monkbent

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by monkbent 3y ago
I have been exceptionally critical of Apple, particularly in terms of ATT.
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by monkbent 7y ago
This was a mistake, since fixed, but even then there are no basketball references
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by monkbent 7y ago
Screw up by me but point holds. Fixing.
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by monkbent 8y ago
https://stratechery.com/about/#ethics
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by monkbent 8y ago
This is why the entire second half of the article was detailing where I think focus should be.
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by monkbent 8y ago
https://stratechery.com/about/#ethics
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by monkbent 9y ago
Maybe read the article
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by monkbent 10y ago
I have no idea how you guys are getting the impression I'm ok with Zuckerberg's stated goals here. I think I was pretty clear on that point at least!
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by monkbent 10y ago
"This is a response to Marco Arment, Ben Thompson, and other pundits (largely spurred by the PR efforts of Google and to a lesser extent Facebook and Microsoft)" It may not be self-congratulation, but this sentence is definitely u
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by monkbent 10y ago
Tell that to my family and friends who live in the rust belt and absolutely feel this way. I wrote that from personal experience.
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by monkbent 10y ago
Actually, I have never seen that before but I'll claim it! Haha
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by monkbent 10y ago
Read the last footnote
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by monkbent 11y ago
Totally fair re tech writers. To be clear, I was not at all trying to suggest that tech was the only factor. It's a small one. Moreover, where tech matters is in how it has devalued what the party offered, clearing the space for Trum
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by monkbent 11y ago
http://stratechery.com/2015/twitter-might/
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by monkbent 12y ago
Turns out actually meeting a market need is important (Path), having a functional business model (Square), knowing your target customer (Dropbox), and we'll see with Medium. User experience is a differentiator. It's not the only t
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by monkbent 12y ago
Perhaps I should litigate against people that say I haven't when they can't be bothered to follow the very next link in the next sentence: http://stratechery.com/2013/clayton-christensen-got-wrong/ Or th
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by monkbent 12y ago
That was my only point. Sullivan type 40 post a day blogs don't make much sense anymore, but the entire premise of my article is that blogs still matter and can still be a business. Cheers
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by monkbent 12y ago
I think you either 1) didn't read the whole article or 2) completely misread it. The point is the meat remains, even as all the excerpt and link stuff has mostly moved to Twitter.
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by monkbent 12y ago
Apple is a hardware company. Your confusion comes from not following the money. Their software and services exist to differentiate the hardware and allow for a profit margin. The Microsoft corollary would be if Apple offered iTunes, iCloud,
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by monkbent 12y ago
Maybe don't skim and read thoroughly? I actually said they're still big. It's just that even bigger things came along.
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How Apple TV Might Disrupt Microsoft and Sony(stratechery.com)
2 points by monkbent 12y ago|0 comments
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When CEOs Matter(stratechery.com)
1 points by monkbent 12y ago|0 comments
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Web Hosting for App Developers(marco.org)
40 points by monkbent 12y ago|3 comments
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Netflix is not a friend of net neutrality(stratechery.com)
5 points by monkbent 13y ago|0 comments
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by monkbent 13y ago
See the previous article: http://stratechery.com/2014/business-models-2014/
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Chromebooks and the Cost of Complexity(stratechery.com)
9 points by monkbent 13y ago|4 comments
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IPad Predictions, Revisited. Will Apple go for market share?(stratechery.com)
2 points by monkbent 13y ago|0 comments
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So the 5S is (allegedly) killing the 5C. Why is this bad news?(stratechery.com)
1 points by monkbent 13y ago|0 comments
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Obsoletive: The iPhone Wasn't Disruptive. It was Obsoletive.(stratechery.com)
2 points by monkbent 13y ago|0 comments
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by monkbent 13y ago
But that's new market disruption, which I said I agree with. In fact, I explicitly called out the iPad (which I'm sure you read). It's low end disruption - that the same product becomes modularized - that I have an issue with

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