2014
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Privacy is Dead
The nature of the Internet and the business-models of social networks means that privacy as commonly understood is dead; tech companies need to learn to self-regulate or governments will do it for them.
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Daily Update: Amazon’s PR Runup, Box Acquires Streem, Priceline Acquires OpenTable
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Podcast: Electric Shadow – Irons in the Fire
Late last week I joined Moisés Chiullan and Guy English for a podcast that built pretty directly on last week’s Stratechery article How Apple TV Might Disrupt Microsoft and Sony. We went deep on many of the questions raised on Twitter about the piece, including console lifecycles, the Playstation TV, Metal, and more. Moisés has […]
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Xiaomi’s Oversold Global Ambitions, 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 Xiaomi’s Worldwide Ambitions Bloomberg BusinessWeek has a […]
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How Apple TV Might Disrupt Microsoft and Sony
Beyond the fact most of us had nothing better to do in the 1980s, a big reason to own a gaming console was that they were a phenomenally good deal. In 1985 Nintendo introduced the Famicom to North America as the Nintendo Entertainment System for a mere $199, a remarkably low price considering the average […]
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Podcast: Exponent 006 – Product Versus Profit
On the newest episode of Exponent, the podcast I co-host with James Allworth: In this episode we discuss why James was less excited by WWDC than was Ben, why the Beats acquisition may actually be a textbook response to the Innovator’s Dilemma, whether Apple has every truly faced disruption, as well as James’ review of […]
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Daily Update: Alibaba Buys Out UCWeb, Dropbox Buys MobileSpan, Will Microsoft Undercut AWS on Price?