There are a thousand no’s for every yes, they say. Well, we’d sure love to see the list of 999 things that lost out to “partner with Goldman Sachs for a credit card that gives customers 3% back on products that have 40% margins and subscriptions they take a 50% cut from”.

This week: paper towel roll size hierarchies, Notes.app apologies, and an Oasis appears in the Amazon. Oh, and we briefly touch on the Apple services event. 🤢.

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• Kindle Oasis - Amazon Official Site - E-reader

We've made this episode about 10% bigger and given it a new name to juice this quarter's cash flows. Shipping late 2026.

This week: the Swedes lobby for fair play in Apple's walled garden, Google gets its head in the game, and an exclusive no-holds-barred interview with Eddy Cue. 🎬.

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• Carlos Gomez on Twitter: "Oh no. First The East Cut and now this.… "

If you want a Model 3, you better purchase one before Tesla pivots again and decides to convert half of their stores into Pinkberry franchises. Everything is amateur hour all the time now … except in energy bar PR — they came to play and brought the receipts.

This week: cities v. cashless stores, Elon Musk v. himself, and Ryan v. the command line. 🤦🏻‍♂️.

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• Kevín on Twitter: "What is the correct way to rank these chips?… "

Unveiling a breakthrough new concept in thoughtfully appointed hotels and no Ja Rule is not welcome to invest.

This week: deciphering the Fearless Flyer, pondering how Orange County became California’s Texas, and digging up the lede Tesla buried under a bunch of last gen Superchargers. 🚗.

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• Amazon.com: BLACK+DECKER Digital Advantage Professional Steam Iron, LCD Screen, Gray, D2030: Home & Kitchen

Little known fact: nutritional facts are listed in descending order by weight. If Tim has his way, Apple’s quarterly earnings reports will have ‘Services’ as the top ingredient.

This week: both the SEC and Carlos have beef with Tesla, Jeffrey B. abandons his plan to get a brownstone HQ2 in Long Island, and what likely will be an immediately out of date discussion of Bryce Harper-gate. ⚾️.

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• Tesla on Twitter: "Introducing Dog Mode: set a cabin temperature to keep your dog comfortable while letting passersby know they don't need to worry… https://t.co/7hFX7e0qGm"

With Amazon’s surprise acquisition of eero, podcasters everywhere expressed nervousness about the day Bezos Co. buys Squarespace and there is no one left to buy podcast ads. Not us though. We’re sustained by a generous grant from the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

This week: window cleaning robots, rumblings from the Genius Grove, and Tim Cook holds the editor of the Orange County Register upside down until all the quarters fall out. 🗞.

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• Photo - WALL-E (i.e. Carlos's Roomba)

“Psst. Hey kid. Yeah, you. Let’s make a deal. I’ll give you $20 a month and you give me root level access to all your web traffic, online shopping history, contacts, location data, personal connections, photographs, videos, life events...”

This week: Carlos gets a robot, Apple celebrates National Privacy Day, Facebook pulls a Facebook, and Spindrift comes out of nowhere to top our Still or Sparkling® power rankings. 🍋.

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• Men's Wool Runners - Tuke French Fry (Cream Sole)

Loyal listeners, get your bingo cards ready because I think we might clear the board with this one. This week: EVs, mobile payments, streaming video, sparkling water, and a Canadian musician gets a PepsiCo payday. 💸.

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• Bubly | Michael Bublé | Super Bowl Teaser - YouTube

If there’s two things we know about hockey, it’s that you never leave your goaltender alone when Sorenson is on the move and you definitely should have launched your streaming video project five years ago when it would have actually mattered.* 🥅.

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• SF Giants’ home now called Oracle Park after AT&T split - SFGate

Tim wrote a letter. 📉.

Links:

• The One Issue the Left and Right Can Agree On | The New Republic