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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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Conspiracy Theorizing
Reaction to the disclosure of University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit internal email is predictably bimodal. “Deniers” see it as conclusive proof global warming is a fraud. True believers are righteously ignoring the contents altogether because of how the information was acquired (it took me a while to get a Pentagon Papers reference this…
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I Went to China and All I Got Was This Lousy iPhone
Apple is getting grief for what appears to be an underwhelming launch of the iPhone in China. It is not really a surprise – China is awash in fake and gray market iPhones. When you walk down the street, the street hawkers greet you with “Watch, DVD, iPhone”. Why settle for the WiFi-less plain old…
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This Nobel Prize Thing
I find myself perplexed by this inexplicable award. Has the Nobel prize selection committee completely lost its senses? I mean, what exactly is “the landscape of the dispossessed” and how do you win the Nobel prize in literature for writing about it? Why isn’t there more discussion of this bizarre choice? I know there is…
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PHuW!™
I have a theory that companies peak soon after they make big, bold, public and very round revenue forecasts of fifty billion or more. Basically, they’re so busy trying to grow to the sky they miss important changes in the market and/or hubris gets the better of them. In some cases, the wheels come off…
