#archeraviation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #archeraviation, aggregated by home.social.
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Former arch enemies merge - Archer Aviation acquires Boeing subsidiary Wisk Aero. Boeing will end up with a 16.5% stake in Archer.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/archer-buys-former-rival-wisk-aero/ #ArcherAviation #WiskAero #Boeing #Acquisition #IntellectualProperty #TradeSecrets #Lawsuit #eVTOL #ElectricAviation #Aviation #AutonomousFlying #AirTaxi
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Vertical Aerospace wants the stock market to take it seriously
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Weekly output: Android 16, Joby Aviation, Archer Aviation
We got our first snow of the season Friday morning, and it was such a treat to look out the windows of my home office and see the tree branches outside covered in white. It remains a delight to live in a place with distinct seasons.
I wrote an extra post on Patreon this week but broke from my usual practice by opening it to everybody on that site. So if you’ve been looking for a cheat sheet on how to get some money back on your holiday shopping via credit-card cashback offers and shopping portals, look no further.
12/2/2025: Second Major Android 16 Update Adds Expanded Parental Controls, AI-Condensed Notifications, More, PCMag
Google’s description of this update did not make it clear how this new parental-controls interface would appear in the Settings app, but now that it’s landed on my Pixel 9 Pro I can confirm that it bumps them up to a top-level menu item in that app.
12/3/2025: Are we finally closing in on a ‘Futurama’-like era of flying cars?, Fast Company
Before I could finish this piece based on my interview of a Joby Aviation executive at Web Summit, that eVTOL startup sued its competitor Archer Aviation. That required me to ping both companies for comment, and then filing and editing the story took a few more days.
12/3/2025: Archer Aviation Unwraps Plans for Air-Taxi Network Around Miami, PCMag
I wrote a second piece about eVTOL ambitions, this time about Archer’s plans for service around Miami. If you compare this piece to the posts I did about air-taxi startups three years ago, you should notice a lot more skepticism about the forecasts these companies have shared–and I can’t blame you for wondering why it was absent from my earlier coverage.
#airTaxi #android16 #archerAviation #evtol #jobyAviation #parentalControls
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Weekly output: American Airlines WiFi, Archer Aviation eVTOL air taxis, Google display-ads antitrust violations
During one of the busier travel weeks of the year (happy Easter, everyone), it only seems right for two of my posts for clients to involve commercial aviation. Airlines also figure in my own schedule over the coming week, because Saturday night I depart for Brazil to moderate three panels at Web Summit Rio.
In addition to the posts below, I wrote one Thursday for Patreon readers about how my attitude about taking press trips–meaning, trips subsidized by the company or organization behind the event in question–has changed over the past 10 years.
4/15/2025: Free Inflight Wi-Fi (Finally) Coming to American Airlines, PCMag
AA started this week with the least-competitive WiFi pricing of any U.S. carrier, and now it has one of the most-asterisked announcements of free WiFi among its competitors.
4/17/2025: Archer Aviation, United Airlines Tease Electric Air Taxi Hops to NYC Airports, PCMag
Spending half an hour on a Teams call with Archer’s chief commercial officer Nikhil Goel yielded details left out of the the company’s press release–as well as a questionable assurance that the Trump administration’s devotion to innovation would speed the Federal Aviation Administration’s certification of its Midnight electric vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft.
4/17/2025: Google Guilty of ‘Willfully Anticompetitive Acts’ in Display-Ads Business, Court Finds, PCMag
A little over two years after I filed a post from a deli in Wallops Island, Va., about the Justice Department’s lawsuit alleging multiple antitrust violations by Google in its display-ads business, I covered Judge Leonie Brinkema holding for the plaintiffs on three of their five claims in a ruling that could lead to the forced divestiture of major parts of Google’s display-ads business. Since that business has done my own industry few favors in recent years, I don’t feel too sorry for Google about that possibility.
#AA #airTaxi #AmericanAirlines #AmericanAirlinesWiFi #ArcherAviation #bannerAds #displayAds #eVTOL #EWR #GoogleAntitrust #GoogleDisplayAds #inflightWiFi #LGA #NYC #NYCAirports #UnitedAirlines