Maybe not the reason, but I see his level of abstraction as at an order of magnitude higher than just about any other mainstream tech writer. Making his long posts both unique and somewhat less practical.
I just haven't found anyone else digging in as deep with regard to the fundamental economic differences between Google/Facebook/Amazon and past giants of industry. His recent points on the privacy scandal at FB were very insightful in that he explains how Zuckerburg's problems originated in being in denial that FB is an ad company first and platform second. (If they'd realized that sooner, they never would have given away data like they did, goes his theory. They would have still hoovered up data, but would have avoided recent scandals.)
But can definitely see how it may not speak to everyone the same.
Yeah, see, so I've given up on the details of such grand-scheme meddling of geopolitical results of companies - for these kind of in-detail things you mentioned I'll gladly accept the Guardian/NYT/WaPo level or I'm going to Schneier or Krebs :)
I've no aspirations to start a company ever again, I'm nowhere near Silicon Valley and I'm happily hacking away at small and interesting problems. ;)
I just haven't found anyone else digging in as deep with regard to the fundamental economic differences between Google/Facebook/Amazon and past giants of industry. His recent points on the privacy scandal at FB were very insightful in that he explains how Zuckerburg's problems originated in being in denial that FB is an ad company first and platform second. (If they'd realized that sooner, they never would have given away data like they did, goes his theory. They would have still hoovered up data, but would have avoided recent scandals.)
But can definitely see how it may not speak to everyone the same.