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Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff

Oxide and Friends

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The Playbook and the iPhone

Andy Grove is famous for saying that only the paranoid survive it. I think rimmed just things a lot differently but they believed um you know and we're used now to 15 years of disruption of silicon valley coming in. The carriers were carriers were always terrified of becoming dumb pipes so though like what's wrong with being a dumb pipe when you can pay five percent dividends a year? They never really allowed any of the early two thousands of vintage smartphone providers rim included to to have much of an app store.

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