Why every app has a subscription:

My use of Paper is an essential part of stratechery, yet I needed to only pay $8.99 for two in-app purchases, for which I never need to pay again. That’s a hell of a bargain, but it’s ultimately unsustainable.

Ben Thompson in Stratechery: Papering Over App Store Problems

Smartphone, a.k.a. expensive handcuffs

I don’t want to get a $800 phone and then lose or drop it and feel horrible afterwards. I don’t even use my phone all that much and I have no apps or fancy stuff on it.

You get yourself a fancy phone and then you put the fancy stuff that goes into your fancy phone and bam, your life is not as simple as it was anymore.

Poetry in (slow) motion, January 3, 2017 at 11:28PM