Yes on point 2 https://
stratechery.com/2025/apple-ais
-platform-pivot-potential/
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@benthompson
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Apple’s AI Platform Pivot: Strategic Implications and Market Impact
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Scott Forstall: Key Figure in Tech Industry History
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In case you’ve always wondered who Scott Forstall is and why he always comes up at times like this, here you go
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Apple App Store Developer Economics and Smartphone AI Value Chain
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I don’t disagree. I’ve been writing about this for as long as I’ve been writing Stratechery. From 2013: https://
stratechery.com/2013/why-doesn
t-apple-enable-sustainable-businesses-on-the-app-store/
… I expounded on this in the context of this Article and AI yesterday: https://
stratechery.com/2025/a-google-
i-o-idea-the-smartphone-ai-value-chain-apples-developer-hang-ups/
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Aggregation Theory: Platforms vs Aggregators
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https://
stratechery.com/concept/aggreg
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iOS Legacy: From NeXT to Unix Foundations
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Core of iOS goes back to NeXT in the 80s. Also has Unix inside which goes back to early 70s
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Using Models to Refine Query Optimization
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I think @buccocapital was the one I remember talking about using models to refine the query
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Policy debate on SME restrictions in technology sector
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I literally said double down on the ban on SME. Maybe read the piece
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Practical AI Use Cases: Text Processing and HTML Reformatting
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The most banal case that I use almost daily is to get rid of line-breaks in copy-and-pasted text from PDFs. A more involved example was refashioning the raw HTML of Deep Research's output into a format that worked for my Update using demo output last week
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Patterns Regex App: Essential Developer Tool for Programming
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(best app ever — use it constantly) https://
apps.apple.com/us/app/pattern
s-the-regex-app/id429449079
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Regex Outperforms Generative AI for Text Manipulation Tasks
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Regex is still better than generative AI for manipulating text.