Shopify is moving its mobile apps from React Native back to separate Swift and Kotlin codebases. The 2020 bet paid off by letting non-mobile devs ship once for both platforms, but coding agents have now made writing the same feature twice cheap enough that native's performance and platform fit win.
August consumer prices rose faster than July's as energy costs pushed through, the read markets had flagged as one of the more consequential in years. Wall Street opened higher anyway, with the 10-year yield already near 5% on oil and rate-hike fears.
Daniel Hook, Holtzbrinck's chief scientific officer, uses the small relief of a driverless ride with nobody to talk to as a lens on AI in research: frictionless tools teach people to prefer their own company, and collaboration is the first thing that quietly erodes. About 10 minutes.
Salesforce seems comfortable with a future where people reach its enterprise apps and data through an AI chatbot like Claude instead of the app itself. Figma is betting the opposite way, that the interface still matters. Two public companies, two incompatible theories of where the software layer goes.