Siddharth S. Jha

Jun 24 2024

Apple Intelligence, The Economics of Fast-Moving Markets and OpenAI

Exploring the dynamics of fast-moving markets, particularly focusing on Apple’s entry into a market where OpenAI was the first mover. Apple seems to be positioned to take a lead, leveraging their vertically integrated, controlled ecosystem that generally results in a superior user experience. Touching on economics of Aggregation Theory in this market while making UX observations. A brief synopsis of enterprise AI as well.

Oct 28 2022

Twitter

A solemn goodbye to Twitter, a product that was once very cool. A real-time communication tool that has become a cesspool for many years now. And how it’s going to get inevitably ruined after a takeover from a business magnate who doesn’t know how to build social products.

Oct 21 2022

Ideas

Ideas can outlast human lives, last for generations and spark revolutions. Steve Jobs is no more but his ideas still live on in the tools many of us use daily. I interact with his ideas every day. Thomas Edison’s ideas live on whenever we turn on the switch every evening to illuminate our living spaces. Ideas of Ancient Greeks around democracy live on as people vote during midterm elections in the United States or state elections in India to put their desired political leaders in power.

Oct 10 2022

📺 Three Shows I've Watched

A look into what shows I’ve been watching on streaming services and why they’re cool.

Aug 12 2022

The Best $25 I Ever Spent

Late last year, I was looking for a timer watch I could use during workouts. An Apple Watch or Fitbit seemed like the default option for many. Even though, in the early 2010s, I was a user of the Pebble watch (RIP) way before smartwatches went mainstream, I never really had a thing for smartwatches. I don’t think I ever wore my Pebble after the first few days of trying it.

Aug 11 2022

iOS 16 Album Art

Album art looks really good on iOS 16’s Lock Screen. I like how it takes up most of the screen and how the background blends in. Album art plays such a key role in exuding a record’s vibes. Over the last 5 years, in the previous releases of iOS (iOS 11 to 15), the now playing on the lock screen was pretty boring. Album art was tiny. It just didn’t do justice to the artist.

Aug 5 2022

Galleries of the Future

Today, I went to an art gallery. There was a cool exhibition on one of the floors that had on display, among many artifacts, an assortment of Polaroids, typed letters, handwritten notes and a few home videos. These tidbits had been collected from the lives of well-known artists like David Hockney, Andy Warhol and also from just regular people around the world. A paper copy of a script and other print artifacts.

Aug 3 2022

The Jony Ive, J.J. Abrams and Brian Grazer talk

I recently unearthed on YouTube an absolute gem of a conversation held at a Vanity Fair event about 7 years ago between designer Jony Ive, film director JJ Abrams and film producer Brian Grazer — three individuals who are true legends of the creative domain. The convo delivers a volume of timeless creative insights you will rarely find distilled anywhere else in such a free-flowing fashion. There is one part of the convo that struck me the most and it’s something I think I will keep coming back to over the course of my career.

Aug 2 2022

Speakers on Silicon Macs

Several months ago, I did a big switch from Spotify to Apple Music due to the savings from the Apple One bundle as I was already paying for other stuff like News+, iCloud separately. I do miss the quality and variety of playlists on Spotify, but as long as there are cost savings (~$20/mo), I think I can live without it. Plus, I ported all my Spotify playlists over anyway.

Aug 1 2022

Services We Put Our Trust in

I wouldn’t be alone to admit that one of my most important possessions is my Gmail archive. I’ve used Gmail since it launched in 2004 as my primary personal email. This information isn’t public so I don’t know for sure, but Gmail probably had users in the low millions that year. Well over a billion people use the service now. Paul Buccheit, the former Google employee who invented Gmail, must feel good about his project progressing from just an idea to billions of users.
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