We’re around with no plans to shut down!

Teenage Engineering is a hardware design firm that Nothing contracts with for hardware design. They aren’t a division of Nothing and they don’t work on just earbuds.

https://mutts.com/products/strip-101100?variant=41126280331421

You might be interested in the documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight” about the engineers who keep the Voyagers alive.

What is that music app?

Beeper Mini registered your phone number with Apple and connected directly to the iMessage servers. That version was killed after three days of usage. The mac mini farm still works but that’s just through an apple ID email address.

iOS 17 uses a small gpt-2 based model for predictive text.

The layoffs are related to the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr.

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/bandcamps-layoffs-songtradr-1235758123/