> As I wrote a month ago, Apple is due for a major management shake-up and the spotlight is squarely on John Ternus as Tim Cook’s successor as CEO. But I don’t get the sense anything is imminent as the FT is claiming.
DHS Proposal: Weighted Selection Process for Registrants and Petitioners Seeking to File Cap-
Subject H-1B Petitions [1]
Summary:
USCIS would use the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) wage levels for the relevant job classification (SOC code) and location to determine how many times a registration is entered into the selection pool.
Registrations would be weighted like this:
• Wage Level IV → 4 entries
• Wage Level III → 3 entries
• Wage Level II → 2 entries
• Wage Level I → 1 entry
A “unique beneficiary” is counted once toward numerical allocations, no matter how many registrations are submitted for them or how many entries they get in the weighted pool.
That’s fine and all, but if this is the direction they’re taking, why not just call it AppleOS 26 across all platforms? Even if each platform gets a “specialized” version.
Part of me wonders if this is related to the EU CRA. It mandates software support lifecycles. It’s a lot easier to say xxxOS 26 is supported until 2032, 27 until 2033, etc as opposed to iOS 19 is supported until 2032, macOS 15 is supported until 2033, etc etc
> I hereby order the Attorney General not to take any action on behalf of the United States to enforce the Act for 75 days from the date of this order, to permit my Administration an opportunity to determine the appropriate course of action with respect to TikTok.
> I further order the Attorney General to issue a letter to each provider stating that there has been no violation of the statute and that there is no liability for any conduct that occurred during the above-specified period
> While the court today decides that the Act's divestment mandate survives a First Amendment challenge, that is not
without regard for the significant interests at stake on all sides. Some 170 million Americans use TikTok to create and view all sorts of free expression and engage with one another and the world. And yet, in part precisely because of the platform's expansive reach, Congress and multiple Presidents determined that divesting it from the PRC's control is essential to protect
our national security.
To give effect to those competing interests, Congress chose divestment as a means of paring away the PRC's control-and
thus containing the security threat—while maintaining the app and its algorithm for American users. But if no qualifying divestment occurs—including because of the PRC's or ByteDance's unwillingness-many Americans may lose access to an outlet for expression, a source of community,
and even a means of income.
Congress judged it necessary to assume that risk given the grave national-security threats it perceived. And because the record reflects that Congress's decision was considered, consistent with longstanding regulatory practice, and devoid of an institutional aim to suppress particular messages or ideas,
we are not in a position to set it aside.
Disney HotStar managed to stream ~60M livestreams for the Cricket world cup a year ago. The problem has been solved. Livestreaming sports just have a different QoS expectations than on demand.
I wouldn't say it's a solved problem, how many other companies are pulling off those numbers? Isn't that the current record for concurrent streams? And wasn't it mostly to mobile devices?
The size of engineering head count is not informative, it really depends on how much is in-house and how much is external for Hotstar that would be i.e parent Disney or before Fox or staffing from IT consulting organizations who will not be on payroll.
For what it is worth, all things being equal there would be lot more non engineering in Hotstar for 2000 employees versus a streaming company of similar size or scale of users. Hotstar operates in challenging and fragmented market, India has 10+ major languages(and corresponding TV, music and movie markets) Technically there is not much difference to what Netflix or Disney has to do for i18n, however operationally each market needs separate sales, distribution and operations.
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P.S. Yes Netflix operates in more markets including India than anybody else, however if you are actually using Netflix for almost any non English content, you will know how weak their library and depth in other markets are, their usual model in most of these markets is to have few big high quality(for that market) content rather than build depth.
P.P.S. Also yes, Indian market is seeing consolidation in the sense that many releases on streaming are multiple lingual and use major stars from more than one language to draw talent ( not new, but growing in popularity as distribution becomes cheaper with streaming), however this is only seen in big banner productions as tastes are quite different in each market and can't scale for all run of the mill content.
> As I wrote a month ago, Apple is due for a major management shake-up and the spotlight is squarely on John Ternus as Tim Cook’s successor as CEO. But I don’t get the sense anything is imminent as the FT is claiming.
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