https://t.co/4WmYFW5gZT
Neither brutal nor truth. A page filler with few and misrepresented facts and no insight. Just obscure dire innuendo and dog whistles for the collectivists.
https://t.co/pl7SAo0HtL
Mr Krugman is such an easy target I wonder if he is just trolling. This piece expends 1.5k words on choosing the measure of inflation that shows less of it. 'Do not kill the messenger', they used to say. Prof says 'pick the gentler messenger.'
2. Gaming, again through customer choice, has far reaching influence on other aspects of life because it shapes Apple dominance. In other words, silly time wasters (no offense intended to their users) impact everyone's ability to benefit of life critical services.
Do not know the guy or his politics, but this seems a lucid, though not synthetic, analysis of Apple's biz model.
A couple of takeaways:
1. Apple's grip is rooted in customer's choice for convenience over independence
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