Business Models
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Shopify Lowers Developer Fees, Scaling Digital Suppliers, The Power of App Stores
Shopify is lowering fees for developers, which makes sense given it is operating an app store, the Internet’s most powerful business model.
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The Lightness of Windows
The Windows 11 announcement was fun and interesting, but there is a reason that Windows is no longer the center of Microsoft’s business.
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Evaluating Sundar Pichai, EC Announces New Google Investigation, Amazon Blocks FLoC
Google doesn’t have a leadership problem, it’s just getting old. Plus, another EC investigation, and why Amazon’s advertising business is well-placed.
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Shop Pay on Google and Facebook, Shopify’s Evolution, The E-Commerce Shift
The announcement that Shop Pay is available to any merchant on Facebook and Google marks an evolution in both e-commerce and Shopify itself
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Starfield, an Xbox Exclusive; Xbox Cloud Gaming; New Consumer Paradigms
Microsoft’s E3 announcement give more shape to its cloud gaming ambitions, and highlight how difficult new consumers paradigms are today.
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Apple and Creators; Fanhouse and a Middle Way; Pragmatism and Conversions
Apple is receiving objections from the creator economy about its share, but it is likely that creators will have to accepts Apple’s terms as they are.
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ShazamKit and Weather, iOS 15’s New Privacy Approach, Mail Privacy Protection and Newsletters
Apple and Microsoft have similar approaches to developers, and iOS 15’s approach to privacy is better than iOS 14.
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Integrated Apple and App Store Risk
WWDC highlighted how Apple’s differentiation is based on integration; the company ought not risk that differentiation for exploitive App Store policies.