Episode 081 — We Have Always Been at War with Amazon

Ben and James explain why Alexa is an even bigger deal than it seems, and why both Apple and Google should fear Amazon. Plus, why Microsoft’s challenges are only beginning.

Links

• Ben Thompson: The Amazon Tax — Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: Jeff Bezos at the Code Conference — Stratechery Daily Update
• Jeff Bezos Intervew at the Code Conference: Video, Podcast, Live Blog
• Now We’re Talking: Amazon Alexa Comes to Pebble Core — Pebble
• Ben Thompson: Twilio Files for IPO — Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: Google’s Go-to-Market Gap — Stratechery
• James Allworth: The Blessing of Failure — Medium
• Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App, That’s Great News — Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: The Curse of Culture — Stratechery
• Microsoft Board Mulls Sales Force Revamp to Speed Shift to Cloud — Bloomberg
• Ben Thompson: Redmond and Reality — Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: The Disruption of IBM — Stratechery Daily Update

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
• James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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