Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@can @gruber @asymco @benthompson @exponisity @happy_roman Yup but you've been able to buy a bike at half the price of a Peloton for a long time. People who are buying Pelotons want the whole thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@poniewozik NBA bubble games. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@WaltLightShed Indeed. No one (currently) arguing that their message or map service is facing unfair competition from Apple tho. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@CrookedBowtieSC @ambodnar I don't love it but I do subscribe. We're in a pretty small group tho. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Antitrust concerns, btw, are the best argument for Apple *not* bundling music and other services with its devices. Which *would* be a compelling bundle. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@willguyatt They filed their complaint against Apple in 2019; had been going after them long before that. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Spotify, via PR, says Apple bundle that combines music with other services helps make Spotify’s antitrust case, and “threatens our collective freedoms to listen, learn, create, and connect." https://t.co/62KjsEwJ2i — PolitiTweet.org

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I do have Ted Lasso questions tho. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@thattridentdude That's awesome for you. Congrats. My point is that bundles work when they are able to add additional services to one highly successful service, and Apple isn't doing that here. If it did, it would bundle these along with its devices. — PolitiTweet.org

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Getting me to pay more for a thing I do want by adding things I don't want is...difficult. And, again: *Everyone* wants you to buy a subscription to *everything*, and you don't have any more money than you used to have. There's a very good chance you have less. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

If Apple wants to sell all of the above in a bundle connected to the things you actually want — its devices — then it's a thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

*Whoops! Forgot TV. Which wasn't intentional, but is the point. (Obligatory Ted Lasso endorsement goes here.) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

To break it down: *Storage is the most successful Apple service here. *Music the second most successful. *Apple news and games are *not* succesful. *Maybe the fitness thing will appeal to some people, but there are a bunch of those. — PolitiTweet.org

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OK, one more time: A bundle of stuff you don't want is still a bundle of stuff you don't want. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @pkafka: The long-awaited/predicted Apple bundles, coming this fall. The problem: Bundles work when they include the thing people love/w… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Old biz plan: Sell your startup to to a giant tech company. New biz plan: Sell your empty office complex to a giant tech company. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Everything's terrible and I may be in a gulag a year from now. But! Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker and John C. Reilly… https://t.co/2shWjWjIuq — PolitiTweet.org

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@ballmatthew yeet! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@DylanByers Peacock Plus Premium Unleaded — PolitiTweet.org

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They didn’t break out free vs paid. But everyone has access to the free service - I’ve signed up and I don’t have Comcast. And they would would be happy if most people got the free one. They want to sell ads more than subs. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @THECITYNY: NEW: With in-person learning beginning at New York City public schools next week, we’ve got answers to your questions about… — PolitiTweet.org

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@cwarzel Or swap out political campaign for authoritarian government that wants to demonize a minority group etc. Fine stipulating that FB et al can supercharge those efforts. But short of shutting down the internet it is always going to be a low-friction exercise now. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cwarzel I'm just thinking more specifically about what a political campaign that wanted to smear an opponent would do in a fully internet age, instead of relying on mailers and push polls. https://t.co/PgJnKOVuPs — PolitiTweet.org

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@cwarzel Right. But internet isn't going away. So are a lot of mini-Facebooks better or worse than one big Facebook? — PolitiTweet.org

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@cwarzel Or would we better off, because the people who were spreading/consuming it had to work harder to do it? — PolitiTweet.org

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@cwarzel Yeah I didn't mean the specific individuals. I mean, if those specific engines didn't exist — but humans remained human, so incentives to spread and consume noxious content remained — would we be worse off, because it would be dispersed through the internet and harder to corral? — PolitiTweet.org

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@jherskowitz I had not read about the pandemic coke shortage! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@cwarzel Or, to be devil's advocate about it: Wouldn't you rather have Mark/Jack/Susan kinda/sorta/maybe in charge of this stuff instead of... no one? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@cwarzel Same thoughts. So, for the thought exercise: In the absence of huge social media platforms that can't control themselves/their users, what fills that void? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Fun new quarantine game: What Did My Kids Put in the Microwave? https://t.co/HlrQrcCDPS — PolitiTweet.org