Countries – Page 19 – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Google Makes Deal With News Corp, Facebook Blocks News in Australia, Microsoft’s Cynicism

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Google gives in in Australia, not to the government, but to News Corp. Facebook, meanwhile, pulls out; they are right on the merits, but terrible at the politics.

Clubhouse’s Inevitability

Monday, February 15, 2021

Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.

Mistakes, Memes, and Foreign Ground; Coronavirus Context; The New York Times and the China Model

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Considering a world of memes is uncomfortable, and perhaps explains why journalists want a world of information control. The problem is that we will never be better at this than China.

Apple Earnings, An Interview with Jay Goldberg About Chips and Intel

Thursday, January 28, 2021

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Apple crushed earning, thanks in large part to China. Then, an interview with Jay Goldberg about chips generally and Intel specifically.

Publishing is Back to the Future

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Journalism cannot afford to be divorced from business realities; that applies to Australia, the New York Times, and even Andreessen Horowitz.

Intel Problems

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Intel is in much more danger than its profits suggest; the problems are a long time in the making, and the solution is to split up the company.

Two Crises, Tech’s Costs, Looking Forward

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Too much tech power has been an impending crisis for years; that doesn’t change just how costly the crisis was. Then again, centralization might yet win.

Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

The actions taken by Big Tech have a resonance that goes beyond the context of domestic U.S. politics. Even if they were right, they will still push the world to Internet 3.0.

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.

New Defaults

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

The pandemic and vaccine rollout have highlighted where the West has lost its way; we need new defaults about information, change, and speed.

The Opening Week in Review, Nuggets Darkness and Eastern Conference Angst, A True Catastrophe for OKC

The Opening Week in Review, Nuggets Darkness and Eastern Conference Angst, A True Catastrophe for OKC

The End of the Internet

Netflix Angst, The End of the Internet, Q&A on Meta’s VR Glasses, Anthropic Alignment, You Can See Everything

Anthropic S-1, The Cost of Compute, Who Is Paying?

Sharp Tech on Video: Netflix Angst, the End of the Internet, and Meta’s VR Glasses

An Interview with Craig Moffett About SpaceX and Bubbles

The Opening Week in Review, Nuggets Darkness and Eastern Conference Angst, A True Catastrophe for OKC

The End of the Internet

Netflix Angst, The End of the Internet, Q&A on Meta’s VR Glasses, Anthropic Alignment, You Can See Everything

An Interview with Craig Moffett About SpaceX and Bubbles