It's my first appearance on This Week In Tech since leaving Fortune and launching Apple 3.0.
[UPDATE: That's done. No animals were harmed. The video is available on twit.tv.]
I'm on tonight at 6:00 p.m. Eastern (3 p.m. Pacific) with host Leo Laporte and special guests Christina Warren and Stacey Higginbotham. Tune in here.
Among the topics: Apple's doom, Gawker's undoing, Peter Thiel's long memory.
I'll be joining the conversation from my new home among the hippie farmers of Western Massachusetts. See map:
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BTW, and OT, but I just got turned on to this over at Braeburn:
https://techpinions.com/part-1-who-is-apple-innovating-for/45469
I live in Questionably New England and visit Hell as often as I can.
Break a leg…
It should have been “Apple is doomed – again!” or “Apple is doomed – for the nth time!”.
Apple’s cash – NOT valued by the market, guys and gals!
Beautiful boxes – better spent on Ethiopian children? Yeah, well…. Are we trying to sell here? You know; compete?
Apple is the Donald Trump of tech???? Yikes!
OK. So far, lot’s of put-downs, and not much actual fact. Not exactly impressed. Sorry, PED….
EVERYONE takes pot shots at Apple. Hey, here’s a concept – why not take pot shots at Apple’s competitors! Here’s one: Amazon has a head start on the Cloud – but it also built that Cloud on dirty polluting data centers. Apple? Clean as a friggin’ whistle.
Assuming there’s a next time, we 3.0 contributors should live blog again, and you should watch our live blog as the show progresses, reporting a bit on what we’re saying if it seems appropriate. Last night’s show was frankly a bit of an echo chamber.
For example, regarding the Google “win” over Oracle, when Mr. Laporte said “The good guys won, everyone agree?” Yipes!
The Apple Car:
Apple may not start selling in the U.S. especially since non-polluting, reasonably priced, vehicles are needed even in – maybe especially in – poorer countries.
Tesla’s are for the uber-wealthy, not the common man. Apple will build a car for the common man – the modern equivalent of the Model T.
And IMHO the big change Apple is going to make is to the production end. Imagine a car that can be rebuilt and refurbished like an iPhone. Think Liam for automobiles….
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ped30.com: Fortune et al: Print ad dollars for internet pennies. It’s all about clicks!
Phillip has taken another tack: Pay per view. It’s a gamble, but it lets him stay honest and not give a darn about click baiting. Fortunately, he’s got a “long runway”.
1. Owning the emails of subscribers is what it’s all about.
2. Loves his supporters.
An opportunity to honestly serve your “customer”. Exactly. Gee. Kind of like Apple….
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The Death of Old Media:
Question: How much of New Media being crap is because nobody wants to pay for anything?
Maybe we’ve literally gotten what we’ve paid for?
The Death of Old Media:
Journalists out of work. Craig’s List has taken ad revenue away.
The Echo Chamber – EVERYONE just echoes – especially things that get “hits” – like attacking Apple, even when it’s with zero proof.
A lack of legwork – THAT’S what we no longer have!
The public rewarding “good work”; how can we the public be empowered to do that?
The Right Thing To Do versus the Profitable Thing To Do – plutocrats can afford to do the Right Thing. Possibly, but also – the Wrong Thing!
There is the whole issue of ethics in reporting that’s being danced around here. The inference is that ethical reporting just doesn’t pay. We’re back to the need of finding a means for the public to reward ethical reporting.
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I think I’m glad I never read “Gawker”….
Google vs Oracle:
Ah. Another ethical issue! “Do no evil…” as long as it’s YOUR definition of evil! Ownership? Intellectual property?
Why do we keep dancing around this issue of “ownership”? Yes, the young think everything should be free. Does that make them automatically right? I don’t THINK so….
Oracle says “this is bad for open source”. Maybe because someone ripped off and “chilled” the willingness to do anything but “closed source”.
“The good guys one, everyone agree?” Um, no. I don’t agree.
Ah, the “standard” argument. We NEED to “steal” that because it needs to be a “standard”. Screw the creator/owner. Yeah, right.
Now we blame Sun for “allowing” Google to steal! The fact that Sun maybe couldn’t have afforded it at the time…. Money talks. Money makes morality. Yuck!
Was Ellison helping Jobs? Jeez, I hope so!
Oh, and now the guy who makes sense about Google being scum is suspect because he “was once paid by Oracle”. Do you guys even hear what you’re saying?
Paid versus commercial. “Arthur Godfrey” ads – now there’s a memory from the past!
I LIKE that there’s no commercials on ped30! But PED has to pay the bills.
But I go back to this observation: You, Phillip, are FOCUSED on Apple and AAPL (maybe why it’s called Apple 3.0…?); so where are the Apple/AAPL questions for you??? And I don’t mean the “Apple is the Donald Trump of tech” garbage….
“Women have been chased off the internet.” Or maybe they just don’t like wasting their time with a bunch of airheads and loudmouths.
And there is almost certainly an issue of anonymity; you can let your jaws flap because nobody knows who you really are.
I’d also suspect that a “pay wall” is going to separate a lot of wheat from chaff.
Windows 10 upgrades: Yeah, it’s free, but… People are being automatically upgraded! – then forced to uninstall if they didn’t want the upgrade!
I predict that Apple is going to benefit from this….
“Deceptive is where we’re headed”? Not for Apple users!
VR has a BIG issue; actual focal point versus “virtual” focal point creating nausea, confusion, and disorientation. Don’t drive for 24 hours after being in a simulator!
Well, that’s worth the price of admission right there. Thanks, TWIT!
Been known about for 20 years – so maybe we now know why Apple isn’t rushing into this. Maybe they’ve known this and are taking the time to “do it right”. Wouldn’t that be a kick – Apple finally comes out, has the problem solved, and and wins ALL the business!
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Well, that’s it. I don’t know if anyone cares about my reactions, but PED, you left me alone, and I paid my dues, so….
Yeah. I won’t do it again if I get a lot of objections.
I think the show will be available as a podcast, btw.