The mobile ecosystem for applications was just a complete so before apple came along with the aptore, and they had the consumer relationship because people loved the devices. Apple modularized the development and became the central choke point with the apstor that allowed the developers to then reach the consumers,. But only by going through apple.
Ben and James discuss Spotify’s move into podcasts and integration and modularity in value chains.
Links
- Ben Thompson: Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Lessons From Spotify — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Podcasts, Analytics, and Centralization — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: The Future of Podcasting — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: The BuzzFeed Lesson — Stratechery
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