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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions. This strategy improves encoding throughput by right-sizing jobs based on instance types. TV manufacturers released TVs ready for AV1 streaming.

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Why Browsers Get Built

Alex Russell

This strategy is exemplified by 1990s-era Andreesen's goal to render Windows "a poorly debugged set of device drivers" The idea is that the web is where the action is, and that the browser winning more user Jobs To Be Done follows from increasing the web platform's capability.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. However, the price of eye-tracking used to be much higher than heatmaps, as measuring users’ gaze required special hardware to be used in-lab.

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Safari 16.4 Is An Admission

Alex Russell

No, this was a change in strategy. From outright misstatements about a competitor's security, to claims that performance differences in hardware show Safari is faster, to [geographic brinksmanship](/2022/02/minimum-standards/), the confident bluster hasn't gone down particularly well. Regardless, Safari 16.4

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The Financialization of Disruptive Technology

The Agile Manager

What if this is not a viable strategy? Cheap capital makes it easy for anybody to enter the innovation game. Deep pocketed investors make it expensive to stay in the innovation game. This took advantage of a unique characteristics of software vis-a-vis its industrial (hardware) predecessors: real-time adaptability.

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Devops and the need for cloud based solutions

Testsigma

Infrastructure as a Service is the term used for those cloud-based solutions that provide complete infrastructure to the users including all the overheads, hardware, and networking facilities. SaaS does not need you to manage hardware or other requirements such as OS and middleware. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

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Sprint's Marathon

The Agile Manager

Third, hardware competition is increasingly fierce. While the name of the game is scale, these dynamics suggest it's not a mature market share game for the networks yet, as much as they're caught in the middle. On the sell side, those hardware and platform vendors late to the party are especially motivated sellers.