They're used for scams. Isn't that the basis in truth you're looking for in satire?

Before this we had "the internet is for porn." Same sort of exaggerated statement.

Jonathan Ross: shoots a woman three times, with the killing shot to the head fired from the side of the vehicle after the danger had passed, if there ever was any danger to begin with.

News: holy shit this guy murdered that lady on camera.

You: they are slandering ICE.

Make it make sense.

Why do we expect the state police to help murderers? My only question is why they're not out there protecting the people from the murderers.

Tesla is often compared to Apple.

I guess in this case it’s the Apple that dominated an emerging market, then fumbled it and completely lost the market to the IBM PC and ended up as a bit player for the next two decades.

I was working for a small software company at the time and we thought it was outrageous. We were selling our software online direct through our own web site and the cost was far lower. A few percent for credit card processing fees, and the server/bandwidth cost was inconsequential.

I'd guess one of two things. One is a conversation that goes like:

"I want to send letters to everyone who doesn't open our emails."

"We can't really detect that. We could add a tracking pixel, but–"

"Yeah, do that, the tracking pickle thing."

The other is that the "did they open this?" feature was rolled out purely for metrics knowing that it's imprecise, and later on got repurposed for something unsuitable without looking at how the "did this email get opened?" facility actually worked.

I would definitely open my mail if it came with a tracking pickle.

Phones were way less powerful 15 years ago and native software was much more important. A modern phone CPU running a browser on a larger screen takes care of a lot of what you need these days.

My first computer was an Apple IIGS and everything since then has been a Mac. "Scott" doesn't bring anyone specific to mind for me. Maybe that connection is automatic for newcomers who immediately think "iPhone" when they hear "Apple."

I had a very long career at Apple. I have also met and spent time with Woz on multiple occasions. I have some bias here.

Possibly my assumption was incorrectly based more on people who actually worked at Apple vs what the normal public thinks of when they hear “Scott” and “Woz” in the context of Apple.

It would make sense that people on the inside would be a lot more aware of him. Forstall was obviously a pretty big name in the community but not to the point of getting a shorthand name like that. And he was mostly forgotten pretty quickly after he left.

Both "works" and "reliably" are doing some really heavy lifting there.