Exponent 163 — Publishers vs Apple News

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Ben and James discuss Apple News as it is today, where Apple wants to take it in the future, and why publishers should push back. Links Ben Thompson: The Cost of Apple News — Stratechery Ben Thompson: What Direct-to-Consumer Publishers are Selling — Stratechery Daily Update Apple News’s Radical Approach: Humans Over Machines — New York Times Publishers Chafe at Apple’s Terms for Subscription News Service — Wall Street Journal Ben Thompson: Apple Should Buy Netflix — Stratechery The Report of the 2020 Group — New York Times Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast … Continue reading Exponent 163 — Publishers vs Apple News

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:01.0	Ben, how are you?
0:03.0	Just in all of our ability to continue powering through and pumping out ex-funded podcast,
0:07.6	no matter what stands in our way.
0:09.0	I flew to the other side of the Pacific just to be closer to you this week.
0:13.0	That's right.
0:14.0	It's funny, I don't think people realize how large Asia is.
0:18.0	Like, people will be flying over to like another Asian country, like, hey, you know,
0:21.5	is that far away from you?
0:22.7	I'm like, yeah, that's what the distance is from New York to L.A.
0:25.0	Or something like that.
0:26.6	I'm a little closer than that, but not a lot.
0:29.2	Yeah, not much.
0:29.9	Probably more like Chicago to L.A.
0:31.3	You are in Singapore this week.
0:33.2	Trust that's okay to disclose that.
0:34.7	Yes, yes, Singapore. Yes, it is in fact, I just close to
0:38.2	quickly. It is almost exactly the distance from Chicago and Los Angeles from Taipei to Singapore.
0:42.1	So you are on the other side of the world. You are in a hotel room on a travel mic.
0:45.5	We did get some feedback about some audio issues last week. I'm actually not sure what happened at all,
0:51.2	but we will try to pay attention to those in post and make sure nothing
0:54.6	went on. I apologize for that. But let's do this. Let's power through. Fingers crossed that it works
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