Level1 News December 18 2019 - Unicorns Aren't Real

The Brazen Business: A Cautionary Tale of Investing in Unproven Products

Be brazen enough to sell the line if you got like a $2 things spray paint and then sold the bike for this is a lemon bike look what I found it's fine that's the grapefruit brand they're really good so speaking of East scooters some a scooter companies were like ah this is the future let's get into this business and they started raising money and in this case, it wasn't a rent the scooter business, it was like buy your scooter right don't waste all your money just renting them buy it make an investment in yourself but unfortunately, things did not go as expected. A scooter company unicorn went bust after spending big on Facebook ads.

I don't understand like that this is infuriating. So, there were 250 people who bought a $6.99 scooter, and they raised $150,000 on their startup thing. They spent all the money on ads to get people more people to buy them it's Facebook ads so they thought hey we'll spend all this money on advertising and more people will buy the scooters and everything will work out, except no one bought another scooter. Look at that price point; you'd be wanting to sell bikes. It was a tough market for these scooters.

Facebook Ads: A Recipe for Disaster

The efficacy of Facebook ads is a topic of much debate, but it's clear that when done poorly, they can be devastating to even the most promising businesses. In this case, the scooter company spent their entire budget on ads, hoping to drive sales and create a buzz around their product. The problem was, no one bought another scooter.

Why did the scooter company fail so catastrophically? One reason is that the price point of $6.99 is simply too high for most consumers. It's like they were trying to sell a bike instead of a scooter. When you look at the market for scooters, there are plenty of affordable options available from established brands.

Sony Brings PlayStation Games to Non-PlayStation Consoles

In a surprise move, Sony has announced that it will be publishing its popular PlayStation games on non-PlayStation consoles. The news comes as a shock to many gamers, who had assumed that the exclusive titles would only be available on the PlayStation platform.

The reason behind this decision is not entirely clear, but it's likely that Sony wants to expand its reach and make its games more accessible to a wider audience. The announcement has sparked both excitement and skepticism among gamers, with some expressing concern that the quality of the games may suffer as a result of the transition.

MLB The Show: A Baseball Video Game for the Ages

One of the games being published by Sony is MLB The Show, a baseball video game that's been a staple of the genre for years. While it's not everyone's cup of tea (who enjoys watching baseball, anyway?), The Show has a dedicated fan base and is widely regarded as one of the best baseball games out there.

The news that MLB The Show will be available on non-PlayStation consoles may come as a surprise to some fans, but it's likely that Sony wants to reach a broader audience with its popular game. Whether or not this will work remains to be seen.

Microsoft Teams: A Cloud-Based Solution for Linux Users

In other news, Microsoft has announced the release of its Teams platform on Linux, making it easier for users in the Linux community to access and use the app. The move is a significant one, as Teams has long been known for its user-friendly interface and robust features.

The fact that Teams will be available on Linux means that users will no longer have to rely on alternative solutions, such as IRC or other third-party apps, to communicate and collaborate with colleagues. This is a big win for the Linux community, which has often felt like an afterthought in the world of business software.

Bummer Bert: A Dark Humorist's Creation

Microsoft Teams also includes a feature that may raise some eyebrows among users: Bumper Bert, a series of illustrations created by Microsoft that poke fun at the frustrations and challenges of working in an office. The artwork is intentionally dark and humorous, depicting everyday office life as a never-ending struggle.

While Bumper Bert may not be to everyone's taste, it's clear that the creators of Teams took the time to think about what makes office work so difficult – and how they can use humor to make it more palatable. Whether or not this will resonate with users remains to be seen.

