Last time I was in Dubai, Telegram was blocked and I needed to setup a proxy to get access. So it is ironic that they are headquartered there. Maybe it is not blocked there now, I do not know.
This is articulated perfectly. I manually add unplanned events to my calendar after they have happened, like dinners, cinema, other things that I consider 'memorable', so that my calendar has more detailed texture to it.
If other data that is being collected anyway could enrich the calendar in exactly this way, it would be amazing.
That's hard to reconcile with "regularly fallen short of its U.S. weekly sales projections, sometimes by as much as 30 percent". They set their own projections.
Sounds roughly like they expected a 30% drop (for the reasons you cited) and got a 60%-ish drop instead.
From my limited perspective given the factually reported cost reductions, -60% seems 'fine'. Right now it seems like the platform has hit rock bottom in terms of public sentiment so even if the projections were optimistic at -30%, as long as things don't get worse, that's about it. Everyone who is holding out to subscribe or who has left the platform, has probably left already.
Would love to see the source document to understand what frequency 'regularly' and 'sometimes' refer to, and to know when in the last months the projections missed so spectacularly - but that would be boring journalism.
