# Beachheads and Obstacles – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

<https://stratechery.com/2019/beachheads-and-obstacles/>

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- Saved: October 3, 2019 (2019-10-03T12:15:31Z)
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- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/86ec35c2711f.json

## What Jamie wrote

Great writing, as always, from Ben Thompson on Amazon and Facebook's recent product announcements and how they are trying to strategically vie with Apple and Google.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT120: Weekly Thing #120 / Oct 5, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/120/), Notable Links 📌

## Same host

- [The iPhone and Apple’s Services Strategy – Stratechery by Ben Thompson](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0bd549f71e02/) (stratechery.com, September 12, 2019)
- [The China Cultural Clash – Stratechery by Ben Thompson](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/302514ff1104/) (stratechery.com, October 9, 2019)
- [Google and Ambient Computing – Stratechery by Ben Thompson](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e82fbceb3c77/) (stratechery.com, October 17, 2019)
- [The Internet and the Third Estate – Stratechery by Ben Thompson](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fa105ac263ef/) (stratechery.com, October 22, 2019)
- [Tech and Liberty – Stratechery by Ben Thompson](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3fa8b78569a1/) (stratechery.com, November 5, 2019)

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- [52 Things I Know At 52 – Rhoneisms](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f7c1ae0d9fd2/) (patrickrhone.net, October 3, 2019)
- [Where to find the hours to make it happen | Derek Sivers](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/017084605ee4/) (sivers.org, October 3, 2019)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://stratechery.com/2019/beachheads-and-obstacles/