Episode 033 – Apple Fans and the Future

We discuss Apple’s recent results, why analysts get Apple wrong, the fraught nature of fans, epistemic closure, and whether the iPhone can continue to grow.

Links

  • Ben Thompson: Bad Assumptions – Stratechery
  • Ben Thompson: Apple the Black Swan – Stratechery
  • Ben Thompson: Best – Stratechery
  • Ben Thompson: Smartphone Truths and Samsung’s Inevitable Decline – Stratechery
  • James Allworth: Who Cares if Samsung Copied Apple? – Harvard Business Review (note: due to a website redesign the comments have been lost)
  • Marco Arment: Apple Has Lost the Functional High Ground – Marco.org
  • Marco Arment: What It’s Like to be too Popular for a Day – Marco.org
  • Ben Thompson: iCloud and Apple’s Founding Myth – Stratechery
  • Epistemic Closure – Wikipedia
  • ‘Epistemic Closure’? Those Are Fighting Words – New York Times
  • Ben Thompson: Two Bears – Stratechery
  • Ben Thompson: The End of Trickle-Down Technology – Stratechery
  • Loyalty Gives Apple the Edge Over Android – AllThingsD

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