Episode 156 — Rent-Seeking

Exponent is back, kind of.

Ben and James talk about Apple’s case in front of the Supreme Court, and debate whether the company is acting anti-competitively with its App Store policies.

Links

• Ben Thompson: Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2018/antitrust-the-app-store-a…)

• Ben Thompson: Apple App Store Follow-up — Stratechery Daily Update (stratechery.com/2018/apple-app-store-follow-up…)

• Apple Inc. v. Robert Pepper, et al. oral arguments — Supreme Court of the United States (supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_trans…)

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

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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