May 2014
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Beats and Beating Disruption, plus the Week in Daily Updates
The main page content on Stratechery is free for all readers, but I also offer the Daily Update via email and RSS for $10 per month/$100 per year.1 This is one of the items sent out in this week’s Daily Updates. To sign up, visit the Membership page Justifying Beats One side effect of how […]
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Daily Update: Justifying Beats, Amazon Prime Music Streaming, Swipely and Square Follow-up
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Daily Update: Apple Announces Beats Acquisition, Beats Music to Remain on Android, Square Launches Cash Advance
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Podcast: Exponent 005 – The World has Changed
On the newest episode of Exponent, the podcast I co-host with James Allworth: This episode surprised us; through a discussion of who is at fault in the latest series of new vs old-world spats, we realized that not only has the Internet fundamentally changed winners-and-losers, but also the very nature of economic competition and the […]
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Daily Update: Satya Nadella at the Code Conference, Google’s Self-Driving Car Video, Intel to Work with Rockchip on SoC
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Publishers’ Deal with the Devil
Ay, we must die an everlasting death. What doctrine call you this, Che sera, sera, What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu! – The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe To evoke Faust as allegory for the ongoing dispute between Amazon and book publishers is appropriate on two levels, the first being the nature […]
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Daily Update: Apple’s New iPad Ads, Intel’s Missed Opportunity, Rap Genius Fires Co-Founder
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Podcast: This Week in Tech – Plaudits and Brickbats
I was very honored to join Leo Laporte and friends on a special Memorial Day episode of This Week in Tech. We covered a wide range of issues, including the Surface Pro 3, the rumored Apple-Beats deal delayed, Amazon v Hachette, Metafilter v Google, Ebay’s security breach, and more. You can download the show here.
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Lenovo Posts Strong Earnings, and the Week in Daily Updates
The main page content on Stratechery is free for all readers, but I also offer the Daily Update via email and RSS for $10 per month/$100 per year.1 This is one of the items sent out in this week’s Daily Updates. To sign up, visit the Membership page Lenovo Posts Strong Earnings Lenovo had another […]