108: Malaprops With Guest Ben Thompson

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

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.