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Episode 035 – Fascinating

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2015

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

We apologize for the late delivery of this podcast! In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss why Apple is so fascinating, why the Mac lost to Windows, debate whether or not Google should have open-sourced Android, and discussed the implications of Apple’s new market – your entire life Also, please note that there will no episode later this week due to Chinese New Year. Links John Gruber: Dazzling Results – Daring Fireball Ben Thompson: Apple’s New Market – Stratechery Rita McGrath: The End of Competitive Advantage – Kindle Ben Thompson: The Uncanny Valley of a Functional Organization – Stratechery … Continue reading Episode 035 – Fascinating

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you?

0:03.5

Better than you, once again, apparently.

0:05.9

Yeah, that headache kind of progressed into the sore throat, progressed into the cold.

0:10.4

I'm going to avoid trying to blow my nose too much while we're recording.

0:14.8

Though previously when that's had to happen, you very kindly edited out my massive honking noise that like permeates the microphone, I'm sure.

0:26.4

Well, when you put it that way, I'm going to have to include it now.

0:31.6

Oh, no.

0:32.3

All right.

0:32.6

Well, then I'm just hoping I don't get too congested in the next hour or so.

0:38.2

So, uh,

0:39.3

uh,

0:40.9

I have bad news for,

0:43.0

for you and perhaps some of our listeners.

0:45.4

Uh-oh.

0:46.5

Uh, I,

0:47.0

I wrote about Apple again.

0:49.5

Just for something different, huh?

0:51.8

Well, I mean, I got a,

0:53.6

I got a couple tweets griping about it.

0:56.1

But I, we touched on this, we touched on this briefly a few, a few episodes ago.

1:05.7

I don't remember when.

1:06.7

But like, why is it that we and so many, you know, people, you know, talk about Apple?

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