Good Apples and Bad Apples - DTNSB 5028

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Plus the good and the bad of Audible using generated voices.

Starring Tom Merritt, Jenn Cutter, and Andy Beach.

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0:00.0	Oh, my friends, this is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, May 28, 2025.
0:08.2	We tell you what you need to know.
0:09.2	Follow up on context.
0:10.4	Help each other.
0:11.5	Understand.
0:13.0	Today, Andy Beach talks to us about Audible expanding its generated voices for audiobooks,
0:18.6	Apple buys a game studio, but also gets fined in Europe.
0:22.1	Hey, good news, bad news. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm Jen Cutter.
0:24.9	Let's start with what you need to know with the big story.
0:29.7	There is a lot of Apple news. Good and bad today. So let's do a quick state of the apple.
0:36.0	I wanted to take this metaphor too far and have stems and cores and all of that, but I didn't do that.
0:41.7	We've just got like four items. First, Apple bought its first game studio, RAC7. Now, when I say studio, I mean, it's a two-person outfit.
0:52.1	They make the very popular sneaky Sasquatch, an Apple arcade game.
0:56.8	They've made a bunch of other popular games in the past.
0:59.0	Sneaky Sasquatch, probably their most popular.
1:01.1	Apple says it's a unique situation.
1:03.3	They're trying to deflect the idea that they're going to just start buying up game studios right and left.
1:07.6	However, Bloomberg sources say Apple is going to release a dedicated app for
1:12.7	video games across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV later this year that would replace
1:18.5	Game Center. So it would fold in all those Game Center features into an app that also had a
1:24.1	game launcher and some editorial content. And apparently on the Mac, it would be able to include games from outside the app store.
1:31.9	So before we get to the rest of the Apple news, Jen, what do you think about Apple kind of solidifying or consolidating?
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