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Jean-Louis Gassée
Personal blog · mondaynote.comhardwarebusiness
Jean-Louis Gassée's personal blog at mondaynote.com covers hardware and business. Since 2008, 292 different Hacker News readers have linked it 718 times, most often “The ARPUs of the Big Four Dwarf Everybody Else”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jean-Louis Gassée's Monday Note for tech-industry analysis, especially on Apple, ad revenue per user (ARPU) at Google and Facebook, and Theranos. Comments mostly cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The ARPUs of the Big Four Dwarf Everybody Else9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2019-02-12
- Theranos Could Have Been Stopped5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-05-21
- Microsoft’s New CEO Needs An Editor4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-07-13
- Tesla and Apple Valuation Questions – Monday Note4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-01-13
- Intel 2.0 Reboot4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-11
- Marzipan: The False Mac iPad Dilemma Resolved4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-03-04
- 40 Years Later: Apple 3.04 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-03-28
- Autonomous Cars: The Level 5 Fallacy3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-09-11
- Apple’s new APFS file system3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-04-10
- Lame Neutering Performance Reviews3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-31
What Hacker News says?
Beyond stealing piles of money from investors, lying to people about medical treatments. Folks were making serious medical decisions with the results from their faked / half-assed tests. We should destroy her life for cavalierly playing around with other people's lives in that manner. Theranos intentionally destroyed the database of test results, but their clear goal was to yolo out medical tests. See eg [1] or [2]…
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on “Elizabeth Holmes found guilty”Submitted Facebook’s disingenuous explanations call for more questions and even less trust as a story · 401 points
HN discussionTotal spending on digital ads in the United States, a reasonably proxy for the value of the ads to advertisers, has been cited at about $111B[1]. There are about 280 million Internet users in the U.S.[2] (averaging the 2018 measurement of 275M and the 2019 projection of 285M). That works out to about $33 per user per month—which is a decent chunk of change, but much less than $200/month. [1] https://mondaynote.com/t…
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on “Brave launches 1.0”Submitted Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible with News as a story · 369 points
HN discussionHere's average revenue per user (per year) for many top companies. https://mondaynote.com/the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-every... For anyone who is a user of multiple brands, you need to add these numbers.
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on “Brave launches 1.0”Submitted Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel as a story · 364 points
HN discussionAmen. For more on that, see Edward Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint". It's no wonder Jeff Bezos insists on his subordinates bringing 2-3 page length essays, not slides, to decision meetings. https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/pi/2016_2017/phil/... https://mondaynote.com/bezos-a-ceo-who-can-write-2f368ee3659...
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on “A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)”Submitted ARM Mac Impact on Intel as a story · 324 points
HN discussionThe founder of Be wrote a bunch of articles about Be's life, and demise https://mondaynote.com/tagged/beos
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on “BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X”Submitted The Internet of Poorly Working Things as a story · 321 points
HN discussionyeah thats the tricky thing. Google makes $256/user per year domestically in ad revenue. That's $21/month. https://mondaynote.com/the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-every... it's really hard not to be the product.
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on “YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video”Submitted Apple’s new APFS file system as a story · 305 points
HN discussionAs said in this [1] article, one of the worst thing camera makers are guilty of is not slapping Android on their cameras to open up th instant publication, photo manipulation, etc. It's a shame that a professional camera is 90% of the time simply not as useful as a smartphone, even ... as a camera. [1]: https://mondaynote.com/memo-to-camera-makers-put-android-in-...
Comment linking /memo-to-camera-makers-put-android-in-your-device-of-face-extinction-1c9a228287e2
on “Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing”Submitted How Intel missed the smartphone market as a story · 292 points
HN discussionHe still blogs about Apple at http://www.mondaynote.com/
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on “Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist”Submitted Credder Wants to Create an Equivalent to “Rotten Tomatoes” for News as a story · 262 points
HN discussionIn those countries where such luxuries are provided, the option of working for a (homegrown) tech giant isn't even available: http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/08/24/why-europe-hates-us-int...
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on ““I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon””Submitted Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes as a story · 252 points
HN discussionhttps://mondaynote.com/the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-every... . Depends on the metric you use. > Facebook’s revenue per user is roaring. For Q4 2018 vs. Q4 2017, it’s global ARPU increased by 19 percent to $7.37, and the US-Canada ARPU by 30 percent to $35. Between 2011 and 2018, the social network global ARPU rose nearly 6x, while the US-Canada grew 11x. With a domestic revenue per user of $112, Facebook is the e…
Comment linking /the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-everybody-else-e5b02a579ed3
on “Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes”Submitted A Salute to Solo Programmers as a story · 245 points
HN discussionGoogle makes $21 on average per US user per month [1], almost all of which comes from advertising. Would you pay $21/mo for your Google services? [1] https://mondaynote.com/the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-every...
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on “WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy”Submitted Apple Never Invented Anything as a story · 245 points
HN discussionWhat you really want to ask about is the ARPU metric, or Average Revenue Per User: https://mondaynote.com/the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-every... Google gets revenues of about $256 per user per year, mostly from search ad impressions. That's the context for this $15 per user deal; their ROI is nearly 20x. For context, Apple makes about $30 on services like iCloud per user; if you factor in hardware sales every 2 ye…
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on “Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021”Submitted Joining Apple 40 years ago as a story · 233 points
HN discussionIn my opinion, this is a pretty good critique of his writing style along with some constructive suggestions on how to improve it: http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/07/13/microsofts-new-ceo-need...
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on “Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs”Submitted The Media Industry and the “Make-Google-Pay” Fantasy as a story · 227 points
HN discussionHistorian Walter McDougall has written about the duality of the American term "hustle", which means both "being a go-getter" and "scam". He's writing a whole three-volume history of America from this perspective that I keep wanting to find time to read: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/books/free-to-be-you-and-... That's always had resonance for me, especially here in startup culture, where the line between the tw…
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on “Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction Support Groups”Submitted Intel Fights for Its Future as a story · 226 points
HN discussionIt was a really beautiful, functional, svelte & fast OS. IMHO, Apple made the right decision with Next because of Jobs. I’d sure like to see the results of the alternate timeline! I still feel like Be could be great for phones/mobile, maybe VR. (Just as it was so foundationally low latency) (Note I am aware of Haiku, etc. I’m using “Be” to mean something from its linage) Side note - Jean-Louis Gassée, founder(?) of…
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on “'Be' is nice, end of story”Submitted Tesla’s New Car Smell as a story · 214 points
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