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 […]
May 2014
Daily Update: Justifying Beats, Amazon Prime Music Streaming, Swipely and Square Follow-up
Good morning, I will be traveling to San Francisco next week, which means the timing of these updates may be a little irregular for the entire week (likely several hours later on Tuesday through Wednesday in particular). Thank you for your patience. For Access members, I plan on doing some sort of live chat duringSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Apple Announces Beats Acquisition, Beats Music to Remain on Android, Square Launches Cash Advance
Good morning, I wouldn’t have published Why Apple is Buying Beats were I not pretty certain that the deal was done; that said, it sure took a long time to become final, but final it is. That piece I wrote still applies, as does this podcast. On to the updates: Apple Announces Beats Acquisition FromSubscribe […]
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 […]
Daily Update: Satya Nadella at the Code Conference, Google’s Self-Driving Car Video, Intel to Work with Rockchip on SoC
Good morning, I mistakenly made yesterday’s Daily Update available to everyone; I promise you that was not intentional, and apologize for lowering the value of your subscription for even a day. I also wrote about the ongoing dispute between Amazon and the publishers in a piece called Publishers’ Deal with the Devil. Amazon also releasedSubscribe […]
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 […]
Daily Update: Apple’s New iPad Ads, Intel’s Missed Opportunity, Rap Genius Fires Co-Founder
Note: I made a mistake while publishing this and sent it to the main Stratechery feed. Since people are sharing this from their feed readers, I’ve decided to make it free for everyone. Consider it a preview of what Daily Update’s are like: if you like it, I hope you will consider signing up Good […]
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.
Daily Update: Windows 8.1 with Bing, Hacking and Corporate Responsibility, Asian Chat App Updates
Good morning, Happy Memorial Day to my US readers, and Happy Monday to the rest of the world. When it comes to holidays, I plan on observing the Taiwanese holidays for most of the year, but American holidays during the summer (i.e. July 4). I’ll always let you know before I take a day offSubscribe […]
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 […]