Mon. 03/25 - Apple Goes Hollywood!

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🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Apple event broken down piece by piece, YouTube wants out of the streaming video wars, Nintendo is working on two new Switch devices, is consolidation finally coming to the digital media space, and why you should know the name Transsion. Sponsors: Tiny.website DataDogHQ.com/ridehome Links: Apple launches $9.99 Apple News Plus with more than 300 magazines (The Verge) Apple introduced its own credit card, the Apple Card (TechCrunch) Apple announces Apple TV Plus video subscription service (The Verge) YouTube Bows Out of Hollywood Arms Race With Netflix and Amazon (Bloomberg) Nintendo to Launch Two New Switch Models (WSJ) Digital media companies Group Nine Media and Refinery29 are said to be in talks to merge (Business Insider) Shenzhen Transsion applies to raise capital on Shanghai’s technology board after taking Africa’s phone market by storm (South China Morning Post) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, March 25th 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.0	Today, the Apple event broken down piece by piece.
0:12.0	YouTube wants out of the streaming
0:13.8	video wars. Nintendo is working on two new switch devices. Is
0:17.5	consolidation finally coming to the digital media space? And why you should know the name Transian. Here's what you miss today in the world of
0:26.1	tech. So like we always have to do for these event days, I'm just going to give you the straight up facts as I know them at this moment and then we'll see tomorrow how people react and analyze all that has happened today.
0:42.0	But today at the Steve Jobs Theater it was all
0:44.8	services, no hardware for Apple. Let's take a look at this in chronological order.
0:49.8	First was the Apple News subscription product.
0:55.0	You'll get access to more than 300 magazines and news sources including the New Yorker, Esquire,
1:01.0	the Atlantic, National Geographic, Men's Health, Vogue, and the Wall Street Journal.
1:06.5	The service will be called Apple News Plus and quoting from The Verge, quote,
1:10.7	It would cost you more than $8,000 per year if you wanted to subscribe to all the publications
1:15.1	in Apple News Plus individually.
1:17.3	Apple says, but the News Plus price will be
1:25.0	allowed with each user having their own individual favorites and customizations.
1:30.0	The US and Canada are the first two countries to get Apple News Plus, which rolls out today via an update to
1:36.0	iOS and Mac devices.
1:38.3	The first month will be free.
1:40.0	Australia and the UK will follow in the fall of this year with the rest of Europe to come later.
1:44.8	Stressing its habitual emphasis on privacy, Apple promises it won't know what you read in Apple
1:50.0	News Plus and won't allow advertisers to track you.
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