Eshwar Nag

Xbox needs to move faster, deepen our connection with the community, and address friction for both players and developers. Today, we promoted leaders who helped build Xbox, while also bringing in new voices to help push us forward. This balance is important as we get the business back on track. As part of this shift, you’ll see us begin to retire features that don’t align with where we’re headed. We will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console.

iOS 27 might add three new editing tools to the Photos app under Apple Intelligence, including Extend, Enhance, and Reframe. Source: Mark Gurman

There's a lot of noise right now about how offline experiences are the next big thing. everyone wants a piece of the "experience economy." and i wanted to believe it. then i went to one. it was a holi event, on paper exactly the kind of thing I should have loved. in reality it was a venue, some music, and a lot of people holding up phones. that was the event. the whole thing was built for the story, not for the room. no activities, no thought, nothing that made the three hours feel different from any other three hours. just backdrops. and it made me realise how a lot of what's being sold as an offline experience right now is just a camera set in a room. that's it. i'm not against optimising for social. i get it. that's how people find out you exist. but there's an order to it. the experience has to be there first. the pictures come from the thing being good. not the other way around. what that event taught me is that i don't want to go back. because nothing was actually happening. so when people ask me if the offline economy is really having a moment, maybe. but only if the people building these things remember that an experience is what happens before someone reaches for their phone. if you start from the phone and work backwards, you don't have an experience.