Fri. 04/28 – Microsoft Gets Out Of The Mice Business

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🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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More signs that vital communications infrastructure is abandoning Twitter. Reddit is testing Discord-like chat channels. Big layoffs at Clubhouse. Microsoft exits the peripherals business after 40 years. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Bloomberg.com/careers Miro.com/podcast Links: New York City Subway Ends Twitter Service Alerts After Musk Raises Price (Bloomberg) Reddit is testing Discord-like channels for community chat (TechCrunch) Once-Hot Chat Startup Clubhouse Is Cutting Half of Staff (Bloomberg) Pinterest announces multiyear ads partnership with Amazon alongside earnings beat (TechCrunch) Microsoft’s mice, keyboards, and webcams are being discontinued in favor of Surface accessories (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Apple’s Siri Chief Struggles With Turf Wars as New AI Era Begins (The Information) ASML, Europe’s Most Valuable Tech Firm, Is at the Heart of the US-China Chip War (Bloomberg) The Unexpected Reason Apple Is Dominating the U.S. Smartphone Market (WSJ) 35 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, April 28th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.7	More signs that vital communications infrastructure is abandoning Twitter. Reddit is testing discord-like chat channels, big layoffs at Clubhouse,
0:17.0	Microsoft exits the Peripherals Business after 40 years,
0:20.0	and of course, the weekend long-rate suggestions. Here's what you missed today in the world of
0:24.4	tech.
0:26.7	A bit of local news but this points to an issue we've been talking about that could be a larger problem going forward.
0:38.0	It's interesting the way that Twitter is sort of baked in as a somewhat important piece of societal infrastructure.
0:45.0	The MTA here in New York City is officially ending its Twitter service alerts
0:50.0	saying the platform is no longer reliable and that Twitter demanded
0:53.7	$50,000 per month for API access. So no more getting alerts that the
0:59.9	F train is down I guess, going in Bloomberg.
1:04.0	I don't see it would be the best use of resources,
1:06.1	especially when we have these other features and functions
1:08.4	that are internal and homegrown,
1:10.3	and that are reliable that we want our customers to use.
1:13.2	Shanifa Riera,
1:14.7	MTA's acting chief customer officer and senior advisor said in a telephone interview.
1:19.3	We want to communicate with our customers through all platforms, but we need a platform that is
1:23.1	reliant and consistent and up-to-date end quote.
1:25.9	MTA's Twitter accounts that offered real-time service updates to writers including
1:30.7	at NYU subway, NYC bus at LIRR and at Metro North will no longer be used to push out communication like service alerts to writers according to the transit system. Transit system employees will
1:43.9	still monitor those handles and respond to social media messages. There's no
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