Ben Thompson
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Growing Apple at WWDC
In the end, as with many of Apple strategies, much of what transpired in Monday’s WWDC keynote was telegraphed many months ago, at least from a strategic perspective. Consider the thinking behind iOS 7. As Jony Ive told USA Today: When we sat down last November (to work on iOS 7), we understood that people […]
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Daily Update: Apple’s True Differentiation, Two More Beats Tidbits, Computex Starts Today
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WWDC Expectations
Update: bumping to the top of the page Beyond the usual updates of iOS and OS X, there are two significant rumors about what Apple might unveil next week at WWDC. The first is Healthbook, as detailed by Mark Gurman here and here. The second is Apple’s plan for a smart home, first reported by […]
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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