Posts by Allen Cheung
The Great App Cheapening
During a fairly lonely drive to a friend's gathering up in Tahoe a few weeks back, I was listening to ATP, and the hosts of the podcast were chatting about the newly announced iPhone 6 Plus. In their…
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Those of us who grew up with video games in the 90s fondly remember the "console wars" of that era. There was Nintendo, with its iconic Super Nintendo system, filled to the brim with Mario and Yoshi and…
The Prestige in Writing Code for a Living
This writeup on the software industry's gender bias is maddening and depressing. To summarize, someone commenting on Secret made a horrendous assumption about a woman being "unqualified" to be a software engineer in the context of…
Outsized Credit for Tangential Association
I figured out the reason I find tech punditry – I guess punditry in general – distasteful. I'm writing the first draft of this post in the afterglow of the Apple Watch event, as they announced bigger iPhones and Apple…
The End of Standardized Readability
It started with Instapaper. The idea was to boost efficiency by employing the batching technique to article consumption, particularly mid- to long-form journalism found online. Saving an article for later separates the act of browsing content (say, from an…
Everything is Bullshit
Pricenomics is a startup that has somehow stumbled upon a pair of business models: data crawling, and blogging about data from a consumer-centric perspective. The latter has a pop-culture economics bent; it's a technique taken straight…
