Episode 140 — The Products They Built Along the Way

Ben and James discuss Apple’s strategy of monetizing its customer base, how that explains HomePod, and whether or not it is a problem.

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Links

• Ben Thompson: Apple’s Middle Age — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2018/apples-middle-age)

• Ben Thompson: Books to Blogs — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/books-and-blogs)

• Ben Thompson: Apple and the Oak Tree — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/apple-and-the-oak-tree)

• Ben Thompson: The Lessons and Questions of the iPhone X and the iPhone 8 — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/the-lessons-and-questions…)

• Ben Thompson: Apple is Not a Services Company — Stratechery Daily Update (stratechery.com/2016/twitter-follow-up-apples-…)

• NOTE: Apple has taken down the supplemental financial information from Q1 2016 that I referred to on this podcast. You can see the old link in this press release (apple.com/newsroom/2016/01/26Apple-Reports-Rec…)

• Ben Thompson: Is HomePod Late? — Stratechery Daily Update (stratechery.com/2017/apple-and-the-oak-tree-fo…)

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

• Ben Thompson: Beyond the iPhone — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/beyond-the-iphone)

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

• Ben Thompson: Apple at Its Best — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/apple-at-its-best)

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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