Episode 109 — Screw-ups Are Fun!

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Ben and James discuss Apple’s Mac Pro screw-up and what it might say about the company and its culture. Presented by MailChimp Links John Gruber: The Mac Pro Lives — Daring Fireball Jay Yarow: Phil Schiller on Apple’s Ad Agency in an Email — Business Insider Ben Thompson: Whither Liberal Arts — Stratechery Apple iPad Air Ad — YouTube Steve Jobs After the GarageBand Demo During the Introduction of the iPad 2 — YouTube Ben Thompson: Apple’s Organizational Crossroads — Stratechery Ben Thompson: From Products to Platforms — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Why Doesn’t Apple Enable Sustainable Business on the App … Continue reading Episode 109 — Screw-ups Are Fun!

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0:00.0	Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I've had a rough morning. I may or may not have lost my AirPods,
0:07.0	and then my computer didn't start, and then it's been rough. First world problems would be
0:14.7	sure. Yeah, that's true. I was about to say the Apple gods are frowning upon you for some reason.
0:19.6	Oh, maybe it's a preemptive strike against what we have to talk about today.
0:23.3	Yeah, maybe indeed.
0:26.1	Our thanks to MailChimp for sponsoring Exponent.
0:29.3	MailChimp has been around since 2001.
0:30.6	It started as a side project funded by various web development jobs.
0:33.6	Now they're the world's leading email marketing platform, sending more than a billion emails a day.
0:38.3	MailChimp democratizes technology for small businesses, including trajectory, creating innovative
0:42.4	products that empower their customers to grow.
0:44.7	Our thanks to MailChimp for sponsoring exponent, as they do every week.
0:48.2	Yep.
0:48.5	Thanks, guys.
0:49.2	Really appreciate it.
0:50.7	So we generally don't spend a lot of time doing sort of product reviews, in part because we
0:54.5	probably learned our lesson with the Apple Watch.
0:57.3	Yes, do we want?
0:59.7	Which wasn't a product review.
1:01.1	And actually, I think we're probably going to get back to the Apple Watch in some respects
1:04.7	in today's podcast, but hopefully in a much more congenial sort of.
1:09.5	Oh, absolutely.
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