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Weiran Zhang

Hi, I'm Weiran Zhang. I work as a Senior Engineering Manager at Capital One. I have a passion for technology and building thriving software teams. This blog is where I write about things I find interesting. You can follow me on Mastodon.


The only way I can understand the current valuation of Amazon is if they’re expected to eventually gain a monopoly over the entire internet retail market, then they could raise prices and make more profits.

Is that even legal?


Brian Klug from Anandtech has discovered that a reference to an as yet unreleased Apple TV 3,2 found in the latest iOS 6 firmware suggests that this new version of the Apple TV will contain the A5X chip from the iPad 3rd generation.

If true, the only reason I can think why Apple put such a powerfup system on a chip into an Apple TV is gaming.

It’s worth noting that current Apple TV’s have a binned A5 SOC, with one of the CPU cores disabled.


Rene Ritchie at iMore imagining how a larger iPhone would work. If Apple were to make a larger iPhone, I would guess a 4.8-inch screen with…


The hysteria surrounding Apple’s business performance and its market positioning has led to perceptions about the state of Apple becoming…


Oracle doesn’t seem to be able to retire Java gracefully.


It seems Ballmer is making a lot former Microsoft employees his enemies. Although I’m not sure I agree with Kempin’s asssessment that…


Max Rudberg has a well-reasoned and moderate article on mobile design. The hardware and UI have different roles to play. The hardware is…


I have come to believe that the true cause is something bigger than all of this. I think the right answer is that Apple just fails to pass…


A lot of times I was short at my hedge fund, I would create a level of activity before hand that could drive the futures, it doesn’t take…


Mark Rogowsky at Forbes has a great article about yesterday’s Wall Street Journal ‘weaker iPhone demand’ report. The latest rumors about…


Yesterday, Wall Street Journal’s claim that Apple had “halved” orders for iPhone 5 displays has caused a few stirs around here. Are the…


Nice timeline of Apple’s products by Pop Chart Lab.