The best Stratechery content from the week of June 9, 2025, including Apple’s Retreat at WWDC, Apple in China, and the upside ...

Apple’s WWDC was a retreat from not just last year’s WWDC, but potentially a broader reset for the company. That’s why it was a great presentation.

An Interview with “Apple in China” Author Patrick McGee about Apple’s reluctant shift to outsourcing and how its position relative to its supply chain has shifted over time.

Meta is reportedly buying 49% of Scale AI and hiring CEO Alexandr Wang; this seems to be deal about fixing Llama, not about Scale AI.

With Stratechery Plus you get access to the subscriber-only Stratechery Update and Stratechery Interviews, and the Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Dithering, Greatest of All Talk, and Asianometry podcasts. A ...

Ethan Zuckerman wrote in The Atlantic in 2014: I have come to believe that advertising is the original sin of the web. The fallen state of our Internet is a direct, if unintentional, consequence of ...