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  • Books and Blogs

    Blogs are no longer a writing platform for new entrants; they are better than books for the ongoing development of ideas.


  • Apple and the Oak Tree Follow-up, Is HomePod Late?, Apple Earnings

    More on Apple’s earnings, China prospects, and HomePod’s potential beyond simply being a speaker.


  • Ben @ Code Media on The Great Unbundling

    A video of Ben presenting at Code Media.


  • Stratechery Gifts and Announcements, Apple Open-Sources Swift

    Stratechery gift subscriptions are now available, plus an important site announcement. Then, we all knew Apple was going to open-source Swift. What was impressive was how the company went about doing it; hopefully it will prove to be an example for a clearly divided company.


  • Welcome to Stratechery 3.0

    Welcome to Stratechery 3.0! Stratechery 1.0 was the launch of this blog in March 2013; Stratechery 2.0 the launch of the Daily Update in April 2014. Stratechery 3.0 is perhaps less transformative from a business perspective, but it’s a substantial reworking of the technological underpinnings of Stratechery that should put the site in a good place…


  • Blogging’s Bright Future

    Blogs may not be the only means of expression on line, but they are a more viable as a business for writers focused on niches than ever before.


  • Differentiation and Value Capture in the Internet Age

    The implication of the Smiling Curve is not only that aggregators have increased economic power, but that differentiated suppliers do as well; Omni Software is an example.


  • An Update on the Stratechery Membership Program

    Last spring I wrote a series about the future of journalism: Part 1: FiveThirtyEight and the End of Average – link Part 2: The Stages of Newspapers’ Decline – link Part 3: Newspapers Are Dead; Long Live Journalism – link In the third installment I wrote: More and more journalism will be small endeavors, often […]


  • Daily Update: Bandcamp, Tencent Earnings, Twitter’s Analyst Day, plus a Stratechery Announcement


  • Free Stratechery and the Daily Email

    I hope you will forgive one more solipsistic post; I’m as eager as you to get back to the kind of writing that you are here for. First off, thanks for your support. I’ve been pretty overwhelmed with the number of signups so far; it’s a great affirmation of what I’m doing here. As expected, […]