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Platformonomics TGIF #137: August 7, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Summer is flying by… News Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers and Unregistered Foreign Agents: Oracle We’ve written at length about the financial risks of Oracle’s Hail Mary scramble…
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Priceless Indeed
Amidst news of Amazon’s apparent surrender today in the war with Macmillan over ebook pricing, the highlighted book on Macmillan’s home page is Priceless, subtitled “The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)”: I haven’t read the book so can’t comment on whether this placement is intentional or ironic, but it…
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iPad Observations
Quick thoughts: It is a Big iPhone Looks nice, but more evolutionary than revolutionary. Price better than expected, but still won’t be racing out to buy one. Expectations were impossible to meet, but Apple gets a lot of blame for setting them so high. Flash in the Pan? I thought after inadvertently showing that Flash…
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Box Movers
When it isn’t too cloudy (weather-wise or work-wise), my office has a great view of Elliott Bay in Seattle, where I see the ships come and go (airplanes too): My new indispensable companion is MarineTraffic.com which uses a network of crowdsourced receivers to pull data off the transponders most ships have and plot them on…
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Live SkiFree or Die
Hey, I actually get this obscure xkcd reference: We did three Entertainment Packs for Windows soon after Windows 3.0 came out (tagline: “Not the most fun you can have with Windows, the only fun”). Each had about eight games. Some like Minesweeper and FreeCell got bundled with subsequent versions of Windows, but I never would…
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It’s Microzilla Time
It is time for Microsoft and Mozilla to make peace and together face their common enemy: Google. For Mozilla, Google is both sole patron and now direct competitor, which is at best strategically awkward. Firefox market share has plateaued. They’re losing their status as the browser of choice amongst the cool kids to Chrome. It…