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[1]Daring Fireball
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By John Gruber
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• [2]Archive
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• [3]The Talk Show
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• [4]Dithering
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• [5]Projects
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• [6]Contact
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• [7]Colophon
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• [8]Feeds / Social
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• [9]Sponsorship
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[10] Material Security
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[11]Material Security:
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Stop scaling headcount. Scale your workspace.
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[12]‘The Brand Age’
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Paul Graham:
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So when you have a world defined only by brand, it’s going to be a
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weird, bad world.
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Graham’s thoughtful essay focuses on the mechanical watch industry. But I
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disagree with his conclusion. I think the market for mechanical watches has
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never been more fun or vibrant than it is today. The action, for me at
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least, isn’t with the high-end luxury Swiss brands. It’s with the indies,
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from companies like [13]Baltic and [14]Halios.
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It’s also interesting to ponder Graham’s essay in the context of other
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industries. I think it’s self evident that the entire market for
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phones — the most popular and lucrative consumer devices in the world — is
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defined by a single brand, and every competitor just copies that one brand
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with varying degrees of shamelessness. That’s bad and weird.
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★ Monday, 30 March 2026
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[17]Display Preferences
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Copyright © 2002–2026 The Daring Fireball Company LLC.
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References:
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[1] https://daringfireball.net/
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[2] https://daringfireball.net/archive/
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[3] https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/
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[4] https://dithering.fm/
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[5] https://daringfireball.net/projects/
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[6] https://daringfireball.net/contact/
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[7] https://daringfireball.net/colophon/
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[8] https://daringfireball.net/feeds/
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[9] https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/
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[10] https://material.security/lp-cloud-office-security?utm_source=third-party&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20260330-daringfireball
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[11] https://material.security/lp-cloud-office-security?utm_source=third-party&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20260330-daringfireball
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[12] https://paulgraham.com/brandage.html
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[13] https://baltic-watches.com/en
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[14] https://halioswatches.com/
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[17] https://daringfireball.net/preferences/
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