The Emperor Has No Clothes : Tech is Boring

Tricky Bits with Rob and PJ

May 18 2024 • 46 mins

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Hype is all around around the tech stories that are out there....

Apple has a terrible ad for a thinner iPad!
Google is leaving San Fran and moving jobs overseas!
Announcements around AI that is going to revolutionize everything!!!
Tech companies are acting like big corporations!!!

Maybe it is just us...but does anyone get the impression that tech news is actually a bit boring right now?

Perhaps we are just exhausted from the constant barrage of "bigger", "smaller", "better", "faster", "newer", "revolutionary, "evolutionary", "different"...

But it does feel like a moment when tech is really trying to keep its whizz bang growth cycle going...and not start to admit that these companies, while still wildly profitably, are transforming into the value, blue chip stocks (oh, no, we're IBM!) who are trying to eek out more profit from ads on smart TVs rather than actually innovate.

Join us as we rant a little bit on the current state of affairs!

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