Connected 592: The Rickies (March 2026)
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Feb 26, 2026 A lively prediction game about upcoming product launches and keynote theatrics. They debate display privacy tech, chiplet designs, and which Macs might get multicolor finishes. There are bold bets on new iPads, displays, and an affordable A‑series MacBook. They also react to report card fallout and breaking streaming deal news.
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Real World Use Of Privacy Screen Protectors
- Federico describes seeing privacy protector films widely used in Italy at dance school and on public transit, noting they degrade display quality for frontal viewers.
- He contrasts that with Samsung's integrated approach which might avoid the same quality tradeoff if implemented well.
Hosted Claw Alternatives Can't Match Local Power
- A wave of 'Claw' style personal-agent products is emerging, but many are limited by running inside hosted sandboxes rather than on users' machines.
- Federico argues local-first tools like OpenClaw remain more flexible because they access local tokens and data.
Sandboxed Generated Apps Risk Public Tokens
- Perplexity Computer and Cloud Cowork build web UIs that generate apps, but those run in iframes with public links and baked-in tokens, raising privacy and usability concerns.
- Federico exemplified this with a Todoist dashboard that exposed an API token and couldn't use local storage for per-user auth.