MG Siegler

4 days ago | spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler

Do you have some elements of your past that you’d prefer to forget? Of course you do, you’re human.1 And are some of those moments captured online in some way? Probably, if you’ve been using Facebook or Google for long enough. Are these worlds about to collide? It sure seems that way. Geoffrey Fowler highlighted this issue in a column last week for The Washington Post. In testing the new, stand-alone Meta AI app, he writes:But Meta AI also brings something else to chatbots: surveillance.

1 week ago | spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler

ESPN will call its forthcoming flagship streaming app simply ‘ESPN,’ sources sayESPN decided to name the streaming application “ESPN” to simplify what has become a confusing streaming landscape. A couple days ago, after Bob Iger teased on Disney's (fantastic) earnings call that they would soon announce the name, date, and pricing of the new stand-alone ESPN streaming service, I lobbed a joke grenade.

1 week ago | spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler

What struck me most about Jony Ive's sit down with Patrick Collison at Stripe Sessions 2025 was actually less his design thoughts – though there were plenty of those – but more the tangential topic of team building and culture. It's just not what you might expect the key takeaway to be from such a chat. Then again, designing a team is arguably the most important part of design, at least if you hope to scale it in any way.

1 week ago | spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler

One man has the power to tank the stocks of not one, but two multi-trillion dollar companies in an instant. No, I'm not talking about Donald Trump (for once). I'm talking about Apple SVP Eddy Cue.

1 week ago | spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler

It’s one thing to know something is idiotic and customer hostile, it’s another to see it. Such was the case with a single little tweak to Amazon’s Kindle app for iOS. Here’s Andrew Liszewski for The Verge:Following a ruling on April 30th by the Epic Games v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, Apple can no longer collect a 27 percent commission on purchases made outside of apps or restrict how developers can direct users to alternate payment options.