Are Super Apps A Good Idea? - DTNS 4410
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Having problems finding a gift for that one person because you don’t know what to get them? KTLA’s Rich DeMuro is here with a list of tech gifts sure to please the recipient. Plus Microsoft announces a deal with Nintendo and Valve to make Call of Duty available for the Switch and Steam for ten years. And The Information’s reports Microsoft wants to develop a new “super app” that would combine shopping, messaging, web search, games and news feeds.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Rich DeMuro, Roger Chang, Joe.
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| 0:00.0 | A tech demo shows off the usual tech things. |
| 0:04.0 | Then I'm going to jump to a link. |
| 0:05.0 | Using the usual tech devices. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a plane device called our mouse. |
| 0:09.0 | Doing the usual tech productivity tasks. |
| 0:11.0 | Now we're connected audio. |
| 0:13.0 | You can see my work, you can point at it, |
| 0:15.0 | and I can see your face, and we can talk. |
| 0:17.0 | Except it's 1968, and it's going to set the computing agenda |
| 0:20.0 | for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored. |
| 0:24.0 | The mother of all demos, on no a little more. |
| 0:27.0 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Daily tech news show is made possible by its listeners. |
| 0:33.0 | Thanks to all of you, including Eric Home, |
| 0:35.0 | Carmine Bailey, and Vince Power. |
| 0:37.0 | Coming up on DTNS, Rich Demuro is here with some excellent |
| 0:40.0 | last minute tech gift ideas. |
| 0:42.0 | Scott Johnson talks about Microsoft's 10-year deal |
| 0:44.0 | to bring Call of Duty to the Nintendo Switch. |
| 0:46.0 | And what would it take to get you to use a super app? |
| 0:50.0 | Americans? Why? Why can't you be more like China? |
| 0:54.0 | Says business. |
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