Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@poniewozik This is wishcasting but I really do believe that spell will be broken. Angry guy tweeting who doesn’t live in the White House anymore is just an angry guy tweeting. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@soniagot @MattNavarra @BernardoPajares @MartinSFP @Recode @verge Thank you Sonia! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@swodinsky @scottlucas dear brand, fuck you! and fix my: 1) airline reservation 2) hotel reservation 3) rental car reservation (is this a thing still?) 4) wifi — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

(But there's also a world where the guy who runs Salesforce is really into buying things, and if they happen to be things that regular people know and care about, as opposed to behind-the-scenes software, that's definitely a plus.) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

(I mean, there's definitely a world where an enterprise sales tool company buys the thing you use to send your coworkers passive aggressive messages and both things get better.) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

(Remember when Salesforce was going to buy Twitter and people here were straining to explain why it would make sense? Data.... something?) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@ShiraOvide The old cable system is very much on the minds of all parties. Roku/Apple/amazon etc want to be the mvpd; hbo/nbc/etc want to be retailers not wholesalers. — PolitiTweet.org

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(Or dusting off your old Apple TV and plugging it into your Roku TV, as we do. It's not hard labor.) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

All of which makes sense for the companies involved, and is a pain in the ass for you. On the other hand! The fact that you're reading this means you are capable of figuring out workarounds, like casting from your phone to your TV. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

HBO/Roku is the highest stakes version of this fight but we are seeing it throughout streaming TV. We'll continue to see it because there's a lot on the line, and programmers and distributors don't want to lock in long-term deals. https://t.co/iaej1gLd1P — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Wonder Woman in your home on the same day it's in theaters is a very, very big deal for HBO Max. So not getting it on the number one streaming platform is also a very big deal for HBO Max, WarnerMedia, @jasonkilar and his boss at AT&T. https://t.co/DMkdJdib5u — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Here is a press release from HBO Max about Wonder Woman 1984, which also points out that we are fully into shopping season and HBO Max is still not on Roku. Not technically impossible for the two sides to reach a deal by Christmas Day but increasingly unlikely. https://t.co/oy2nHYAS1X — PolitiTweet.org

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@dherman76 bc this can't be replicated often — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@ShiraOvide Fascinating because unlike IG, Facebook doesn't have any core competence in... whatever Whatsapp's commercial future is going to be. It has enormous resources and motivation, which could certainly be enough. But it will be breaking new ground. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sarafischer: .@axios Media Trends: ⭐️ Scoop: Politico stars plot new Playbook 📩 Patch is launching a "Substack for local" 🏄 Chernin in… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @oneunderscore__: Q hasn't posted in 17 days. He's only posted three short, low-effort posts since Election Day. Ron Watkins, who can p… — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a riveting story from @zeynep about the Chinese researchers who made Covid vaccines possible. https://t.co/tp6FS8WkYd — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnNess Yeah, I had a Twitter discussion about this with the reporter. They definitely sold it as the end of blended - some stories didn't even add the qualifier. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnNess Yes, the announcement was quite misleading. Spent some time wondering if it was intentionally so or just ineptitude. A frequent question with this administration. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @mims: "More than half of all mall-based department stores will close by the end of 2021" In 2011 1.2 million people worked in malls In… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@mims LTE apple watch is 100% unacceptable iPhone replacement. I tried to do this for a story a couple years ago, and Apple insisted that it wouldn't work. They were right! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@gabrielsnyder It’s announce a plan that you can’t deliver on. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@gabrielsnyder It’s a half-plan. — PolitiTweet.org

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@elizashapiro Right! But it’s not the “effective end of hybrid”, which is a thing I read in the New York Times, not on Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@elizashapiro The only way 5 days a week can work is if it’s only available to a small percentage of students, right? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@elizashapiro That makes sense. But since brownstone Brooklyn and Manhattan kids were the ones most likely to be using hybrid, seems like there’s less change from beginning of the year than BdB is selling. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@elizashapiro Eliza, what percent of grade schools have the capacity (teachers + space) to move to 5 days a week? Or maybe more useful: What percent of kids who are in hybrid now will have the ability to go 5 days? — PolitiTweet.org

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The fact that all of this is being communicated incrementally and haphazardly is unfortunately par for the course for the Mayor of New York City. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

But we are not in that world, so NYC will move resources from older kids to younger ones. It one way, it makes sense. In another way, it’s symbolic of all the shitty choices we have to make this year. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Some of this is basic math - the city doesn’t have any more resources to teach kids at school and at home than it did two weeks ago. In a sane world we would rush resources to the schools to really reopen them (and subsidize restaurants/bars etc to stay closed through spring). — PolitiTweet.org