Google Reader was building the wrong future

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds

Learn how one of the biggest tech companies played a major role in the reason many people stopped using RSS feeds

‘I hate the new Google Health app’: Fitbit fans bemoan the ‘end of an era’ as last holdouts are forced to switch to Google’s alternative

The final goodbye for the Fitbit app

Not OK, Google | TechCrunch

At its hardware launch event in San Francisco yesterday, Alphabet showed the sweeping breadth of its ambition to own consumers' personal data, as computing continues to accelerate away from static desktops and screens, coalescing into a cloud of connected devices with the potential to generate far more data -- and data of a far more intimate nature -- than ever before.

Why Native Apps Really are Doomed: Native Apps are Doomed pt 2

I recently wrote an article called “Native Apps are Doomed.” I was surprised at how many people were defending native apps. In all honesty…

Your ‘App’ Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you…)

I was asked to install a mobile app to get access to the itinerary of a trip to Disneyland I'm taking with the kids. Fuck that noise: couldn't it have just been a Web page? An hour of reverse-engineering later, it is, and it's superior in virtually every way to the "app" that it replaces.

Tim Sweeney on Twitter / X

Google is opening up Android all the way with robust support for competing stores, competing payments, and a better deal for all developers. So, we've settled all of our disputes worldwide. THANKS GOOGLE! https://t.co/Dq6eXNnZd0— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) March 4, 2026

I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did

Please do not use this post as an excuse to beat up the devs at Apple or Google. If you are doing that, you have missed the point of this post and you are being unnecessarily mean to individuals who may have no control over broader organizational decisions. Do not…

The Proto-App Thesis

Why the next great wave of apps is already upon us

Google hates you

"The repercussions of Google's pivot to AI will be vast and horrid."

The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps

The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps By Tiago Forte of Forte Labs At the end of 2014 I received an email informing me that I had read over a million words in the ‘read it later’ app …

Readwise Reader: The first read-it-later app built for power readers.

Save everything to one place to overcome content overload, search instantly, and highlight like a pro.

App subscriptions were always inevitable

The future will be paid for in small increments

Publishing apps | at-store

Writing, newsletters, blogging, and reader-growth tools built to help creators publish on the open web and keep direct relationships with their audience.