Trung Phan writes about business, media, and culture, covering topics like Bluey, Apple's packaging, Steve Jobs and taste, and Garmin.
HN commenters cite his Bluey versus Cocomelon piece on children's attention and use his Economist cover and Apple posts to discuss market timing and brand taste.
Apple without Ive and Jobs increasingly has a taste problem. Everything from their ads to things like this are just in really poor taste, and aren’t something that they would have done 15 years ago because they would have thought it was beneath their brand.
I like Apple, so I’m really hoping they bring on someone to solve this. Otherwise they’re on track to be the same as every other tasteless tech company.
More on taste and Apple: https://www.readtrung.com/p/steve-jobs-rick-rubin-and-taste
I don’t think The Economist has that kind of power. More likely that when they make covers like these every normie feels that way and it’s going the other way soon, as it has exhausted every buyer or seller and it has reached the ends of your earth and your Mom and Dad even feel that way.
https://www.readtrung.com/p/the-economist-cover-curse-explained
Cocomelon is particularly bad and weaponized intentionally against kid attention: https://www.readtrung.com/p/why-i-love-bluey-and-hate-cocomelon