Ben Thompson
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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It’s Time to Kill Surface
“The question that needs to be asked and answered is why hardware.” To Satya Nadella’s credit, he provided not just the answer, but the question as well. And, looked at narrowly, there were good things seen – and not seen – at Microsoft’s Surface event. Having clearly failed as a mass market device, it makes […]
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Daily Update: JD.com Prices IPO, Google’s SEC Letter, Patent Reform Dies
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Daily Update: Lenovo Earnings, Windows 8 Banned, Google Buys Divide
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Podcast: Exponent Episode 004 – Technology and Politics
On the newest episode of Exponent, the podcast I co-host with James Allworth: Are the recent debates on net neutrality, the protests of Google buses, even SOPA a sign of things to come? Building on yesterday’s article The Net Neutrality Wake-up Call, we discuss the intersection of technology and politics. Why do people in technology […]