Episode 072 — Low Hanging Fruit

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James continue last week’s discussion about Apple’s struggles with the cloud, then discuss why the iPhone SE is such a brilliant move — and how those two things are related. Plus, an after-show about Microsoft and Intel and what makes for an effective leader. Links Amir Efrati and Steve Nellis: Inside Apple’s Cloud Infrastructure Troubles — The Information Ben Thompson: iCloud and Apple’s Founding Myth — Stratechery Adam Lashinsky: The Cook Doctrine at Apple — Fortune Ben Thompson: Apple Music and Apple’s Focus — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Two Bears — Stratechery Ben Thompson: What Clayton Christensen — Stratechery … Continue reading Episode 072 — Low Hanging Fruit

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0:00.0	Hi, James. Ben, how are you?
0:02.8	Well, the anxious audience wants to know, how are you?
0:06.1	I'm doing all right. I have some advice to everybody listening. Don't get in a fight with a
0:11.6	surgeon, much less two, because you will not win that fight.
0:15.9	You got in a fight?
0:17.1	Well, no, but they attacked me and they won. They had one guy put me down and then another two attacked me while I was out.
0:24.6	It was most unfair.
0:27.2	That's the strangest characterization of elective surgery, I think I've ever heard.
0:31.6	It's probably true.
0:32.7	No, I'm doing it.
0:33.4	But you're, clearly you're doing well because we are having an unscheduled or was thought to be a cancelled podcast.
0:40.0	We're back.
0:40.9	Yeah, no.
0:41.7	I'm doing much better than I was five or six days ago.
0:45.9	And I saw the doctors again yesterday and they were saying that everything went well.
0:51.6	So, yeah, we're back.
0:55.1	Well, this podcast is already legendary.
0:57.2	The unexpected James crawling out of his hospital bed to his microphone to record.
1:03.8	We better move up to it.
1:05.0	I missed you, Ben.
1:06.8	What could I say?
1:09.0	So we talked just a little bit in passing.
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