Episode 172 — Game of Phones

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Ben and James discuss WWDC keynote and why it was so important for Apple to move past the iPhone. Links Ben Thompson: Apple’s Audacity — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Apple’s Middle Age — Stratechery Letter from Tim Cook to Apple investors — Apple Ben Thompson: Strategy Credit — Stratechery Updates to the App Store Guidelines — Apple Ben Thompson: Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple — Stratechery Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback

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0:00.0	Hi, James. Ben, how are you? You know, James, I am scarred. I am dirty. I am carrying the burdens of the
0:09.3	struggle, but I am here and I have made it. That's what we all want to hear. The fact that you
0:14.7	hear it, but anyway, I'm not sure about dirty. Well, we're recording on a Monday night, a full week after the article that we were going to discuss.
0:24.5	We were supposed to record last week.
0:26.8	But it turns out I'm on the road and I have a travel mic.
0:29.8	And it turns out this travel mic requires a USB mini plug, which is not the USB micro.
0:34.8	That's the one that people are more familiar with, the really flat one.
0:37.4	This one's a little bulkier.
0:39.1	And it turns out I went to my microphone to my daughter, and I got the microphone back,
0:42.6	and I did not get the cord back.
0:44.0	And so I showed up without a cord.
0:45.6	So I'm in Silicon Valley.
0:46.7	I'm like, I can find this.
0:47.9	So I try Target first. large number of cords at target, but they did not have the USB mini, which is understandable.
0:55.0	It's a relatively old at this point.
0:57.1	So there's a best buy nearby.
0:58.3	I'm like, I could go there and find it.
1:00.1	I'm like, no, you know what?
1:01.0	I don't want to stop again.
1:02.0	I'm driving 25 minutes to Fry's Electronics because if there is one store on the planet
1:06.7	that's going to have a USB mini plug. It is going to be Fries. Well, Fries has three aisles in the store
1:13.3	devoted to USB cords. They have approximately 2,400 USB microplugs, all of which appear to be
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