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Platformonomics TGIF #142: October 9, 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 Sigh. News Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers and Unregistered Foreign Agents: Oracle Part II We really can’t expect Oracle to abide by the spirit or letter of the…
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Math as a Service
DreamBox Learning just launched with a K-2 math curriculum. While most educational software leaves something to be desired, DreamBox provides deep and individualized instruction that kids actually find fun. My kids have been beta testing it for several months and continue to ask to play. Hard to think of a better test than that. From…
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Say It Ain’t So
Flight Simulator is the biggest product casualty of the Microsoft layoffs? The layoffs are a sad day for all the people affected and a disappointing milestone for the company, but Flight Sim is an industry institution dating back three decades. It is painful to see as I was the Flight Simulator product manager early in…
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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…