Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

By Andrew Sharp and Ben ThompsonTechnology

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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson episodes

February 15, 2024 A Sports Super Bundle, The Next Challenge for Digital Advertising, Zuckerberg Reviews the Apple Vision Pro
A look at the questions surrounding the sports streaming bundle that’s coming from Fox, Disney, and Warner Brothers Discovery, including the challenge of targeting video ads on the internet, why Disney’s bet on sports is a bet on ads, and why Andrew is bearish on the joint venture. At the end: Mark Zuckerberg on the Vision Pro, and Ben takes to Twitter to talk Vision Pro on an airplane.
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@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube
Why Three Media Giants Made a Hail Mary Bet on Sports Streaming — Wall Street Journal
I tried Vision Pro. Here's my take, shot with Quest's high resolution mixed reality passthrough. — Instagram: @zuck
@BenThompson — X
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1 hr 6 min
February 08, 2024 (Preview) The Vision Pro and the Newton, The Case Against AVP as an Entertainment Device, The Most Valuable Tech Product of All
Ben and Andrew begin with a note about a recent Stratechery announcement before to turning their attention to a variety of emails about the Apple Vision Pro.
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@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube
Vision Pro at Work, The Sports Bundle — Stratechery Update
Meta Earnings; Meta, AI, and ATT; Meta’s New Playbook — Stratechery Update
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15 min
February 06, 2024 First Impressions of the Vision Pro: What It Is, What It Might Have Been, and a Note About Guest Mode
Ben and Andrew share first impressions after Andrew demos a Vision Pro and Ben spends 24 hours exploring the AVP at home. Plus: Venting about Apple’s user-hostile guest mode process.
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@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube
The Apple Vision Pro — Stratechery
Apple Vision — Stratechery
Quest vs. Vision, Vision and the Mac, Apple Acquires Mira — Stratechery Update
the thing no one will say about Apple Vision Pro — YouTube: CaseyNeistat
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1 hr 10 min
February 01, 2024 Mailbag: A Navy SEAL on the Vision Pro, Reading 10-Qs, Apple Follow Up, Netflix and Books, Unsolicited Parenting Advice
A new mailbag featuring a comparison between the Vision Pro and night vision goggles, Ben’s process for digesting quarterly earnings news, and some final thoughts on Apple’s approach to the App Store.
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@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube
Google Earnings, Microsoft Earnings — Stratechery Update
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1 hr 4 min
January 30, 2024 (Preview) Google’s Lumiere, The App Store and Lost Innovation, The Tension Between Property Rights and Public Interests
A question about AI video and what sectors it might disrupt, and the latest attempt at Apple regulation promos a conversation about Apple’s property rights and the future of the App Store.
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@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube
Lumiere — Google Research
Apple and the DMA, Apple and “Or”, A Reluctant Apple Apologist — Stratechery Update
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10 min
January 25, 2024 Why Netflix Bet on Wrestling, The Future of Watching Sports, Recapping a Week at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Introducing the Sharp Tech YouTube Channel, understanding why Netflix choose the WWE for its first live rights partner in sports, more on the Vision Pro and watching sports in VR, and recapping Ben’s week in Switzerland at the World Economic Forum.
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@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube
An Interview with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters About Strategy and Execution — Stratechery Interview
Netflix’s Subscribers, Revenue Surge as It Cracks Down on Password Sharing — Wall Street Journal
Amazon and Diamond Sports, Netflix and WWE — Stratechery Update
The secret to Netflix's total dominance — Business Insider
I co-founded Occupy Wall Street. Now I'm headed to Davos. Why? — Guardian
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1 hr 10 min
January 23, 2024 (Preview) Apple's Latest App Store Gambit, iTunes and Macworld Context, Vision Pro Developers on Strike
Apple’s new App Store rules inspire plenty of familiar complaints, while some of the biggest tech companies in the world tell Apple to launch Vision Pro without them.
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Apple’s Testy Developer Relationships Threaten to Hamper Vision Pro — Bloomberg
The Apple Vision Pro’s Missing Apps — Stratechery
The Supreme Court Declines to Hear Apple-Epic, Apple’s (Predictable) Response — Stratechery Update
Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax — The Verge
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12 min
January 16, 2024 (Preview) The Peacock Playoff Experiment, Revisiting the OpenAI Lawsuit, Big Picture Questions After the Boeing Mess
Peacock makes history as the first streaming service to broadcast an NFL playoff game, an emailer asks Chat GPT licensing deals, and Boeing follow-up spawns questions on the future of free markets and humans vs. software.
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What is Peacock? Why the NBC platform is exclusively streaming Chiefs-Dolphins playoff game — The Athletic
Global news publisher Axel Springer partners with OpenAI in landmark deal — Reuters
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21 min
January 10, 2024 (Preview) Another Max Mess for Boeing, Boeing as a Case Study, ESPN and the Vision Pro
The latest failures at Boeing invite fresh scrutiny of the incentive structure, strategy lessons embedded in the company's decline, and why Boeing exemplifies the same mistakes and challenges that the rest of the American industrial base will confront in the years to come. At the end: ESPN eyes an even bigger college football investment and a release date for the Vision Pro.
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Panel on Boeing Plane May Not Have Been Properly Attached, Agency Says — New. York Times
‘I Honestly Don’t Trust Many People at Boeing’: A Broken Culture Exposed — New York Times
The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course — The Atlantic
How Engineering "Took a Back Seat to Finance" at Boeing — WTTW
Inside the strained union of Boeing and Spirit Aerosystems — The Air Current
Apple’s Vision Pro Headset to Go on Sale at US Stores on Feb. 2 — Bloomberg
Sources: College Football Playoff, ESPN discuss 6-year rights contract — ESPN
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11 min
January 08, 2024 The New York Times Sues OpenAI, Napster History vs. ChatGPT Future, Copyright Enforcement at the Aggregator Level
A word about the Packers and microchips, and then reactions to the New York Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, the similarities and differences between past copyright cases with Google and Napster, and a question about automated copyright enforcement.
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The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work — The New York Times
AI’s future could hinge on one thorny legal question — Washington Post
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1 hr 6 min