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Hard to disentangle that from quarterly being the US standard, what with it being the most robust capital markets and nexus of major financial transactions.

The Robber Barons weren't in the 1920s; that refers to industrial age monopolists (e.g. rail/oil), and culminated in the Sherman Antitrust (i.e. 1800s). Broadly, your point is stil…

> Apple managed to become the most valuable company in the world without ads. Yeah, but what about next quarter? Jokes aside, they're not the most valuable company anymore. Nvidia …

Hi, thanks for pointing this out! Two questions: 1. Do you think that inaccuracy undercuts the point? If so, I'll correct the article; if not, I'll include it as a note in my plann…

Ah, okay, gotcha!

> But I think your underestimating the significance of standing up Proton I don't think I'm underestimating it at all. Proton and SteamOS were huge, they were extremely well-timed,…

The "in reverse" framing was largely in reference to the fact that Apple built the software ecosystem after getting loyal hardware consumers, whereas Valve got loyal software users…

Thanks for turning that up; edited into the article with credit to you!

>> that this is actually Steam Machine 2.0. Valve already tried this a decade ago, and it flopped. > I find this framing to be beyond maddening [...] > It was also a thoughtful par…

> I always laugh when a media outlet uses ProtonDB as an example I'm not a media outlet! Just some dope who noticed a thing and wanted to get the thought that wouldn't leave out in…

I'm happy to edit to correct, but my own experience on Steam Deck has been that anything that's platinum (or native, but that goes without saying) basically just works, minor UI is…

> Well, Valve got seriously concerned about the Windows Store, like, a decade ago... Yeah, I briefly addressed that concern in the article as a comparison to Facebook; probably cou…

Excellent, another sector tending towards monopoly. As we all know, markets work best when everyone is allowed to merge with/buy out one another!

> Because you’re trusting both apple and the third party jointly, each of whom have different incentives. The cynical view, of course, is that Apple's incentive and the Third Party…