Friday Roundup: A Busy Day Ahead

It's been a busy day in the world of tech, with a number of announcements and developments that are sure to keep you on your toes. In our Friday roundup, we'll be taking a look at some of the biggest stories from the past 24 hours.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday's the 18th and it's this sort of only business that's it know the categories and it's also like it's not about business news at the end of the year in December there's no there's no business bad news the most important of all business news Apple news Apple might be feeling a little bit of a pinch in terms of their business model because they're doing something that they haven't done for a long long time 1992 however you Krista two years old baby Apple to speak at CES conference for the first time in decades what could they possibly be talking about we are gonna talk about the $50,000 Mac probe it's a new Apple pencil well it's not I can tell you that Krista for sure because it's not a booth they don't have a booth they're going to do a security presentation it seems like their new sales pitch is and in fact they've erected a they have a billboard I think it says what happens on the iPhone stays on the iPhone or something like that cause Vegas chief privacy officer Roundtable oh man the irony here is super delicious someone should make some ads for that at the CES thing but it's just like the needs of all the starlets what happens on iPhone stays on fortune this is just this is amazing cuz there's another Apple story but it's not that it's not the Mac Pro it's not the 50 cals lower micro we're gonna start with that that's let's start with the Mac Pro it's another Bloomberg story Apple's new Mac Pro can cost fifty two thousand dollars that's without the wheel so I watched the tl today I think that's Jonathan Morrison I don't know I'm now slightly paranoid I got that wrong anyway the cinnamon score was 10k on the new Mac Pro like he had the 28 core monster that score is garbage literal garbage I can do better than that in my sleep you personally yeah I'm not a computer well no I mean I think I saw on Twitter lioness ordered one for anything case was like twenty five thousand yeah yeah so they do point out in the bloomberg article it is there is a lot of power and that fifty two thousand dollar computer but as one who points out I you probably it probably wouldn yeah to replicate it the most of the expense is gonna be the RAM and RAM is super expensive right now because people are buying RAM for servers so that density is so if you set aside the RAM the Intel 28 core in this thermal configuration apparently leaves a lot to be desired because a 10k sent a bench score that CPU should be scoring at least 15k like 12 for 12 to 15 K I would say so something is wrong like they literally but 28 core CPU in a server would score much better the other thing is Apple has their FPGA and the FPGA field programmable gate array is made for video acceleration and that's maybe the special sauce but that's not worth $50,000 and that's something you can't replicate on PC yet but that's the only thing it's the only thing the console perspective on it can't you get there's a there's a lot of really nice cars you can get for less you get to the Tesla Model 3 for Less certainly cyber truck and gets a truck fat so yeah I don't there's not Apple software's not that good well let me say theoretically it's a project for that it might never be five will say I trust Elon Musk everybody does for some reason and that's not the only thing about that apples see the Apple comes with a very special screen like no it doesn't come with it the pentose at thousand dollars you get that one the screen an extra a thousand for the coating not the screen itself oh yeah yeah the screen is five grand the stand is over a thousand just to say it because the magnets and there's a special thousand dollar coating which makes it more visible and certain Lighting's situations which is great yeah but you have to be very careful with it only clean the probe display with our polishing cloth the Apple high-end monitor it's meant to Paris Mac but you need to be only clean it with our cloth because reasons water should never touch this according to Apple what about Windex no god no do you want your house to explode Krista okay please don't Windex anything else Clorox wipes something just let the dust collector gives it a nice like you know atmosphere right now when you're when we're talking about Apple and the ability of any company to sell a fifty six thousand dollar computer you might have to ask yourself what's wrong with this market could it be that Apple controls a little too much of it and Tim Cook would say of course we do and there's nothing wrong with that Apple's CEO Tim Cook says monopolies aren't bad if they aren't abused and then goes on to try to make an argument that is really like just out of touch mega-yachts are bad for the environment unless they're abused if you don't sale them yeah hey yeah he makes no argument that's just ridiculous and the argument is yes uh monopolies are bad but Apple isn't because we don't do that we're good we're good monopolies then Apple should open up so that they can make standards like okay Apple is a market leader lead by creating a standard that everyone else can implement well they can just join into the Apple ecosystem Wendell geez he also called low price of fifty six thousand dollar cycle yeah he also followed up with have you guys seen what Facebook and Google's been doing which one they're the real so yeah that's oh the other Apple story about the the lawsuit is what should be next where they're suing the CPU architect guy because they did that should be is that in business I thought it was now it's all my stuff they're gonna know oh yeah so Apple is like have you seen