Whenever there’s an economic upheaval, there’s two kinds of dancing that emerges: line dancing and slam dancing.
Late 1970s, you had disco and you had punk at the exact same time.
In the early 1990s, you had the emergence of country line dancing and you had grunge.
There’s an idea of freeform negation that happens in things like punk. And there’s things like rigid conformity that happens in at least the white version of disco that took over in the 70s and country line dancing.
Yes, this is about more than music.
Brands are culture.
Is yours punk or disco?
Manton Reece on Apple’s EU App Store game:
Because of their decades of truly great products, Apple thinks they are more clever than anyone else. Because of their focus on privacy, Apple thinks they are righteous. Because of their financial success, Apple thinks they are more powerful than governments. The DMA will test whether they’re right.
Apple is trading on brand reputation and trust, which is a dangerous game. Once it’s gone, it’s very hard to get back.
I wonder how much of this is driven by needing a revenue engine not tied to user data for AI, since their privacy stance makes it hard.
Netflix Inc. has acquired the exclusive rights to Raw as well as other programming from World Wrestling Entertainment, marking the video service’s first big move into live events.
via Bloomberg
Streaming is about catalog. Live events add a wrinkle to the traditionally bingeable streamer line ups.
Wrestling is likely cheaper than one of the major sports leagues, but has a devoted fan base.
Netflix’s aim now is to add a bunch of different pieces to their catalog to keep the subscription sticky as churn and rebundling accelerates.
When Amazon was going through a difficult time after the dot com bust, Jim Sinegal and Jeff Bezos met for coffee and Sinegal explained to Bezos that there are two kinds of companies. The first focus on extracting value to[from?] customers and the second focuses on always giving customers value. Costco was firmly the second kind.