October 2014
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Podcast: Exponent Episode 023 – Apple Pay
On the newest episode of Exponent, the podcast I co-host with James Allworth: In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss Apple Pay and its impact on retailers and banks. Links Glenn Fleishman: A Week of Apple Pay: Chips, PINs, and…signatures? – Six Colors Ben Thompson: The Problem with Payments – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Why […]
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Daily Update: Tim Cook’s Announcement; Twitter Changes, Again; Nintendo’s Turnaround
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Daily Update: A Tale of Three Smartphone Makers, Microsoft Health and the Microsoft Band
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Publishers and the Smiling Curve
Publishers used to live at the point of integration. The value of that integration, though, is gone with the Internet, which means value flows to suppliers and aggregators.
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Podcast: This Week in Tech – Good Touch, Bad Touch
I joined Leo Laporte, Philip Elmer-DeWitt and Dave Hamilton on This Week in Tech. We talked about Apple in China, Apple Pay, Peak Google, and more. You can download the show here.
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Daily Update: Why Apple Pay was Blocked, and Why it Will Succeed; Google Reorgs, Kind Of
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Podcast: Exponent Episode 022 – Peak Google, Monologue Edition
On the newest episode of Exponent, the podcast I co-host with James Allworth: In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss Ben’s article “Peak Google” and the future of advertising. Links Ben Thompson: Peak Google – Stratechery Benedict Evans: The Irrelevance of Microsoft – Ben-Evans.com Peter Kriss: The Value of Customer Experience, Quantified – Harvard […]
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Daily Update: Microsoft Earnings and Surface’s Alleged Success, Amazon Earnings and the Fire Fantasy, The End of the Apple-GT Advanced Saga