Episode 131 — Head-on is Hard

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

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4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Ben and James break down the differences between new market and low end disruption and how they apply — or don’t — to Apple and the iPhone. Links Ben Thompson: Apple at Its Best — Stratechery Apple’s iPhone X Parts Cost $115 More Than iPhone 8, IHS Says — Bloomberg Ben Thompson: What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Beyond the iPhone — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Apple’s Organizational Crossroads — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Android Detour — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Apple and the Oak Tree — Stratechery Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review … Continue reading Episode 131 — Head-on is Hard

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:01.2	Ben, how are you?
0:03.5	Consternated.
0:04.6	Consternated.
0:05.0	Why consternated?
0:06.5	I believe that's a new adjective, and I'm quite proud of having used it.
0:10.3	So I've complained about my computer issues.
0:12.9	So I'm actually thinking about getting an IMac, which is, by all accounts, a great computer.
0:16.8	And I realize over the last couple years, I'm traveling less than I was before.
0:20.5	I'm actually
0:20.9	getting a lot more done at my desk. And even when I leave to pick up my daughter from
0:25.0	school order, it might be. I'm often coming back instead of bringing my computer with me like I
0:29.0	used to. So in some respects, it makes more sense. And I've already, you know, did my little
0:32.7	complaint about the, the laptop situation. But the issue is, I was pricing out an IMac and if I get an IMac I'm probably going to have it for a long time right so I've always adopted the philosophy of like max everything out now except for me maxing the processor out's not really important at all the only processor intensive work I do is this podcast exporting exporting it, and that happens like once a week.
0:58.1	The problem is that I'm pricing this out. And it turns out that if you want to go from 32 gigabytes to 640 gigabytes RAM, which is totally unreasonable, I don't really need it.
1:03.9	But I love RAM.
1:04.8	So I want to do it.
1:05.8	You know, just do it up front.
1:08.1	And by the way, I don't want to hear about it.
1:10.5	I can buy memory kits separately and all that sort of stuff.
1:12.4	I'd rather not deal with it.
1:14.4	It was in theory.
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