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Episode 142 (Updated) — Google and Antitrust

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Google’s recent moves around blocking ads and promoting AMP and whether they raise antitrust questions. Plus, why Microsoft couldn’t have stopped Google, and why cryptocurrencies are aggregator kryptonite. NOTE: The previous version of this episode was not edited in the middle. There is no new content in this episode, but it should be easier to listen to. Presented by WordPress.com: Get 15% off on a new site by visiting WordPress.com/Exponent. Links Ben Thompson: The Aggregation Paradox — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Case Against Google — Stratechery Daily Update Charles Duhigg: The Case Against Google — The … Continue reading Episode 142 (Updated) — Google and Antitrust

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you? Moved in. I'm happy to say. That's, it's good. It seems like it was a multi-stage

0:08.7

process and this, the last stage is now complete, huh? Yeah, it was, overall, it was relatively smooth.

0:15.4

I think the tricky part was I did move my, my office first. So I, I had a separate office in a

0:20.5

separate place than in our previous house, previous house, which was quite small.

0:23.6

And now I'm back to having a straight-up home office.

0:26.5

So I moved the office first, and then two weeks later moved, we moved the rest of the house.

0:31.9

And so that intervening two weeks is a little awkward.

0:34.6

But it's all done now.

0:36.0

I am home.

0:37.1

I am in my office, which is, which is nicely

0:39.6

kind of separated from the rest of the house. It's actually an office. It's not a, it's not like

0:42.9

a fourth bedroom or something like that. So there's a nice sort of delineation where now I'm,

0:47.3

I'm at work and where's the rest time I'm at home. So hopefully, hopefully it works out. Working from home is hard. It's harder than people think. But I mean, no one wants to hear about me complaining about working from home. So I'll stop. Are the kids allowed, is there a boundary over which the kids aren't allowed cross or it's not that heavily delineated? Yeah. My son is not quite figured out the like, yes, daddy's here, but he's not here. But that's okay. Well, I just need to, I need to finish sooner.

1:12.3

Finish earlier than the day.

1:13.4

Very good.

1:14.5

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