while I still can’t think of a need for the announced Apple VR/AR headset, one thing I haven’t seen many people talk about is Apple adding the Pro Tag to the product name. Usually Apple ads the Pro tag after several iterations of a product, here it’s in version one. This makes me wonder what the non Pro version will look like. My number one guess would be the outward facing screen will be gone in a plain/regular version. But beyond that I have a hard time to think of ways to cut cost while keeping it justify a price premium over Oculus headsets … in a way a non Pro version would have to be in the $999 price range I think to make it become close to competitive and be a success for Apple.

The capitalist case for taxing business … I couldn’t agree more.

The rationale of the C-suite is transparent: what we deny the common purse, we redress, or at least muddy, in other ways. It is not just guilt that makes a multinational speak the argot of the cultural left. It is not just naïveté that induces a bank to hire phalanxes of grifting sustainability consultants. It is calculation. A sly fox is throwing hounds off the scent. If I am right, then it follows that higher, better-enforced taxes spell the end of the simpering corporation.

When AOL bought TimeWarner I wrote that it was a stupid acquisition … I had the same view with the AT&T acquisition of TimeWarner … and Amazon buying MGM is equally wrong. AOL, AT&T, and Amazon are all pipes, and pipes and content don’t match. The difference with Amazon is just that unlike AOL and AT&T they have crazy amounts of cash and don’t really care about making money off this.