This is why Daring Fireball is an invaluable tech blog and not an Apple fanboy site.

Arguably, Google Maps is better than Apple Maps, Gmail is better than Apple Mail, Google Drive is better than iCloud, Google Docs is better than iWork, and Google Photos can “surprise and delight” better than Apple Photos. Even with the risks.

If Apple truly cares about our privacy then it should stop talking about how important it is and start building superior cloud-based services we want to use — then it can protect us.

The source article from Verge has a great headline:

First Click: Tim Cook brings a knife to a cloud fight

The second part of the three part Elon Musk series, How Tesla Will Change Your Life, came out. Required reading, but it is long.

Unlike the first part, this is a classic Wait But Why type post. A hugely deep dive into an important topic. The topic was Tesla, the table of contents is:

1. The Story of Energy
2. The Story of Cars
3. The Story of Tesla

Because that’s really the order you need to follow to understand this huge topic.

As I read it I was looking for the tl;dr; summary. There isn’t one, but here were my key quotes:

I didn’t feel strongly about this topic before I spent a lot of recent time learning about it—and now that I have, I kind of think the only way someone could feel positive about a gas car future is if they’re misinformed, personally financially interested in gas cars, hopelessly old-fashioned, drunk with politics, or kind of just being a dick

The reason Tesla is worth studying is that it’s an up-close example of how change happens—even sometimes in an industry that hasn’t moved in a century.

Just read the whole thing. And I can’t wait for part three…

Meanwhile, this is what Musk spends two days of his week on. With the rest of his time, he’s trying to make humanity a multi-planetary species—a goal that makes his Tesla mission seem like starting a grapefruit stand.