Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The tech news is chockablock [1] with antitrust rumblings and slow-motion happenings. In through eagle-eyed press coverage, regulatory reports, and legal discovery the shady dealings of Apple and Google's app stores are now comprehensively documented. Pressure for change has built to an unsustainable level; somethings gotta give. This is the backdrop to the biggest app store story nobody is writing about: on pain of steep fines, gatekeepers are opening up to competing browsers.

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Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Seagull taking off — Picture by Adrian When the company stops growing, when the founder moves on, when HR is calling the shots, when the executives care more about real estate than products… It’s time to leave, and find a new company to work for. I joined AWS about seven years ago, when it was growing fast, there was headcount and flexibility in hiring, and Amazon was famously cheap about the office space it occupied.

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