The Slow Newscast

The new superpowers: Apple

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25:30 | Jan 9th, 2020

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For months, Tortoise has been investigating big tech companies as if they were countries: holding them to the same standards that we apply to nation states; caring about what they think; understanding...Show More



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mm recommended:Feb 1st, 2020

This was an interesting episode about how Big Tech is like nation-state where they have a "constitution", "foreign affairs", "internal affairs", etc. This episode looks at Apple under Tim Cook. Surprising (or not so) that Cook is quite close to Trump. Part of me also thinks that Big Tech is just th...Show More

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mmFeb 1st, 2020

@basia Another great episode! Looking forward to the next analyses.

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mijustin recommended:Jan 30th, 2020

Fascinating question being posed here: what if we treated Apple like it was a nation, instead of a tech company?

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dannyJan 30th, 2020

yes! added to my queue, my buddy @mo has been talking about this idea for a while.

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