Fri. 06/19 – It’s Gonna Be An Interesting WWDC…

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🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Apple officially says no to HEY and people are pissed, kind of just about the WAY they said it. A look at the internal divisions inside Apple over those rumored Apple Glasses. Twitch is growing as a platform for live music. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Links: Interview: Apple's Schiller says position on Hey App is unchanged and no rules changes are imminent (TechCrunch) Apple’s Secretive AR and VR Headset Plans Altered by Internal Differences (Bloomberg Businessweek) Exclusive: Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness (Reuters) Facebook Removes Trump Ads With Symbol Used By Nazis. Campaign Calls It An 'Emoji' (NPR) Wirecard chief quits as crisis deepens (Financial Times) Japanese insurer Sompo investing $500 million in data analytics firm Palantir (Reuters) Twitch’s Streaming Boom Is Jolting the Music Industry (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we really need (MIT Technology Review) Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump (Craigmod.com) The Grandmaster Who Got Twitch Hooked on Chess (Wired) healthOS (Divinations newsletter) The Segway’s Inventor Has a New Project: Manufacturing Human Organs (OneZero) We spent a fortune on police body cams. Why haven’t they fixed policing? (Fast Company) What to expect from Apple's WWDC 2020 (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, June 19th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.5	Apple officially says no to hey, and people are pissed kind of just about the way they said no
0:16.0	A look at the internal divisions inside Apple over those rumored Apple glasses
0:20.2	Twitch is growing as a platform for live music and of course the weekend Twitter,
0:23.0	which is growing as a platform for live music,
0:24.0	and of course, the weekend long read suggestions.
0:26.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:32.0	This just broke as I was going in to record and there aren't a lot of other details yet
0:38.4	but Apple is reportedly planning to close 11 retail stores across Florida, Arizona, North Carolina,
0:46.7	and South Carolina amid COVID-19 spikes in those states.
0:51.9	News Flash, in case you needed to hear it, coronavirus ain't over yet, everybody.
0:58.0	Apple officially rejected the appeal by the makers of the Hey App saying that Hey
1:09.2	in its current iteration is verboten in the app store and noting that email apps generally must work
1:16.1	without paid subscriptions. Apple suggests offering in app subscriptions to
1:22.0	reconfigure the app or to simply full-on reconfigure the app as an
1:27.2	IMAP or pop client.
1:29.4	Matthew Panzerino at Tech Crunch spoke to Apple's Phil Schiller about the issue, quote,
1:33.0	the current experience of the Hey app as a user downloading it from the App Store
1:38.0	is that it does nothing.
1:40.0	It is an app that requires you to subscribe to the hay service on the web before it becomes
1:44.0	useful.
1:45.0	You download the app and it doesn't work and that's not what we want on the store, says Schiller.
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