Platform Power
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Sony Just Killed the Right to Own Games
When you buy a disc you own a property right. When you buy a digital license you lease one — and Sony just decided which world we all live in starting 2028.
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Europe Built a Sovereign ID on American Rails
You cannot build digital sovereignty on top of a stack you don't control — and the EU just built its national ID system on Google and Apple's trust layer.
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Samsung Just Taxed the Open Smart Home
When you own the device but rent the protocol, you don't own the device.
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LastPass Proves Trust Cannot Be Patched
LastPass's core asset is the vault — and the asset that makes them valuable makes them dangerous to own. That's not a fixable architecture problem; it's a product design contradiction.
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SpaceX Buying Cursor Changes Everything About Developer Tools
SpaceX isn't buying a coding tool — it's buying the layer where software thinking happens, and the option to route it through xAI before anyone notices the switch.
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The YouTube Bar Was Always Higher
Hollywood didn't get disrupted by cheaper cameras. It got disrupted by a harder selection filter — and now the box office data makes that undeniable.