what Google and you know all these other people are doing that's terrible I mean it's like it's like we win you know we went to bat we went hard to back when we talked about so we talked about new via a while back the guy that was one of their big chip makers he said I'm out I'll see you guys later I'm gonna start this new server chip organization and we're going to get in on this cloud stuff and we're gonna run this is our thing an Apple wasn't happy Apple asou the iPhone CPU design ace after he quit to run a data center chip upstart new via CEO accused of breaching contract with Cupertino and fires back in court so the amazing thing here is Apple has apparently at least according to this guy's court filings you surreptitiously use their iPhone access to find text messages and iCloud messages of people that were talking to him because they've got stuff in their court filings that they should not have if they're protecting users privacy with now that this this the guy that left Apple was courting his old team and his old employees and stuff like that at Apple and so Apple is like no no you're not allowed to do that you've got to stop that and Apple seems to be saying that because their current employees or employees that they have the right to just snoop through their phone and do all this stuff and like defeat like all the stuff that Apple said that you know your personal stuff from the whole FBI thing what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone yeah except unless you're on the campus no the guy was his name what an amazing juxtaposition cheer is fantastic look at it thrown he's even doing like the the evil King would like it yeah am I not allowed to kill these people so the guy who left his argument which seems like a pretty good one is that what they're describing is non-compete which turns out in California isn't the thing yeah so but how did they get the messages how did they know how did they figure it out well something called the iCloud they're right there sitting on the cloud it's under it's under that chair he just goes down and rummages through it whatever he feels like let's see what's in the box please lord I promise I won't leave we will find now we talked last time about the iPhone the security thing about the iPhone encryption key leak if you're an apple and you want to blow the whistle like did you do a search through people's stuff to try to find the key anybody that was talking about it anybody that was doing that kind of thing I think that ethically Apple has already demonstrated that they are willing to rifle through people's documents and messages and things like that when it serves their interests now Apple may be a monopoly that is on the rise or maybe riding the crest would be a better description of that I know if they're how much growth is left there but if we want to look a little bit further down the monopoly calendar we might look to team blue because the wave is crashing for them at this point and it seems like for the first time ever they're actually like taking an inventory and it's the acceptance phase out of grief Intel CEO that's Bob Swan wants to destroy the thinking about having 90% share and the CPU market talks 10 nanometre problems and 7 nanometre Road math and more long story short you know what Global Foundries did when they were like you know people spending money on like seven nanometer they're spending a lot of money we have a license to print money now why wouldn't we just go ahead and do that so app Intel is basically saying look you know we don't we don't need 90% of the desktop CPU market and I guess it's because I think these products out there that's that's the that's the undercurrent under telling the underwriting their Bob Swanson says look we can own the silicon market we can make things other than CPUs like modems oh wait that didn't go well memory oh wait that's going to my car crap maybe we can make storage devices all it's mic on - dammit you think that he's going to propose marriage to Lisa sue yes she's already married I think to do it you have to do to secure power oh yeah 10 nanometer has gone quite quite sideways now when I play with my cats when they chase the string crouton will really go hard and like do bleeps and flips and dives for the string but when he misses it he'll always stop and just nonchalantly like clean his face a little bit I was gonna come over here anyway I had nothing to do with that you'd miss that string that's how I feel like this 90% market share things like you know we don't want a 90% market share it wasn't really helping us well you know we're done with it yeah I uh you know I got to wonder if the shareholders liked it the next shareholder call I really can't wait because the shareholders are probably gonna scream bloody murder cuz what's going on well perhaps he'll just lie to them is that certainly something that you do especially when you want for example a tax break billions of dollars in taxes so you might say hey we would like to have this tax break this will create jobs and lawmakers like tho jobs the people want those all right give it to them but then 18 t he said the Trump tax cuts would create thousands of jobs actually ATP has been laying off people like crazy yesterday the 18 T CEO Randall Stephenson was promising on live television that if Trump followed through on his tax cuts the company would dramatically boost investment and thereby creating thousands of jobs not an entry-level jobs mind you but 7,000 jobs of people putting fiber in the ground hardhat jobs and like building out their infrastructure which makes no sense if they just bought a satellite company like why would you buy a satellite company if you were planning on upgrading your infrastructure which could deliver the same content that you're currently delivering through satellites I still sense