remotely fair in this regard is that domain names cost some amount of money to keep.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160219161720/http://www.hugedo...
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2025/10/20/aws_outa...
Yes, development tools are better every day. Yes, you can downsize. No it won’t be felt immediately. Yes, it mortgages the future and at a painfully high interest rate.
Suspending disbelief won’t make downsizing work better.
jqpabc123•1h ago
nine_zeros•1h ago
bwfan123•13m ago
why not prompt ai's to fix this outage ? or maybe thats what is taking so long to fix [2] ?
[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
[2] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1980221072512635117