Steve Jobs was certainly abrasive. But over his lifetime he got progressively better at judicial application of his abrasiveness. And when his refined abrasion was later connected with substantial influence it became devastatingly effective. I genuinely believe that Jobs would be a more effective public lobbying force than anyone in the tech sector alive today.
This is poor rereporting of good reporting: Cook did not "call Pelosi" - it's pretty clear that the call was arranged, and her staffers were able to listen in, and probably Cook's PR people too. In any case, the link should be to the original article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/technology/amazon-apple-g...
It's incredibly reassuring to hear that he's this scared. Now we know we're getting somewhere.
I'd recommend listening to the latest All-In podcast. Excellent discussion about how antitrust regulations aren't flexible enough to combat what we're seeing today and don't capture the sum total of negative externalities the tech behemoths are inflicting on the market and on consumers. They need to be updated.
And the All-In crew, much to my glee, made a very obvious point I've been reflecting on a lot lately: internet-enabled companies are so effective at monopolization that Peter Thiel laid this out as the explicitly desired outcome in an NYT bestseller, even going to so far as offering a formula to build a monopoly. He also stated in no uncertain terms that the people running these companies would do everything possible to dodge the dreaded M word, for fairly self-evident reasons.
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 33.2 ms ] threadSteve Jobs was always more of an abrasive personality.
That said, Apple should absolutely be receiving antitrust attention.
I'd recommend listening to the latest All-In podcast. Excellent discussion about how antitrust regulations aren't flexible enough to combat what we're seeing today and don't capture the sum total of negative externalities the tech behemoths are inflicting on the market and on consumers. They need to be updated.
And the All-In crew, much to my glee, made a very obvious point I've been reflecting on a lot lately: internet-enabled companies are so effective at monopolization that Peter Thiel laid this out as the explicitly desired outcome in an NYT bestseller, even going to so far as offering a formula to build a monopoly. He also stated in no uncertain terms that the people running these companies would do everything possible to dodge the dreaded M word, for fairly self-evident reasons.