walkies are not from Indore trusted quit this basically the same thing plays out almost every time there's a merger yeah it's like oh if we can get this merger we're gonna create all these jobs and it's like well you know if I think about this logically wouldn't a merger almost always remove jobs because there'd be redundancy kind of like no you're crazy and it always plays out the same way so the trade unions you know we couldn't get the data out of AT&T on how many jobs they've created including if that number is a negative number but the trade unions all the trade unions have save us how many people have AT&T laid off since the merger 23,000 23,000 so far and at this meeting the shareholder meeting or whatever at AT&T he said we're looking at reducing staff by about four percent so more layoffs are coming and we're also looking at cutting benefits and you know just anywhere we can save some money gotta save that money because you paid less in taxes three billion dollars per year speaking of cool guys Verizon can't quite get up to 18 see numbers but they're trying Verizon media plans to layoff 150 people this week oh you may have heard the news about yahoogroups shutting down and Verizon really like that so those were shut down now and Verizon also blocked the internet archive team from archiving them for free like what a terrible vindictive move like Verizon literally just how like the you know never attribute to malice what can be explained by simple incompetence but that seems very malicious and speaking of mergers the problem here can be traced back to earth earth was a bit of a mistake probably shouldn't have done that there was another one we got right like the whole satellite company thing like why would 18 to you by satellite company doesn't make any sense and in more bad business news uber has had nothing but bad news in 2019 I mean it has been a rough year for them but this one is bad not just in terms of business but in terms of literally everything perception of uber their Krista you have to think twice now right I generally don't take kübra anyway but I would definitely not take one alone exactly uber loses 1.4 billion in value after reporting thousands of sexual assaults and its rides that's crazy that's uh how would you not like I assume that's the driver assaulting the the person riding with them I don't think they big initiated it could just be someone you're riding with - they broke it down by numbers I think it was like 200 and some rapes among all of those and the rest were attempted rapes groping and you know just like harassment so yeah lyft also showing some bad numbers when it comes to that I think the problem I think probably I don't know this to be true but I have to think it's mostly driver on passenger right I would think but I mean I don't know it could be some frat bro it's like oh you want to share an uber back to the dorm it's like oh okay and then you know between two riders yeah I wouldn't think so but so I don't know what I don't know the statistics not telling also if you're a driver an uber driver do you not get involved yeah I would think you would be like hey dude don't but I guess that's why they're just gonna record everything now it's like I don't know maybe they'll give me a one-star I can't I can't risk it but I wonder is that rate the same with taxis like do taxi services report the same number we should have a lot of data on that though yeah that would be a good research piece for somebody else for somebody else not us somebody should ask that question I don't see now if it's the driver I would say no because I think boobers inability to vet the people that work for them and the kind of person that's attracted to you Bert you know like freelance set my own schedule time that kind of people would be less likely to you know like need the job Esper Utley like a cab driver would also the people who own the the tokens for the cab's like in New York they're not gonna do anything to mess with that that's their retirement that's true so Oracle every time we talk about Oracle and we had one positive Oracle news now in the history of level windowless - Oracle that I am - I don't love them but yeah I'm saying even without your you know Oracle is literally one rich named Larry Ellison a very litigious so it turns out that Oracle may have made some promises that they couldn't keep and it's all coming out in a very embarrassing way former Oracle product manager says he was forced out for refusing to deceive customers now he's suing the business database Genesis that ain't so they're filing a lawsuit so it looks like it sure does look like Oracle sold vaporware to universities and some other other things and the product manager was like alright I'm gonna be in charge of these accounts and then he started peeling back the linoleum and it's like wait a minute we we don't even have the products that we've solved these people and his executives were like well we can build it it's fine no if they gave him a dashboard right so like if you're a good salesman you don't just disappear once the sale is over you go back and make sure that people are satisfied and he was doing that he was going back and what was the word they used all the accounts were in this special status which meant that there were constant complaints because nothing worked and he started looking into it and it turns out that the stuff he sold to do the good work Chris oh how does this how's this for vaporware see I was thinking that looks more like a Christmas it does kind of look Christmassy it's almost like there's a snowflake behind it here or you know like the the star like that's what the star bet I am yeah it's kind of disappointing why did the savior of the world but you know wait did I say called Larry else I mean I meant called Larry Ellison Cle or also why did they shorten