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Episode 129 — The Disruption Antidote

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss why acquisitions should be the focus of tech regulators in the context of Facebook buying tbh today, and Instagram and WhatsApp previously. Links Ben Thompson: Why Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy TBH — Stratechery Marco Arment: The Impossible Dream of USB-C — Marco.org Ben Thompson: Peak Google — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Great News — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Revisiting Peak Google, Again — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Defining Aggregators — Stratechery Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter … Continue reading Episode 129 — The Disruption Antidote

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, James.

0:01.4

Ben, how are you?

0:04.0

A little, little irritated, I have to say.

0:07.0

I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to tee this up.

0:09.3

What's making you feel irritated right now, Ben?

0:11.5

Well, so it started out that my favorite basketball team lost the game today,

0:14.4

and they lost the game due for predictable reasons that I think go back to the coaching,

0:17.4

and I have, whatever, no one wants to about my take on, well, maybe some people will do, but no one wants

0:22.1

to hear about basketball on the X-Py podcast.

0:24.7

And then I'm already feeling a little grumpy.

0:26.7

And then I sit down to set up for this podcast and my computer is just having lots

0:30.9

of problems.

0:31.7

No.

0:32.9

And I'm, yeah, well, it's okay.

0:33.8

I'm not mad at the computer. Like, but I am so hard on my computers because,

0:38.4

I mean, like, one, they're just, I obviously use one all the time. It's going to grow for my

0:41.7

life. But I mean, I put it in a bag every day, care back from my office to, to home. It's, it's

0:46.8

banging around. I've carried it all over the world. Like, this computer has been, it's been everywhere. I'm hard on my computers. That's fine. I think of them as tools, not jewels, and I use them that way.

0:57.5

The problem is that because of that and because it's so integral to my work, I don't feel bad buying a new computer every year.

1:04.2

You know, not only just get the best performance, but, you know, just stuff, you know, stuff wears down, especially around the ports and things like that. The problem is that, so back in 2016, I have my credit card out, waiting for the Apple MacBook event.

1:16.5

I'm going to buy a new computer.

1:17.6

And no, I don't think so.

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