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Mac Power Users

308: Workflows with Ben Thompson

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How To, Tech, Sparks, David, Set Up, Mac, Workflow, Ios, User, Help, Power, Stephen Hackett, Technology

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2016

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

David and Katie chat with Ben Thompson about how business strategy impacts technology, living and working in Asia and global views on the mobile market, and the upcoming March 2016 Apple event. Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!

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MacPower users episode 308, Workflows with Ben Thompson. Welcome back to another episode of the Mac Power Users

0:16.7

podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside David Sparks. Hey David!

0:20.0

Hey Katie Floyd, how are you today? I'm great, how are you?

0:23.0

Excellent, ready to record another episode of the Mac Power Users and we got a guest today

0:28.4

that I'm quite excited about.

0:30.4

Yeah, we'd like to welcome to the show Mr. Ben Thompson.

0:32.6

Welcome, thank you for joining us, Ben.

0:34.8

I'm happy to be here, thanks for having me.

0:37.3

Yeah, you've been on our little, a little intimidated, I have to say.

0:40.3

Oh, really?

0:41.7

Ditto, brother, Ditto. Yeah, you've been on our list for a while and you're a pretty big fish.

0:46.2

We're glad to get you.

0:47.2

Well, I feel woefully disorganized in the presence of you guys, but we'll see how it goes. That's all of us man. That's why we're here.

0:55.1

If we had it all figured out we wouldn't need the podcast. Fair enough.

1:01.0

Anyway, for those of you who don't know Ben, Ben is the proprietor of Strutecery, which is a website

1:07.4

and a newsletter where he spends a lot of time talking about business and technology.

1:11.6

Ben's been kind of looking at this stuff for 20 years.

1:15.4

He worked at Apple, he worked at Microsoft.

1:17.8

And you're really, you're just one of the, if I can say,

1:21.6

I guess I can toot your horn, right? You're one of the if I can say I guess I can toot your horn right you're one of the

1:23.9

premier technology slash business bloggers out there and whenever I don't

1:29.9

understand what's going on you know like why did Apple have the biggest

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