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Platformonomics TGIF #141: October 2, 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 I’ve been pacing my output here (for the good of humanity naturally), but am now back in the saddle. Consider yourselves warned. My Writing BREAKING: Meta Announces…
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Fake Steve Unmasked – A Nation Mourns
It was bound to happen eventually Dan. I had you pegged but have to admit my theory included a west coast co-conspirator. Please sustain it even if all the ‘tards now know your name. And don’t let Forbes.com split every post across ten pages as they are wont to do…
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The IBM LBO Continues…
[From last week’s IBM earnings announcement] Revenue up $1.8 billion for the quarter. Hard to tell what organic growth was but probably very low single digits. Repurchased $14.6 billion in stock and the number of outstanding shares down over 6% in the quarter. Debt to fund the buyback up $12 billion in the last six months (up…
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It’s the Balance of Profits, Stupid
More fodder for the irrelevance of trade deficit figures in a piece by Hal Varian in the New York Times via a reader of Greg Mankiw’s blog (whew!) on the contributions of various countries involved in the manufacture of the iPod and the associated accounting in the trade statistics:I found this article by Hal Varian, and a sentence…
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Fog in Cable, Continent Cut Off
24/7, except when it’s not. Geometrically I guess that would be a single line of failure.
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There is No Free Lunch (Continued)
Glass half full view: welcome the occasional capriciousness of cloud services like a snow day.Glass half-empty view: maybe highly centralized architectures that assume everything always works are not the best approach…