Mailbag: Adobe and Antitrust, Engagement Quality vs. Quantity, The Cult of Musk, Porcupine Lore

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

Sep 22, 2022•11 min

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Mailbag: Adobe and Antitrust, Engagement Quality vs. Quantity, The Cult of Musk, Porcupine Lore

Adobe-Figma antitrust questions, the pluses and minuses of ignoring user complaints, how Twitter hype led to real infrastructure at Tesla, a word about porcupines.

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Adobe Tumbles After Deal to Buy Figma for About $20 Billion — Bloomberg

Adobe Acquires Figma, Figma’s Disruption, The Figma OS — Stratechery Update

Launch Follow-Up, Figma Feedback, More on Antitrust and Acquisitions — Stratechery Update

An Interview With The Verge Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel About Building a Destination Site — Stratechery Interview

It's a Tesla — Stratechery

Mistakes and Memes — Stratechery

What the Fox Knows — 538

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