Ben Thompson
speaker
41,192 appearances
118 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 39 in all, peaking in Mar 2026 with 5.
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That's that's what Apple needs to get back to, is it just works.
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Yeah.
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And
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one boy on or two boy ons?
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Uh
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Because Boyon's last sentence completely refutes like the first like five sentences.
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If in fact Apple AI is just another very useful software layer, then that means Apple is in fact thinking different by not spending hundreds of billions of dollars and going their own way and sticking with the iPhone paradigm.
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So which is it, boy?
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I'm like, I don't feel like I don't even need to answer.
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demonstrably anchoring themselves in the iPhone paradigm.
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That doesn't mean it's wrong.
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Like that was a point I was trying to like I had
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I didn't love my article this week for a few reasons.
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One of which was this.
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I had to rewrite the like the ending like multiple times because I was trying to say, look, all these critiques, like Boyon's critique is totally legitimate.
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Apple's totally doing what's best for them.
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They're totally doing what makes sense for their model.
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They're totally not investing in things that they're probably not good at.
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And all they're not thinking any differently than they were over the last
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All these things, but when you articulate that companies are doing what is good for them and in their interest, and like the it's usually followed by a, but the world's different now, and this is totally wrong thinking.
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