Fri. 11/09 - Amazon and Apple Cut a Deal

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🗓️ 9 November 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The great winter of tech worker discontent is definitely here, Disney’s streaming service has a name, Vine might be coming back, Github hits a major milestone and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Links: Amazon is finally selling new iPhones after a long and complicated 'turf war' with Apple (BusinessInsider) A note to our employees (Google) #GoogleWalkout update: Collective action works, and we need to keep working. True equity depends on it. (Google Walkout For Real Change) Amazon Execs Addressed Concerns About Amazon Rekognition And ICE At An All-Hands Meeting (BuzzFeed) Vine co-founder plans to launch successor Byte in Spring 2019 (TechCrunch) GitHub passes 100 million repositories (Venture Beat) The Betterment Weekend Longreads: Why Technology Favors Tyranny (The Atlantic) Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer (NYTimes) HQ Trivia was a blockbuster hit — but internal turmoil and a shrinking audience have pushed its company to the brink (ReCode) ‘It’s Giant and Has Like Five Million Buttons.’ The Office Desk Phone Won’t Die (WSJ) Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (The New Yorker) Here Comes ‘Smart Dust,’ the Tiny Computers That Pull Power from the Air (WSJ) ASTRONOMERS SEE MATERIAL ORBITING A BLACK HOLE *RIGHT* AT THE EDGE OF FOREVER (SyFy Wire) 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, November 9th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.8	Today, the great winter of tech workers' discontent is definitely here.
0:13.7	Disney's streaming service has a name.
0:16.5	Vine might be coming back.
0:18.6	GitHub hits a major milestone and of course the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:27.0	I'm not sure how many people were aware of this but while you can currently buy a lot of Apple products and a slew of Apple
0:37.0	product accessories on Amazon until now you couldn't buy the most recent iPhone on Amazon. Refurbished used iPhones sure but
0:46.8	not the iPhone 10 are. Well that's all changing because Amazon has signed a deal with
0:52.3	Apple to start selling Apple's latest and greatest
0:54.8	devices on Amazon's website.
0:58.4	iPhone 10 whatever's iPad Pros, Apple Watch Series 4s, Apple TV's, the latest Macs, The Whole Shabang.
1:06.6	The Whole Shabang, except notably Apple's Home Pod Smart Speaker.
1:11.7	Quote Amazon is constantly working to enhance the customer experience and one of the ways
1:15.4	we do this is by increasing selection of the products we know customers want.
1:20.0	We look forward to expanding our assortment of Apple and Beats Products globally, an Amazon
1:24.8	spokesperson told Business Insider.
1:27.7	When asked about what was up with the Home Pot emission, the spokesperson responded,
1:32.6	we make assortment decisions all the time
1:34.9	based on terms and a large number of other factors, end quote.
1:39.6	Yeah, I can think of one rather obvious factor in this case of course.
1:50.4	This actually broke yesterday but I'm actually glad I waited till today to get full context on it.
1:57.0	Google announced yesterday that it will make arbitration optional
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