108: Malaprops With Guest Ben Thompson

Published: Jan. 24, 2015, 7:40 p.m.

b'Topics include Apple\\u2019s pseudo \\u201csabbaticals\\u201d (employees who leave the company but then return after a year or two); Google\\u2019s cultural similarities to Microsoft; the ways that Apple (and iOS users) might miss Scott Forstall; accessibility as a high priority for Apple; Instagram\\u2019s success (and how they effectively ate Hipstamatic\\u2019s lunch); a debate on just how \\u201csimple\\u201d Twitter is; Box\\u2019s successful IPO, and Dropbox\\u2019s support for Yosemite\\u2019s official Finder integration for such services; MIT economist Jonathan Gruber pissing in my Google juice; Chromebooks; Amazon\\u2019s overall strategy, and the colossal failure of their Fire Phone; and, lastly, a good chunk on Microsoft\\u2019s Windows 10/HoloLens event last week.'