The companies doing the most damage right now are also the ones performing the best on paper. This week: Meta and Microsoft cut a combined 23,000 jobs while committing nearly $700 billion to AI infrastructure — and said the quiet part out loud about why. Microsoft's three-year Copilot branding strategy collapsed into a 3% adoption rate, a misleading advertising ruling, and a quiet rollback that's still ongoing. The laptop silicon market in 2026 is the most genuinely competitive it's been in twenty years, with Apple, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm all making real claims on the same buyer. And OnePlus — once Android's best challenger brand — is watching its India CEO walk out and Europe go dark.Plus Rivian, RingConn, and GoPro. First episode of The Architecture from Tech Between the Lines.
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ColoradoJustin is the founder of Tech Between the Lines. He covers Apple strategy and the broader tech landscape with 15+ years of enterprise IT experience, the perspective that comes from actually deploying the products everyone else just reviews.
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