business I bet that that titles already formed I bet that title rewriting it that'll be one to watch I can't wait to see how this like so here's how this this Court case is gonna go this court case is gonna be hushed up and the dudes gonna get a cash settlement if it is worse than he alleges if it is not quite as bad as he alleges or if he's making stuff up for the dismissal then we'll see a play out in court longer Oracle legal team is pretty busy yeah I mean are they gonna get to take any time off during the holidays so we talked about how the business news is almost universally bad mm-hmm I mean I guess could be good or bad with the whole Apple cheesegrater story depending on where you stand on the Apple thing otherwise it's been pretty bad so we do have one little nugget of happiness this week lawsuit has forced CenturyLink to stop charging an Internet cost recovery fee someone brings refunds to customers but applies only in Washington State so imagine the situation where CenturyLink says hey we'll sell you Internet for $50 a month and then you get your bill and it's like $60 a month and you look at it it's got all these little fees in it or the fees was internet cost recovery and it's like what is that and when a lawyer examines that and figures out what that cost is it is century links cost of bringing you the service so if ya think about it like this you went to McDonald's and you bought a cheeseburger and your cheeseburger was one of their dollar yeah and there was a 25 cent beef fee on your receipt okay we had to get the beef somewhere what what are you arguing about it yeah so the cost recovery fee is the costs that they incur bringing you to service and I guess the other money that you pay is just the profit margin effect they also had some there was a $4.99 fee for something else that they stopped them from charging but again just in Washington and the dollar 99 was cheap in Washington and everywhere else it's uh seven is it I think three but it's more whatever Oh a 250 sports fee was the other one why because sports it's just sports don't think about it 49 and the sports see of 240 just crazy the sports teams at the CEOs son school needed new uniforms that's what that sports fee is well it's the Christmas season you might be purchasing a phone for a loved one all right maybe if you've got a lot of money because phones are expensive but here's the thing phones keep getting more expensive but people don't seem pleased willing to put up that money listen 10% of Americans are actually buying $1000 plus smart phones yeah sorry Apple I think this is what and also with my Galaxy Note fold while we figure that figured out right Galaxy Note and fold yeah that was China yeah this is not super old news but you can get an amazing phone for like four or five hundred dollars but what's gonna happen now these kind of headlines are coming out is they're gonna start pushing updates that make older phones okay well actually the next headline kind of flies in the face of this now that one did filter it to the US yeah so maybe this is somewhere else in the world but still other story was updated samsung has sold a million galaxies fold smartphones according to TechCrunch but Samsung actually issued a press release and said oh that's not a no not actually true we didn't sell a million phones sorry we will we met 100 yeah they didn't they didn't sell a lot we forgot to carry the one well have you gotten your phone yet the new one no that's never coming that's a few people have gotten there's nobody in the u.s. got theirs I don't I don't know what the problem is they say they're shipping new phones every week I haven't even got the tracking number it's the FX tech it's the Android phone with the keyboard and has reasonable specs it's not like the top of the line or anything but it's an Android it's got a keyboard a physical keyboard and I really want that to be a thing and it seems like they got enough customers for it to be a thing and I just need to get to logistics worked out you've been waiting for that for like three months are you in the anger phase longer suppose I'm more disappointed than angry but it is super annoying you're gonna what's the last one is it acceptance yeah acceptance is no acceptance is probably not gonna happen I'll probably follow chargebacks denial anger disappointment there's something else and then it is the bar and I'm gonna do the chargeback yeah that's yeah well Facebook and Google have long been kind of this dream from a young tech students point of view right I applied when I graduated I want to go and work with these magical companies or they have these cool campuses and they take care of you and they do everything except wipe your butt so you can keep cranking out that code to make them money and maybe they brought in the the people who have to watch the the rapes and murders the censors for this year because the ratings have changed Facebook and Google have dropped out of the top ten best places to work list I wonder why I've been a lot of changes internally Google that we've reported on a very slow boiling of the Frog Dragonfly stuff they put a quick sear on that frog and then Facebook is like you know if Facebook has to write a bot to have to help their employees cope with difficult questions from their family at all the holiday season things are probably not looking good so not surprising unfortunate poor sundar has to deal with that all by himself now - just in time for to fall out of the list everybody was up in arms this week because the new Xbox looks like wait for it a box Microsoft's next Xbox is Xbox series X coming holiday 2020 what kind of branding is that it just it looks like the core it's a PC it looks like a PC well that's the consul's have basically been pcs for a while now yeah but for me it's the naming convention that drives me