App Stores – Page 19 – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Facebook and Twitter Suspend Trump, Parler Suspended Everywhere, Context and Culture

Monday, January 11, 2021

Facebook and Twitter ban Trump; Apple, Google, and Amazon ban Parler; this wasn’t an ideal solution, but it was a uniquely American one.

Facebook and Apple, Continued; Facebook’s iOS 14 Changes; Georgia and Tech

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Facebook made major changes to accommodate Apple’s iOS 14 policies, probably because Apple leveraged their control of the App Store to give them no choice. Then, the implications of the Georgia outcomes for tech.

Privacy Labels and Lookalike Audiences

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Apple’s position on privacy seems unimpeachable, but it ignores trade-offs, and risks a bad outcome for the Internet as a whole.

A Sixth Lesson from Dave Chappelle; Facebook and Apple, Continued; Facebook Acquires Kustomer

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

One more lesson from Dave Chappelle, this time about how the old order are all playing the same game. Apple seems to prefer that game, even if Facebook has helped them win at the new one.

More on the App Store, Hard Mode Follow-Up, Airbnb’s Complicated Costs

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Apple’s App Store changes are genuinely a good deal for small publishers, and make me feel more favorable about the entire business. Then, Airbnb’s costs, particularly marketing, are too hard to understand.

Zuckerberg and Dorsey in Congress, Again; Apple Reduces App Store Fees for Small Developers; Apple’s Aggregation Politics

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey were in front of Congress again, while Apple reduced its App Store take for small developers.

Facebook Gaming, Facebook’s Innovation, Apple and Facebook

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Facebook Gaming is perhaps the most innovative game streaming service; Apple should embrace it.

An Interview with Microsoft Executive Vice-President of Gaming Phil Spencer

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Listen to Podcast

How gaming has changed at Microsoft, Xbox’s strategy for the next generation, and what is going on with iOS

United States v. Google

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

The Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google is appropriately narrow, and if it fails it gives a template for Congressional action.

Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability

Monday, October 19, 2020

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

Anthropic Opens the Kimono, Bubble Questions and Frontier Costs, Q&A on Meta, Starlink, Brewers

Anthropic Opens the Kimono, Bubble Questions and Frontier Costs, Q&A on Meta, Starlink, Brewers

Touchscreen MacBook Pros

(Preview) Five Questions on the Fifth Plenum; Mbappé Hysteria and a Chinese Own Goal; The STAR 50 AI Bubble Has Burst

Sharp Tech on Video: Anthropic’s S-1 and What It Means for Meta and Muse, You Can See Everything, and Brewers!

An Interview with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar About the AI Religious War

Meta Earnings, Muse and the Frontier, Musebook

Anthropic Opens the Kimono, Bubble Questions and Frontier Costs, Q&A on Meta, Starlink, Brewers

Touchscreen MacBook Pros

(Preview) Five Questions on the Fifth Plenum; Mbappé Hysteria and a Chinese Own Goal; The STAR 50 AI Bubble Has Burst

An Interview with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar About the AI Religious War

An Interview with Craig Moffett About SpaceX and Bubbles