Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home from Monday, January 7th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today is Apple willing to sacrifice Apple TV for the greater subscription good?

Is Google Assistant coming to feature phones?

What is the use case for a TV you can roll up into a box?

And plenty more questions like that because it's time to let the

CES headlines rain over you. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Well it's CES time, so buckle in because the best we can do this week is just ride the lightning

and try to keep abreast of the most interesting headlines and keep our heads above the flood as it were.

The first headline though would be a major headline any other day of the week or week of the

year.

Samsung and Apple have agreed to play nice, at least when it comes to

televisions. Now, Apple's front relationship with Samsung is not quite as bitter as Apple's

war with Qualcomm in the sense that Apple and

Samsung have always had some sort of relationship as Samsung has always been a

major Apple supplier though there was some major litigation back in the day that was resolved last year.

So given that, this is super interesting.

Samsung's 2018 and 2019 TV models will be able to access iTunes content

directly via a dedicated iTunes app on the TVs and the TVs will support Apple's Airplay 2 wireless streaming standard.

So this essentially means if you get the latest Samsung TV, you don't need an actual Apple

TV hockey puck in order to stream your Apple content

Quoting the verge the iTunes movies and TV shows app which will be available in 100 countries on both

Samsung's 2019 TVs as well as its 2018 models after a firmware update

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