crazy with xbox now Microsoft would not confirm if they're working on more than one Xbox in the series yeah but they're gonna have that streaming one now they did allude this one might be able to use the cloud stuff like stadia as well eventually yeah oh selling point they got a new controller they claim that this one is gonna be a lot better on the thermals because there's so much more room in there and yes you can turn it over and use it in a flat mode this is exciting if you like consoles but this is not super exciting more important from the game Awards its sons of the forest new forest content actually a whole new game looks like there's so many people get you know watch that trailer and after you talked about that and I forgot how disturbing those because it's naked girls but like scary naked girls accepted the way that they did the animation and the trailer I was like when women are experiencing intense pain because they're turning into a monster they don't do a sexy dance first we'll see that's why that's why it's so scary to me because you're taking something that's usually a good association sexy naked girl and then you're mixing it with monster yeah I'm really excited the first Forest game so I'm excited about that that was the only thing that was worth commenting on from the Game Awards even though they announced that console also at the Game Awards anyway we've talked a lot about the brighter repair war and of course Apple is the vanguard in that you know they're fighting as hard as they can to stop it but we have weird names like John Deere popping up as well Tesla kind of part of that whole thing and here's a new one that's not a new company at all but it's interesting that after years of having a an authorized repair program they're saying no not anymore hi Colin yeah the camera people they're killing their authorized repair program if there's going to be two places in America I checked New York and somewhere in California you'll have to mail your your camera there to be fixed you can forget anything else being an unauthorized repair anywhere else that's down from 12 I guess it was 12 plus 2 because those two still existed yeah so the 12 shops that were authorized really say they interviewed some of them and they spoke under anonymity because they were terrified with Nikon and they said we have heard anything about this we don't know we're not sure what's happening but that would be bad good news you've been it's like we fixed the glitch we're not sending you parts or documentation anymore so you know we talked about the the Apple thing with the guy who's going to make his own server chips and that's kind of like it's like a weird how much ownership do you have of that guy's intellectual property can you really stop him from going and doing his own thing and that same exact thing is playing out between Netflix and Fox and this is a weird one to call I'm not sure which way the makes sense here Netflix has been ordered to stop poaching Fox employees so this is really fascinating Netflix the thing that Netflix is doing this a little different here is that they were actively recruiting Fox employees like specific Fox employees in specific positions like hey come to work for us come do this you know come to you whatever pay you more yeah double yeah they're literally slugged working it and the court has said no you can't you can't do that if I guess if somebody of their own volition is like hey Netflix I'm thinking about coming to work for you come do stuff that's somehow different then Netflix saying hey we want to you know like you need to come work for us come on like let's harass the employees or whatever what was the reason given for like not allowing this okay well that's actually a pretty good one because Fox had a contract with them where it was a two-year contract but at the end of the two years Fox had the option to send it for two years at Fox's discretion right so and then at the end they just left and didn't give Fox that opportunity so on one hand that seems like you know that's the the California thing that you're not allowed to do the non-compete right yeah but at the same time these are high level people these are people whose lawyers looked over these contracts they understood what they were signing for sure yeah it's not the same as like a McDonald's employee being screwed around so all right I mean you signed a contract it'll be interesting if this this could upend California non-compete type of laws depending on because it does there's a lot of similarities between this and the Apple case in that regard with with respect to the type and capacity of the employees I don't know there's part of me that's like on one hand like if you're an employee and you're really good at your job and someone offers you more money you should be able to like take that but at the same time if you signed a contract it's like maybe not yeah I don't know it's definitely great engagement challenge what do you think about these millionaires fighting amongst themselves it's gonna be a two paragraphs comment about like the green alien well a lot of people last week who would who were commenting a lot of people cuz obviously like the military people you know are a little maybe a little over-caffeinated and when you said that only the Air Force Wow yeah and we clarified it two seconds later but that's the the pause and rant crowd sorry it's maybe just watch the the rest of the story before you do I'm not saying don't do it just as a tax payer it seems like that will be a tax savings if we didn't have redundant staff well speaking of taxing San Francisco went in and wiped out the e scooter business they got rid of a bunch of them and they only allowed various cific ones to stay and now we might see why this one in particular got to stay there might have been some votes handed out