ATTENUATING INNOVATION

Summary from the TLDR newsletter

Windows Mobile came too early - Android had the benefit of copying the iPhone, while Microsoft started development in 2000 with the Pocket PC 2000 operating system. Apple was able to invent the future by considering what the core functions of a cell phone would be years later. AI could be going down the same path as Window Mobile, especially with Biden's recent executive order, which is rooted in the past yet arrogant about an unknowable future, proscriptive instead of adaptive, and the most cynical attempt at regulatory capture the tech industry has ever seen.