{"podcast":{"title":"Christopher Lochhead Follow Your Different™","slug":"christopher-lochhead-follow-your-different-325792","podcast_index_feed_id":325792,"rss_url":"https://lochhead.com/feed/podcast/","website_url":"https://lochhead.com/","image_url":"https://lochhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/lochheadartwork.png","author":"Christopher Lochhead","episode_count":300,"summary":"Christopher Lochhead | Follow Your Different is pioneer in real dialogue podcasts. “The best business podcast” – Podcast Magazine “The worst business podcast” – Neil Pearlberg","last_synced_at":"2026-09-20T08:20:18.149973+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/christopher-lochhead-follow-your-different-325792"},"episode":{"title":"460 Apple Is Seven Years Late To The Fold And Takes 44% Of The Money | The Pirate Street Journal","slug":"460-apple-is-seven-years-late-to-the-fold-and-takes-44-of-the-money-the-pirate-street-journal","published_at":"2026-09-16T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/christopher-lochhead-follow-your-different-325792/460-apple-is-seven-years-late-to-the-fold-and-takes-44-of-the-money-the-pirate-street-journal","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/christopher-lochhead-follow-your-different-325792","url":"https://lochhead.com/fyd-apple-fold-psj-2026/","audio_url":"https://media.blubrry.com/legends_and_losers/content.blubrry.com/legends_and_losers/460_FYD-PSJ_20_Apple_Fold_2026.mp3","summary":"The business press loves a simple story. A new product launches, a stock drops, a company stumbles, and the headlines write themselves. But what gets lost in that noise is the deeper logic driving these events, the category design lens that explains not just what happened, but why it matters. From the Apple Fold to the so-called SaaS apocalypse to Nike’s staggering collapse, the real stories are hiding just beneath the surface of what most journalists choose to cover. This episode of The Pirate Street Journal breaks down three major business topics through that lens. Christopher, Eddie, and Bri take a hard look at the week’s most important business news and share what the Wall Street Journal and the rest of the mainstream press consistently miss. The result is a faster, sharper, and more honest read on how business actually works. You’re listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different . We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let’s go.   Apple Fold: Seven Years Late and Still Winning Apple entered the foldable smartphone category with the iPhone Duo at a starting price of $1,999, seven years after Samsung launched its first foldable in 2019. The category has actually been shrinking, with shipments down 15% in the first half of the year. Yet analyst firm IDC projects Apple will capture 44% of all foldable revenue in 2026, before the device even has ten weeks on shelves. The pricing strategy here is no accident. By launching a $2,000 to $3,000 device alongside modest $100 price increases on its Pro lineup, Apple made those increases feel minor by comparison. This is a well-worn Apple Playbook: enter late, enter premium, and use design and ecosystem to cement a category…","meta_description":"The business press loves a simple story. A new product launches, a stock drops, a company stumbles, and the headlines write themselves. But what gets lost…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2533,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/christopher-lochhead-follow-your-different-325792/episodes/460-apple-is-seven-years-late-to-the-fold-and-takes-44-of-the-money-the-pirate-street-journal/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/christopher-lochhead-follow-your-different-325792/460-apple-is-seven-years-late-to-the-fold-and-takes-44-of-the-money-the-pirate-street-journal.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}