Episode 109 — Screw-ups Are Fun!

Ben and James discuss Apple’s Mac Pro screw-up and what it might say about the company and its culture.

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Links

• John Gruber: The Mac Pro Lives — Daring Fireball (daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives)

• Jay Yarow: Phil Schiller on Apple’s Ad Agency in an Email — Business Insider (businessinsider.com/phil-schiller-emails-2014-4)

• Ben Thompson: Whither Liberal Arts — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2013/whither-liberal-arts)

• Apple iPad Air Ad — YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=DZFIrMxaYqc)

• Steve Jobs After the GarageBand Demo During the Introduction of the iPad 2 — YouTube (youtu.be/i5fdUOmyC-0?t=59m43s)

• Ben Thompson: Apple’s Organizational Crossroads — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/apples-organizational-cro…)

• Ben Thompson: From Products to Platforms — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2015/from-products-to-platforms)

• Ben Thompson: Why Doesn’t Apple Enable Sustainable Business on the App Store — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2013/why-doesnt-apple-enable-s…)

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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