Archive for the 'Technology' Category


Spotify’s Share

Apple is under scrutiny for taking a huge slice of in-app purchases and the belief that it favors its own applications over others. This is a fight that has garnered headlines when it comes to gaming, i.e. the Epic Games (Fortnite) lawsuit, but the heavy lifting is being done by the Europeans. And thank god […]

Mrs. Maisel Release Strategy

You give the audience what it wants. You don’t put the shareholders first, you don’t create your business plan in a vacuum, winners take direction from what is in the heads of consumers, and if they’re really savvy, they get ahead of the public and give them what they don’t even know they want, i.e. […]

Re-David Macias/Spotify

Hi Bob- I really appreciate you saying nice things about my contribution to Rolling Stone. I was happy with the piece, and I understand that they have limitations to how long it could be, but I wrote a more detailed breakdown of the issue. I wasn’t expecting RS to just print what I wrote, but […]

David Macias On Spotify

Unfortunately, this “Rolling Stone” article is behind a paywall. But the issue is bigger than that. Today everybody knows more information, some inaccurate, but there is no single outlet that everybody reads, everybody pays attention to. Used to be “Rolling Stone.” Actually, there was a flourishing rock press in the pre-internet era. And despite all […]