Episode 178 — More Ergonomic

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss the downsides of monopoly, and Apple. Then, why there is no absolute answer when it comes to integration or modularization, and why different approaches require different types of organizations and different types of leaders. Links Ben Thompson: Integration and Monopoly — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly — Stratechery John Gruber: 16-Inch MacBook Pro First Impressions: Great Keyboard, Outstanding Speakers — Daring Fireball Ben Thompson: Apple’s Organizational Crossroads — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Why Microsoft’s Reorganization Is a Bad Idea — Stratechery Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review … Continue reading Episode 178 — More Ergonomic

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0:00.0	Hi, James. Ben, how are you?
0:02.9	Worried, James. I am very worried. I'm worried about you.
0:06.2	Me? Yes. You have recently disclosed to me that you are podcasting on a computer with a bulging
0:12.9	battery such that the lid can't even close. And that is not wise. It's not smart. Their house
0:18.3	is going to blow up. And it's going to happen on this podcast. It's going to be very tragic.
0:21.3	So I got a 2013 MacBook Pro, which I'm still fond of, but I have this wonderful external
0:27.1	display, and I don't like cluttering my desk.
0:29.9	So I keep the MacBook under the desk, and I've had the lid closed on it.
0:33.6	And I think it's probably gotten a little warm over time. And I went to look at it the other day.
0:38.9	And it's like, this is a little weirdly shaped. And I pulled it out. And it's literally
0:43.6	deformed. It's gradually expanding in space as the battery continues to deform. And I was like,
0:49.6	I mean, I looked at new ones. And I was like, but for audience, for it, just to be clear, I have
0:54.1	pushed James to go get this fixed or out of his house immediately.
0:58.6	So you don't need to email us. Yes, he is being reckless, but sheesh.
1:02.2	I keep looking at Apple's offerings and nothing grabs me. Like I don't want to touch bar on the top of my MacBook Pro. And plus I have this external monitor, and I don't want to stick
1:11.2	another one under the desk. The Mac pros are outrageously expensive, and the Mac minis have no decent
1:16.1	GPU. And by the time I put a terabyte of hard drive space in it, it's $2,000 or something. It's
1:22.5	like, well, I'll just live with my ever-expanding MacBook pro. I should probably take it in.
1:27.9	You're right.
1:28.9	You know, this is actually a welcome tie-in to discussion this week.
1:33.5	Basically, Apple's monopoly on MacOS is going to kill you, literally.
1:38.6	That is a pretty good segue of, like, tying it from my personal circumstance into the article.
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