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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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Sony and the Joy of Overpriced Netbooks
Only Sony could produce a netbook that costs $900. Their clever strategy: declare that it isn’t a netbook. Let’s see small size, a small screen short on vertical resolution, an awkward keyboard, limited storage, wireless broadband, comes in multiple colors — sure smells like a netbook to me. How is this three times better than…
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Regulating the Land that Moore’s Law Forgot
And so we come full circle: “IBM accused of abusing position in European mainframe market”. Out of the limelight, IBM has spent significant time and money lobbying various governments to hobble competitors in the last fifteen years, all the while maintaining the biggest monopoly in technology with the mainframe. Now the antitrust spotlight returns to…
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Circling the Drain – More Time for the Times (of New York)
Slim is in for newspapers. Not only is the Times (of Seattle) getting slimmer and slimmer, but the Times (of New York) is getting slim too with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. Silicon Alley Insider reports: Carlos Slim has loaned the New York Times (NYT) $250 million. This further lessens the immediate cash crisis and should…
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Don’t miss the discussion on CNBC between Dan “Fake Steve Jobs” Lyons and CNBC’s own Jim Goldman on the topic of Apple’s mendacity about Steve Jobs’ health and whether Goldman’s coverage of this topic was misleading, incompetent or merely lazy. You can’t really hear a lot of what they are saying, but it is pretty…
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Circling the Drain – “End Times” in May?
The Atlantic asks “can America’s paper of record survive the death of newsprint?” (hat tip to Steve): Virtually all the predictions about the death of old media have assumed a comfortingly long time frame for the end of print the moment when, amid a panoply of flashing lights, press conferences, and elegiac reminiscences, the newspaper…