Mon. 07/01 - Was Jony Ive Burned Out AT Apple or BY Apple?

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🗓️ 1 July 2019

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Was Jony Ive burned out at Apple or was he burned out BY Apple? Again, Roku as the quiet mega-player in the streaming wars, how TikTok is spending its way to ubiquity (on the backs of those it wants to supplant) and how tech is revolutionizing Archeology. Sponsors: FiresideConf.com/ride Pantheon.io/ride Links: Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple, but His Departure Started Long Ago (WSJ) Roku Will Soon Have 70% More OTT Devices in Global Streaming Market Than Next Closest Competitor (Multichannel News) Streaming Overload? