They built things we genuinely needed, got us hooked, and then figured out they could monetize the removal. Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta — different companies, same playbook. Documented as it happens.
(Note: If you are specifically hunting the TheranasAI arc, check here. For the Insert Coin gaming arc, check here.)
- Apple's Fastest Design Reversal Ever: iOS 26.1's Liquid Glass Toggle
- Apple vs. India: When Privacy Theater Meets Selective Enforcement
- Escaping Apple's iPad Keyboard Nightmare: A Privacy-First Experiment
Typewise Keyboard Update: The Honeycomb Experiment Hits Reality
- YouTube Just Killed Your Browser Workaround—And Why This Should Piss You Off
- Four Days. That's How Long It Took YouTube to Prove My Point.
- The Passkey & OTP Nightmare: How "Security" Became User-Hostile
- So I Got Annoyed With Weather App Accuracy... and Built a Lab in My Pocket
- The Ad Blocker War: YouTube's Escalation and the Weapon They've Been Quietly Building
- Meta Banned Me Before I Could Even Scroll: A Threads Story
- Jensen Huang Wants $1 Trillion While Demoing Features You'll Need $10,000 to Run
- Your Car's New Brain Will Cost More to Fix Than the Car Is Worth
- You Load Sixteen Tokens, What Do You Get?
- Jensen's Apology Tour Changes Exactly Nothing
- Can a User-Hostile Leopard Change Its Spots? Or Will It Cheetah?
- The Crowbar on Pandora's Box
- Bitwarden Doubled Their Price. I'd Already Left. Here's What You Missed.
- Netflix Got $2.8 Billion Last Month. Now It Wants More of Yours.
- Phase 3: Profit — The GitHub Story
- They're Racing to Stay Ahead of the Fuse
- Do Not Blow Your Cover
- For Entertainment Purposes Only (Bonus Post!)
- "Privacy. That's iPhone." — and Other Things That Need an Asterisk
- Still Can't Get a Human to Read Your Resume. LinkedIn Knows Everything Else About You Though.
- Burn It Down
- Organics Not Required™
- Smile For The Algorithm
- "Not Even Government Agencies"
- The Rocket They Built Yesterday Morning
- The Walled Garden Is a Business Model: Apple's Other War on Users
- Life Found a Way
- Read Receipt
- The Zombie That Won't Stay Dead
- Character Flaw: A Postscript (Bonus Mini Post)
- That's The Number They're Telling You.
- Total Coincidence, I'm Sure
- Parallel Series (Bonus Mini Post)
- Phase 3, Act II: The Meter Is Running
- Sony Forgot What Won Them the Console War
- Evil vs Evil, or: How Two Billionaires Accidentally Told the Truth in Oakland
- Two sets of Numbers
- Zero Dollars In. Thirty Billion Out.
- Sony's Monopoly Fine Gets Paid In Monopoly Money
- Tired of Copilot? At Least Microsoft Told You.
- The IPO Just Got...Complicated
- House of Cards
- Close and Friendly
- Prove You're Human. Pay With Your Data.
- Better Rivets
- Disappearing Emails
- The Firmware Cliff Just Got Quietly Pushed to 2029
- The Adult in the Room
- One Day of Complicated Feelings
- The Settlement Is Real. The Features Weren't
- Meta Is Now Tracking Its Employees. Funny How That Works.
- While Court Was In Session
- Same Spots. Same Leopard.
- The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
- Apple's Privacy Promise Is Starting to Look Like a Marketing Slogan
- The Calendar Technicality
- Every Road Leads to Google
- Five Days
- Phase 3, Act III: The Building Is on Fire
- The Game Was Never Free: How the Industry Learned to Sell You the Same Thing Twice
- The Failsafe That Isn't: Microsoft's MFA Problem
- The Escape That Wasn't
- The AI Gold Rush Is Eating Its Own
- The App Store Is A Dragnet
- The X That Doesn't Work (On Purpose)
- Jensen's New Math: Why the Man Who Wanted $1 Trillion Is Suddenly Interested in Your Laptop
- Wait. Florida?
- Jensen's Reality Bubble at Computex 2026
- They Said the Quiet Part Out Loud. Again.
- Apple's Privacy Stance: The Latest Act Of Courage
- Guess He Binged It
- The Box on the Wall
- Privacy. Trust. Safety. (Terms Apply.)
- Same Surveillance, Shinier Bow
- What Your Phone Is Handing Out Before You've Said a Word
- The Door Is Shut. Finally, Completely.
- Vote? We Have Lawyers.
- What Were You Really Doing Playing Pokémon GO?
- Fox Bought the Living Room
- Alternative App Store Now Available.* (Terms and Conditions Apply.)
- Smaller Batches Sharper Eyes
- Valve announced Steam Machine pricing and everyone's mad at the wrong people.
- oh I'm sure there will be more...