I don’t know. Just run Linux in a VM on macOS. What exactly is Apple not permitting you to do?
Asahi would have 100x more adoption if it was about better virtualization of Linux on macOS. It would be a DIFFERENT product and I guess that’s the point, right?
> Just run Linux in a VM on macOS. What exactly is Apple not permitting you to do?
High performance GPU for VMs, for starters. And the amount of crap that even a bare-bones macOS needs to load (and that consequently hog resources like RAM and CPU time) is a goddamn joke.
You cannot uninstall Music.app indeed. There is one toggle that hides all of Apple Music. It completely hides it, to the point that a link online to the service will error out.
another POV is that solutions that require no long term "durable workflow" style storage provide exponentially more value. if you are making something that requires durable workflows, you ought to spend a little bit of time in product development so that it does not require durable workflows, instead of a ton of time making something that isn't very useful durable.
for example, you can conceive of a software vendor that does the end-to-end of a real estate transaction: escrow, banking, signature, etc. The IT required to support the model of such a thing would be staggering. Does it make sense to do that kind of product development? That is inventing all of SAP, on top of solving your actual problem. Or making the mistake of adopting temporal, trigger, etc., who think they have a smaller problem than making all of SAP and spend considerable resources convincing you that they do.
The status quo is that everyone focuses on their little part to do it as quickly as possible. The need for durable workflows is BAD. You should look at that problem as, make buying and selling homes much faster and simpler, or even change the order of things so that less durability is required; not re-enact the status quo as an IT driven workflow.
Why are real-estate transactions complex and full of paperwork? Because there are history books filled with fraud. There are other types of large transactions that also involve a lot of paperwork too, for the same reason.
Why does a company have extensive internal tracing of the progress of their business processes, and those of their customers? Same reason, usually. People want accountability and they want to discourage embezzlement and such things.
Interesting thought but how do you sell an idea that sounds like...
"How we've been doing things is wrong and I am going to redesign it in a way that no one else knows about so I don't have to implement the thing that's asked of me"
Haha, another way of describing what you are saying is enterprise sales: “give people exactly what they ask for, not what makes the most sense.”
Businesses that require enterprise sales are probably the worst performing category of seed investing. They encompass all of Ed tech and health tech, which are the two worst industry verticals for VC; and Y Combinator has to focus on an index of B2B services for other programmers because without that constraint, nearly every “do what you are asked for” would fail. Most of the IT projects business do internally fail!
In fact I think the idea you are selling is even harder, it is much harder to do B2B enterprise sales than knowing if the thing you are making makes sense and is good.
I read the paper, there’s tons of interesting research showing advertising CAUSING certain effects (oftentimes good ones!) but, what’s the point of participating with that substance? People want to participate in a hand up-and-down motion on circularly adjacent partners about “advertising bad,” not learn something.
Why this bitterness in defense of advertisers of all things? Engage with the comments, rather than disparaging them all from above in a blanket statement. They all have substance regardless of the details of the study.
this isn't a "credibility revolution" paper, it doesn't show causality, it doesn't use randomization anywhere, and it is very much a post hoc ergo proctor hoc sort of thing
some evidence of the contrary: DTC pharmaceutical ads about Zoloft, a depression medication, cause better health outcomes
there is also a great paper that scary lawyer ads about statins CAUSE lower adherence to statins, so negative advertising causes negative outcomes. unsurprising.
i'm not saying that these two papers generalize to the whole of digital advertising. it is as difficult to generalize about global digital advertising at it is to generalize about the US defense budget - they are comparable in size (about $800b/y both) and complexity of missions. it does feel good though. i'm glad this comment will get downvoted by people who are not interested in actually discussing the merits of the paper versus their vibes.
instead you could look at it as a victory for the FDA, it has done a great job at regulating drugs (at least since 1965 when the SSA created medicare and the regulations started to matter) such that advertising them is mostly a good thing. You can extrapolate from there to say, well we should regulate what you can advertise instead of delegating it out to upvotes and downvotes on Facebook, which is really how bad and good ads are controlled.
Pharma reps (advertising) consume physician time --> doctors have less time per patient --> patients don't get properly evaluated --> DTC ads "help" by telling patients what their doctor didn't have time to ---> study shows DTC ads improve outcomes --> this is cited as evidence advertising is good
the kind of person who watches a LOT of television and movies likes slop, it's not complicated.
still different than media people PAY for. for example substack sells empty opinions that agree with you. it is totally wrong to say that slop sells. it is merely the highest engagement for an audience that DOESN'T pay.
you could say, "engagement is the wrong metric," but if that were really true, tech jobs would contract like 50%. the alternative becomes, "would you like fries with that?"
the POV really is: for every 19 people who will pay $14/mo for their preferred, unbundled service, there's 1 person who would happily pay $300/mo for a bundled service.
premium subs are for people who BUY subs not for people who WANT subs.
There are already numerous and simple policy levers that actually affect costs and cannot be gamed. Such as the age you become eligible for Medicare. You don't have to reach for anything innovative like global hospital budgets. I'm skeptical of your category of reforms - you really mean, "benign-looking administrative decisions," because if you're not making any hard choices, you're not making reforms. I would hardly call it "real efforts."
Asahi would have 100x more adoption if it was about better virtualization of Linux on macOS. It would be a DIFFERENT product and I guess that’s the point, right?
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