Episode 099 — Fate Has a Sense of Irony

Ben and James discuss Amazon Alexa and the history of operating systems

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Links

• Is That an Echo? — Exponent Episode 070 (exponent.fm/episode-070-is-that-an-echo)

• Ben Thompson — The Amazon Tax (stratechery.com/2016/the-amazon-tax)

• We Have Always Been at War with Amazon — Exponent Episode 081 (exponent.fm/episode-081-we-have-always-been-at…)

• Ben Thompson: Alexa: Amazon’s Operating System — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/amazons-operating-system)

• Voice Recognition Technology — YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ)

• Ben Thompson: The Truth About Windows Versus the Mac — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2013/apple-open-and-learning-f…)

• Ben Thompson: Aggregation Theory — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory)

• Ben Thompson: Beyond Disruption — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2015/beyond-disruption)

• Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Great News — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2013/mobile-makes-facebook-jus…)

• James Allworth: The Blessing of Failure — Medium (medium.com/@jamesallworth/the-blessing-of-fail…)

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson (twitter.com/benthompson), Stratechery (stratechery.com)

• James Allworth, @jamesallworth (twitter.com/jamesallworth), Harvard Business Review (hbr.org/search?term=James+Allworth&sort=po…)

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