That’s right: full team coverage: all our resources were devoted to covering Apple and their WWDC this week. They released new hardware: Macs, iPads, and a HomePod. They also made updates to watchOS, macOS and iOS, with improvements to Siri, AR and machine learning. We had a ton of notes below digging into each of the different parts below.
217: 📱👍😂🚖💾
So it turns out that we were already on the edge of pop culture. I went looking for the tears of joy emoji to use as your picture, when I remembered it look very familiar… and it was! We used it back for episode 203 and talking about LOLs. See below for all the links and details of what we talked about.
208: Turning Your Attention To The Sharing Economy
The sharing economy is dead. The biggest reason has to do with trust. With the potential for fake reviews and broken products/services, it’s easier to simply rent/subscribe to a bigger company.
See below for all the notes and links on the topics we covered.
204: The Amazon of Tech Podcast Episodes
In the book Made To Stick, it talks about to get people to quickly understand and idea. One really easy way is to take something they already know and then tell them how it’s different. Thus the formula “It’s the [existing company] of [new market]” was born.
159: Watching Crystals Grow
James gets a Nest Thermostat and Protect, Matthew gets an LG G3 and Moto 360, Mr. Rogers is the man, HP is officially not better together, GT Advanced files for bankruptcy, the NFL bans Beats from the cameras, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella doesn’t think women need a raise, Samsung is declining in revenue, Squarespace makes a pretty cool update, Airbnb is now legal in San Francisco, Lego gets called out by Greenpeace for their partnership of Shell, Jonny Ives talks about the Apple Watch, and Tesla releases a new car.
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- NFL Bans Beats Headphones On Camera
- May the strong survive: Why spin-offs are the new go-to play for struggling Wall St. boards
- GT Advanced Files For Chapter 11
- Investors Are Stunned
- CEO Sold $160,000 Worth Of Stock The Day Before The iPhone 6 Event
- Apple Withheld Final $125 million Payment For Failure To Meet Objectives
- Apple Says They Were Surprised Too
- GT Won’t Give Details Because Of A Confidentiality Agreement With Apple
- GT Advanced Is Blaming Apple Specifically For Being Too Burdensome To Continue Operations
- Where does Apple Go From Here
- Samsung Sees Largest Fall In Quarterly Profits Since 2009
- This Is The New Squarespace
- San Francisco Legalizes, Regulates Airbnb
- The End Of The “.com” Tyranny
- Microsoft CEO Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot On Gender Pay Gap
- Crude spoof worked: Lego ends 50-year deal with Shell after Greenpeace video
- Musk Unveils His New Model D Teslas
- Jonny Ives Just Quoted Matthew
- Beats And Bose Settle Noise Cancellation Patent Dispute
- …Hours After Rumors Leak Of Apple Will Be Removing Bose From Apple Stores. Coincidence?
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Microsoft’s Tablet Surfaced This Week
Episode 39! The big news was Microsoft’s new Surface Tablet. We talk about the device and how it’s a transitional product for a company in transition. There are still a ton of questions about it, but they’ll all have to wait since nobody actually gotten to try one.
We also talk about Facebook’s purchase of Face.com, LG getting out of the tablet game, Airbnb’s sleepover milestones, the new version of Flipboard, Matthew’s hands-on with the new Retina display MacBook Pro, Windows Phone 8, Waze’s new Real-Time Fuel Prices, the dropping price of SSDs, PC maker’s hopes of future notebook purchases, Larry’s Hawaiian Island, Bing’s Image Search non-improvements, RIM’s potential fracturing, Apple’s new cloning security, Google Maps discounts, and Larry Page’s absence.
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- Microsoft Borrows Apple Tactics for Event and the video comparing events
- Microsoft Surface: Everything You Need to Know
- Beneath Microsoft’s Surface Is a Company in Transition
- Facebook purchases Face.com and its facial recognition software
- LG is going to quiet making tablets
- People aren’t pleased with Surface
- Airbnb has booked 10M guest nights, with 5.6M of them booked outside of the United States
- Facebook And GE’s Newest App, HealthyShare, Points To How Open Graph Can Go Beyond The Web
- Google partners with Flipboard, adding Google+ streams to the app
- No 3g for Surface
- Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place
- Microsoft outsources manufacturing to Pegatron, NOT a PC partner
- Microsoft’s Partners were kept in the dark about Surface, and they are not pleased
- Acer CEO: Microsoft will stop making tablets. Soon.
- No one touched Surface’s keyboard… not even the demonstrator
- Microsoft announces their next Windows OS
- Windows Phone 8 Is A Great Big, Crazy, Beautiful Mess
- Navigation App Waze Adds Real-Time Fuel Prices
- The coolest part about high tech: Average price per gigabyte of SSD has halved in 12 months
- PC makers hopes: Tablets simply delaying notebook purchases during a recession
- Larry Ellison Bought most of the property on a Hawaiian Island
- Bing Image Search Updates Roll Out Today
- RIM looking at the option of splitting the company into two
- The new identity security initiative: Delusion is the solution to pollution
- Google slashes the cost of Google Maps
- Wall Street Frets over Larry Page’s Absence
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