Mobile
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An Interview with Ryan Jones About Flighty and Building Apps in 2025
An interview with Ryan Jones about Flighty, my favorite iOS app, and how the App Store has evolved over the last 15 years.
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SpaceX Buys More Spectrum, SpaceX’s Pivot, Why Apple and SpaceX Should Partner
SpaceX buys the spectrum it needs to be a standalone mobile carrier; the company should partner with Apple to deliver truly differentiated experiences.
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F1 on Apple TV, Distribution as Differentiation, A Worthwhile Gamble
F1 is officially on Apple TV, and it’s both a worthwhile gamble on Apple’s distribution being a differentiator.
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The Oracle Inflection Point, Apple’s Price Increase
Oracle’s AI commitment requires debt, which marks an inflection point in a potential AI bubble; then, Apple finally increases iPhone prices
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iPhones 17 and the Sugar Water Trap
Apple’s iPhone announcement was impressive, but no one was impressed, because Apple is increasingly peripheral to what is changing the world.
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SpaceX Buys Spectrum, Spectrum Specifics, SpaceX’s Big Bet
SpaceX just made a huge deal for spectrum, but they will still need partners; the real goal is knocking competition out of the game.
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Google Remedy Decision, Reasonable Remedies, The Google Patronage Network
Google lost some battles but won the war in its search distribution case: the Google patronage network was deemed too important to undo.
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Made by Google 2025, AI Trade-offs, Google and the Long-Term
Google’s latest Pixel event re-imagined launch events; it was appropriate given that Google is truly re-imagining the smartphone.
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U.S. Intel
The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.
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Paradigm Shifts and the Winner’s Curse
When paradigms change, previous winners have the hardest time adjusting; that is why AI might be a challenge for Apple and Amazon