(Preview) Mailbag Monday: Sports Gambling Apps; PlayStation’s New Price Point; Robotics and AI Upheaval; Apple’s ‘Intelligence’ Ads

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to get all episodes of Sharp Tech, plus Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Sharp China, Greatest of All Talk and Dithering.

---

To email the show: [e-mail]

---

@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube

@Stratechery Channel — YouTube

---

Unity Scraps Runtime Fee, Back to Reality, Sony PlayStation Pro — Stratechery Update

OpenAI’s New Model, How o1 Works, Scaling Inference — Stratechery Update

Copilot Pages, Salesforce Agents — Stratechery Update

Apple store employees hype the iPhone 16 — X: @9to5mac

Apple Intelligence | Custom memory movies | iPhone 16 Pro — Apple YouTube Channel

How to Have Interesting Ideas (The Ben Thompson Playbook) — How I Write

---

• Add Stratechery to your podcast player
• Add Dithering to your podcast player
• Add Sharp China to your podcast player
• Add Greatest Of All Talk to your podcast player

---

Subscription Information

Member: Lewis Bird
Email: [e-mail]

Manage your account