The fear of productivity loss & the crazy things we do to avoid it, a sober look at the tablet market for developers, GitLab’s recent disaster & we bring it all home with a little time travel.

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Links:

• Tim Cook Says ‘Exciting Things’ Coming to iPad as Tablet Sales Continue to Drop

• Apple Watch Dominated Holiday Season With Estimated 5.2 Million Shipments

• Alexa and Google Home’s dirty little secret: 97% of voice apps are only used for one week – TechRepublic

• GitLab.com melts down after wrong directory deleted, backups fail • The Register

Upstart said it had outgrown the cloud — now five out of five restore tools have failed

• GitLab.com Database Incident – 2017/01/31