Episode 047 — Apple, Google, and Privacy

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2015

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Ben and James briefly discuss Jony Ive’s promotion, the future of Apple, Google I/O, and Tim Cook’s speech on privacy. Links Ben Thompson: The Apple Car and Jony Ive — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Google IO: Android and Serving the World; Photos, Google Now, and the World’s Information; Google’s Turning Point — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: The Funnel Framework — Stratechery Matthew Panzarino: Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech On Encryption, Privacy — TechCrunch Ben Thompson: Tim Cook’s Unfair and Unrealistic Privacy Speech, Strategy Credits, The Privacy Priority Problem — Stratechery Daily Update Ben … Continue reading Episode 047 — Apple, Google, and Privacy

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:00.7	Ben, how are you?
0:02.9	Well, I would say it's been a long time just we talked, but we did actually talk last week.
0:06.6	We didn't.
0:07.2	We didn't just talk once.
0:08.7	We talked twice.
0:09.9	I know.
0:10.4	I know.
0:11.4	And so this was a unfortunate, unfortunate in many respects.
0:18.0	So we talked about the fact that Johnny Ive is getting a quote unquote promotion.
0:25.5	And I articulated my position that I thought this was a kind of the first step, the beginning
0:33.3	of the end, I think is how I put it.
0:34.6	Not the end, you know, three to five years maybe, but the beginning of the end.
0:38.8	And to which you objected. I think we had a good back and forth. I'm not sure we changed
0:42.8	each other's minds. But I think we really fleshed out, fleshed out the issue.
0:47.6	It was great. I mean, I think, did you enjoy it?
0:51.4	I very much enjoyed it. And because no one's heard it, we can pretend it's like the best episode ever.
0:56.1	We can not only pretend it was the best episode ever.
0:59.0	And then on the next day, news came out that, I don't know, somewhat kind of vindicated me.
1:05.4	And then all of a sudden the recordings stopped working.
1:09.2	That's not how it went down.
1:12.1	What happened was Jeff Williams at Code sure seemed to suggest that Apple was working on a car.
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