here spin San Francisco Steph becomes the first East gouta workforce to unionize so spin yeah you can get spin scooters in they're not like high heels but they're not flat either clogs are like a little strappy they don't look like scooter shoes well she's play going to work what what do you what Footwear yeah she's going to work at the modeling agency who hired her to do this picture so i I've lost our train of thought now to focus on basically you know this is the only scooter business in the world to have a union I think Ford owns this one oh so that makes sense it's the Auto Workers yeah these are the people not just the people in the office but there's also a whole fleet of people who go and like rescue the wounded scooters and get them on the Chargers and clean them up and stuff service and stuff like that they're also a union what what happened to all the ones that were in our town like all the bikes and stuff like that I haven't seen anything that's true I haven't seen a lot they probably just figured out that it was gonna work or they've all been stolen at this point and they're probably all in pawn shops would be brazen enough to sell the line if you got like a $2 things spray paint and then sold the bike for this is a lemon bike look what I found it's fine that's the grapefruit brand they're really good so speaking of East scooters some a scooter companies were like ah this is the future let's get into this business and they started raising money and in this case it wasn't a rent the scooter business it was like buy your scooter right don't waste all your money just renting them buy it make an investment in yourself but unfortunately things did not go as expected a scooter company unicorn goes bust after spending big on Facebook ads I don't understand like that this is infuriating so there was there were why like 250 people that bought the 366 dollar scooter six something wasn't it there was 531 pounds six hundred ninety nine dollars three hundred three hundred fifty people paid $700 for a scooter and they raised 150 thousand dollars on their startup thing and then they spent all the money on ads to get people more people to buy them it's Facebook ads so they thought hey we'll spend all this money on advertising and more people will buy the scooters and everything will work out except no one bought another scooter look at that price point you'd be wanting to sell bikes it was out some Facebook ads like did you see the level one reports on Facebook ads and the efficacy of Facebook ads because I can tell you it's not good but here's the thing Krista that we might not have made clear these people aren't getting their money back yeah not only that they're not getting the scooters or their money back okay they didn't use the profit from the scooters they used all the scooter money to do to do ads sounds like a rousing success for the ad agency Facebook maybe yeah I should have sorted these stories a little bit better because we have some really some really bad ones at the end I always try to make have like a good one at the end this one actually probably should have been cut but whatever dear let's talk about it Sony dance is playing the published PlayStation games on non PlayStation consoles that's about it that's it headlines so well this is so the thing about the PlayStation the only reason you would ever buy a Playstation is because you want to play blood-borne right Sony maybe sees the writing on the wall Sony exclusives first party games that's not a first party game but exclusives to the platform but now they're saying this MLB game the show will actually be on other consoles for the first time ever the name seems like a trash game the show a male be the show I don't understand the appeal of baseball like videogames but my cousin's love them so yeah I haven't played a baseball video game since the early 2000 so I'm not sure what the current technology is like a pretty good simulation who knows I'm sure some people in the comments will disagree oh this is an amazing story to end on and finally continue I don't care for Microsoft teams especially when you're switching between teams it hangs up about 1 in 5 times but considering the alternatives better than Scott that's way better than Scott so but I don't know if this crowd will accept it nothing will replace IRC Microsoft teams is the first office app for Linux so that's a little misleading that's ok it's a lot misleading teams runs on the web and so like even the local desktop application is just an app that wraps the browser so of course this works on Linux it's just chromium in a wrapper and so it's like for Linux the real question is bummer Bert still an available sticker set I'm assuming so bummer Bert is a fantastic series of illustrations that exists only in teams and they're just really depressing pictures of an office guy crying about his job and how hopeless everything is there's literally like 20 illustrations of that that you can just post into teams they'd probably date in mind the most used you know thoughts and expressions on teams and that's what those work it's the darkest stuff there's one that's like I'll never finish it's hopeless everything is pointless that like they're all really dark I don't know how they made it into the program that sounds like my feeling so I'm using teams all right what do we got for Friday Friday's the I know that well actually there's gonna be four on Friday I met with Pro design in here we have one design article and based on Chris's reaction she didn't read it I didn't listen I had three-year-olds this morning one of them sneezed in my face it's been a rough morning it gave birth to three year olds that must have a traumatic top three year olds so we will have what have we done yet social media robot robot and nonsense and design one design Christy you got a save by\n"