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Snell, Myke, Technology, Media, Apple, Streaming, Amazon, Hurley, Jason, Tech

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

We answer a lot of your #askupgrade questions, then break down how Apple's changing its laptop line and retail stores. Also, Warner Media makes a big bet on the HBO brand name, and Apple News+ is unsurprisingly not succeeding. Then we start the show with #snelltalk! This week with Jason and Myke.

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0:00.0

Goodbye. I hope you've enjoyed downgrade this episode of upgrade in reverse. You can find me online as I'm like

0:14.4

Jason is at Jason now J-S-N-E-O and you can find Jason's work at six colors

0:19.4

dot com I want to thank our sponsors linode butcher and Hello. Our show notes are at Relay.

0:24.6

F.F.m. slash upgrade slash 254. So let's finish up every episode of

0:29.0

upgrade as we always do, Jason, with some hashtag ask upgrade questions.

0:33.0

Goodbye Jason Snell.

0:35.0

Goodbye.

0:36.0

Goodbye Jason Snell.

0:37.0

Our first question in downgrade today in the hashtag ask upgrade segment comes from James. This is also a follow-up which is

0:45.6

interesting to have at the end of the show but here we are anyway. If your

0:49.1

favorite podcast moved to a service like Loominary, would you subscribe?

0:55.0

I think the challenge is going to be what's the exchange of money for content, and that's how I always feel about this.

1:05.4

So if I had, if the money I would spend is worth it, then I would do it.

1:11.9

But that's what it would require is it

1:13.5

would be something that I felt like and my hesitation here is that

1:16.8

Loominary really wants to be like Netflix so they want to charge you a larger

1:20.8

amount of money to give you a range of premium exclusive audio shows and so my

1:27.9

gut feeling is if a podcast went that way but it was priced that it only made sense if you want lots of them.

1:36.8

I wouldn't do it.

1:37.8

I would be frustrated by that, but it's one of those things if that makes any sense like I pay

1:44.7

the Flophouse five dollars a month on Max Fun because I like that show and I want to

1:48.7

give them money but if they turned around and said well the Flophouse is now ten

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