Fri. 12/11 - Disney+ Is About to Get a Bit More Expensive

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🗓️ 11 December 2020

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Disney+ is about to get a bit more expensive, but you’re also gonna get a lot more stuff to watch. Are we in a tech IPO bubble? X64 emulation comes to Windows. Apple whispers that it will likely be dropping Qualcomm like it dropped Intel. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Amazon.com/ridehome Tinycapital.com Links: Disney Plus is increasing its price to $8 a month starting in March 2021 (The Verge) ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Pinocchio’ and More as Disney Leans Sharply Into Streaming (NYTimes) Airbnb skyrockets 112% in public market debut, giving it a market cap of $86.5 billion (CNBC) x64 emulation has come to Windows on ARM (The Verge) Apple Starts Work on Its Own Cellular Modem, Chip Chief Says (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Social Strikes Back (A16Z) “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C (Ars Technica) 7 Rejections (Brian Chesky) Facebook Sees WhatsApp As Its Future, Antitrust Suit or Not (Bloomberg Businessweek) Who’s Behind the Fight Between Warner Bros. and Hollywood? It’s AT&T (NYTimes) Inside the Human Science of Spotify’s New Music Friday Playlist (Variety) How eBird Changed Birding Forever (Outside) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, December 11th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Disney Plus is about to get a bit more expensive, but you're also going to get a lot more stuff to watch.
0:14.8	Are we in a tech IPO bubble at this point?
0:18.3	X64 emulation comes to Windows, Apple whispers that it will likely be dropping Qualcomm like it dropped Intel, and of course, the weekend long read suggestions.
0:27.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech.
0:32.0	How many times have I said this this year? I can't believe that covering Disney is now part of the scope of covering tech news, but here we are.
0:42.0	Disney yesterday held a multi-hour event for investors
0:46.0	where they outlined their streaming strategy going forward.
0:49.6	They unveiled, for example, Star,
0:52.0	the answer to Hulu for international Disney Plus customers
0:56.0	rolling out in some EU countries, Canada, and New Zealand on February 28.
1:00.7	They also
1:03.0	get Disney Plus, E-S-P-N-plus, and Ad Free Hulu
1:08.0	for only $18.99 a month.
1:11.0	But the bigger news was Disney is also raising the cost of standalone Disney Plus by a dollar.
1:16.8	It will now be $7.99 a month in the US starting in March.
1:21.5	The better, the company says, to invest in new content offerings, quoting
1:25.6	Julia Alexander and The Verge.
1:27.8	This is the first time that Disney Plus has received a price hike.
1:32.0	It arrives just a couple months after Netflix announced
1:34.3	it was increasing prices for subscribers in the United States, including raising
1:37.9	its most popular plan from $13 to $14 a month. Although it seems early for a Disney Plus hike, the announcement
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