Platforms
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Stripe’s announcement of Treasury — banking-as-a-service — manifests the breadth of the company’s ambition.
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An Interview With Roblox CEO David Baszucki About Aggregating Play
An interview with Roblox CEO David Baszucki about how AI is transforming game creation, and why that opens up huge opportunities to both enable developers and make Roblox both an Aggregator and a platform.
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Apple Earnings, Memory Problems, The Hardware Company Regression
Apple’s earnings suggest that the company’s hardware business is doing better than ever, even in the face of memory challenges. Does the software story help or hurt?
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Apple Settles With E.U., U.S. App Store Fees, ATT Rules in Germany
Apple’s App Store is finally facing the reality of lower fees, and the EU should be satisfied with its work; it’s ok it’s late.
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XBOX Cuts; Bundling and the Internet Solvent; Transaction, Coordination, and Sunk Costs
Microsoft’s Xbox division is conducting big layoffs, as the company deals with abject failure of its Game Pass strategy.
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Apple Price Increases, Apple Intelligence and the E.U.
Apple is (finally) raising prices, but they’re not shipping Siri AI to the E.U.
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An Interview with Ben Bajarin About Apple, AI, and Compute
An interview with Ben Bajarin about WWDC and the status of the AI compute industry.
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An Interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella About Finding Core Competencies
An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about figuring out Microsoft’s role in AI, the relationship with OpenAI, Capex, Software, and a potential new agentic platform.