Ben and James discuss the recent App Store controversy and how a person – or company’s – greatest strength is also their greatest weakness. Plus a special 2nd recording about the Harvard business school professor and the Chinese restaurant.

Links

• Cabel Sasser: Transmit iOS 1.1.1 [Updated] – Panic blog
• Greg Gardner: Launcher Followup and Thoughts on the App Store Review System – Cromulent Labs
• Ben Thompson: App Store Anguish, Old Apple’s Last Stand, Time for a Change? – Stratechery (members-only)
• Ben Thompson: Why Doesn’t Apple Enable Sustainable Businesses on the App Store? – Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: The Diminished iPad – Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: Pleco: Building a Business, Not an App – Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: Uber and Portland, Uber and India – Stratechery (members-only)
• Sriram Krishnan: In defense of Uber in India – Medium
• Ben Thompson: Best – Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: What Steve Jobs Wouldn’t Have Done – Stratechery
• Ben Edelman: Google’s Advertising Labeling in 2014 – BenEdelman.org
• Ben Edelman: Facebook Leaks Usernames, User IDs, and Personal Details to Advertisers – BenEdelman.org
• Who is Ben Edelman, Sheriff of the (Chinese Food) Internet? – Boston.com
• Making Delicious Cocktails with America’s Best Bartender – GQ

Hosts

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

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