This isn’t really a common-folk-vs-tech-bros story. It’s about one specific part of Seattle’s tech culture reacting to AI hype. People outside that circle often have very different incentives.

This is a surprisingly bold but overdue move. AWS and Google Cloud offering private, high-speed multicloud connectivity could finally clean up the DIY networking sprawl a lot of teams have been stuck with. If it works as described, latency, billing complexity, and day-to-day maintenance all get noticeably simpler.

Seven years leading AI at Apple, and Siri never meaningfully improved for most users. Leadership changes alone won’t fix that, but maybe this is finally Apple acknowledging that its voice/AI strategy needs a reset.