Android phones are sold by dozens of hardware makers, the biggest being Samsung, Motorola, and HTC. There are lots of different form factors. Slider phones. Phones with keyboards. Big screens, small screens, midsize screens.
To be sure, robotics are not the only job killers out there, with outsourcing stealing far more gigs than automation.
If your plumber or pool installer or local appliance store uses HubSpot software, HubSpot may be holding information about you without you even knowing it. We figure we're safe when we use online services. We figure we can trust the people who run them not to snoop on us. I used to believe that. I don't anymore.
What if the Big Three automakers made products that were simple and easy to use - imagine a car with a user interface made by Apple - while also constantly trying to push the state of the art? What if they constantly sought out new technologies and ideas, and incorporated them into their products?
You realize that if you're in the media business, technology is fundamentally what's driving the change in that business.
Apple is very, very good at almost everything it does, and that includes corporate communications.
'Do not track' probably won't spell doom for online advertisers. But it will put the burden on them to explain to consumers what targeted advertising is and why it's good for them. They'll have to come out of the shadows; they'll have to be honest with people. What a radical concept. I'm all for it.
People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on every move made by Microsoft or Google or Apple. Every new smart phone gets billed as a potential 'iPhone killer,' while every new product from Apple represents the dawn of a new era. It's ridiculous - and exhausting.
Why can't modern tech companies both grow and turn a profit at the same time?
HubSpot is divided into 'neighborhoods,' each named after a section of Boston: North End, South End, Charlestown.
Carrier networks were originally built for connecting phone calls. Now they're getting swamped with bandwidth-hogging data applications. Keeping up will require huge investments. Who's going to pay for that?
HubSpot's offices occupy several floors of a 19th-century furniture factory that has been transformed into the cliche of what the home of a tech startup should look like: exposed beams, frosted glass, a big atrium, modern art hanging in the lobby.
If we didn't have Net neutrality, carriers could do things like penalize companies that use a lot of bandwidth or create high-speed lanes and charge Internet companies extra fees to send their stuff over them. That would give an advantage to big companies and make life harder for startups.
There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they put out press releases.
I want to get in on how the media business is changing, how people are telling stories in new ways.
People in startup-land live inside it. They see themselves as really good people even when they're doing something that's very bad. There's a huge disconnect from reality in the tech world.
I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world.
There are two types of young people - the partiers and the people who wanted a sense of purpose in their life.
I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.
I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.
