The very clever Josh Knox points me to Steve Jobs’s open letter about Flash. Following up on my last post on double marginalization, he wonders if Apple’s distaste for Flash can be explained in those terms. Josh is absolutely correct. The money sentence in Jobs’s letter is this: Though the operating system for the iPhone, [...]

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Why does Google give out so much cool stuff for free? I have a simple theory, based on the concept of double marginalization. Double marginalization is pretty easy to understand. Imagine that people travel by boat down a river from point A to point B. There is nothing useful in between these points; the only point [...]

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