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Ben Thompson Explains the XBOX Disaster

aired Jul 08, 2026
Signal
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confidence 0.99
Orig48.2
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Dens100.0
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Clty55.2
Summary

Speaker 1: Ben Thompson, the founder of Strathecory. Does it feel like a slow news cycle to you?.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of speaker, like, yeah, including: He's been on an absolute tear during a slow news cycle.

Key takeaways
  1. 01And I think it stems with DirectX, The it's the graphics layer that allowed games to be run on multiple graphics cards
  2. 02There's actually a really interesting Twitter back and forth with the old id people talking about Quake and how basically they obliterated the company by burning everyone out by wa
  3. 03Craftsmanship years and years and years of blood and sweat and tears Yeah
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