Articles

  • Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability

    Twitter went too far last week for reasons that go back to 2016 and the unfair blaming of tech for media’s mistakes.


  • Disney and Integrators Versus Aggregators

    Disney’s reorganization reinforces their integrated strategy; there is a lot to learn for anyone competing with Aggregators.


  • Anti-Monopoly vs. Antitrust

    What matters about the Congressional report on tech and antitrust is that it exists, not the specific details.


  • 2020 Bundles

    The state of bundles in 2020: Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. Plus, Microsoft’s purchase of ZeniMax.


  • Nvidia’s Integration Dreams

    Nvidia’s acquisition of ARM only makes sense from a financial perspective, unless you buy Jensen Huang’s datacenter dreams.


  • Rethinking the App Store

    Assume that Apple is going to win versus Epic: what is a reasonable approach to the App Store that will gain more developer support?


  • Apple, Epic, and the App Store

    The App Store is not one thing: it is installation, payments, and customer management; the further Apple gets from iOS, the worse its actions are for users and developers.


  • Antitrust Politics

    Analyzing the politics of the antitrust hearing featuring the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook.


  • India, Jio, and the Four Internets

    There are four Internets: China versus the U.S., and the E.U. and India. India’s potential new model rests on Jio.


  • The TikTok War

    How TikTok exposed Facebook’s blindspot, thanks to its Chinese roots, and why those Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern.