Ben Thompson
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Amazon’s Whale Strategy
A week before yesterday’s launch of the Fire Phone, Amazon sent all of the attendees a copy of the children’s book “Mr. Pines Purple House” with a note from Jeff Bezos stating: I think you’ll agree that the world is a better place when things are a little bit different. Beyond the book, the first […]
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Critiquing Disruption Theory
Much of the Internet has been abuzz about The Disruption Machine, an essay by Jill Lepore in the New Yorker that seeks to refute Clayton Christensen’s Theory of Disruptive Innovation. From the article: Most big ideas have loud critics. Not disruption. Disruptive innovation as the explanation for how change happens has been subject to little […]
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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 […]