Ask most historians in the UK and New York became the center of the world after the Second World War, I always wondered about this view of things.
Google Ngrams shows New York passing in front of London in 1910.
London, Paris, New York (English)
I’ve not mentioned Paris which lags behind London for the whole period. But then it is in English. How do the Germans see the world?
OK, it’s here.
Apple – App Store – Buy, download, and install apps made for Mac.
I’m on the record as saying that this is a massive day for Apple. Today is the day that it becomes easier to buy software for a Mac than for any other platform.
The next few weeks will contain grumbles about developer contracts and prices but the result is that today Apple has the only platform that works from end-to-end. Life gets difficult for the competition starting today.
Here are my first impressions:
Overall, there are tactical issues to solve but when the strategy is so clearly right I think that they can afford to spend to the time getting this right.
All makes perfect sense but why have we built so much rubbish since?
“After going through that experience, Woolley had an epiphany: financial institutions that react to market incentives in a competitive setting often end up making a mess of things. “I realized we were acting rationally and optimally,” he said. “The clients were acting rationally and optimally. And the outcome was a complete Horlicks.” Financial markets, far from being efficient, as most economists and policymakers at the time believed, were grossly inefficient. “And once you recognize that markets are inefficient a lot of things change.”
Wall Street, investment bankers, and social good : The New Yorker.
How long before every coffee shop gets a green circle logo with no name?
