Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, April 29th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

There's no reason the hotel chains can't do what Airbnb does, why super zoom lenses might be the real improvement in smartphones right now.

We're almost done with tech earnings season, and why was Game of Thrones so dark last night?

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.

When Tech earning season blows in it packs a sharp punch and then it's out quickly usually we've

only got two biggies left alphabet tonight about the time this episode drops and

then Apple tomorrow afternoon.

But for now, brief mention for Spotify,

which reported Q1 revenue of 1.5 billion euro,

up 33% year on year, and a reduced net loss of 142 million euro down from a loss of

169 million euro from the same period a year ago. But that wasn't the big news. The big news was that

Spotify became the first streaming music service to hit 100 million paying

subscribers, quoting from The Verge. More than 100 million users worldwide now pay for Spotify premium. the year on year. Including free subscribers Spotify now has a total of

217 million monthly active users worldwide. That includes 2 million

Indian users who joined after the company launched its service there in February.

Globally, the numbers put Spotify well ahead of Apple Music, its closest competitor,

who reportedly had 50 million paid users worldwide at the beginning of April.

However, in the US, Apple's music streaming services winning,

according to the Wall Street Journal,

with 28 million subscribers compared to Spotify's 26 million end quote.

And quick side note given the game of phones slash

podcasting wars narrative from last week.

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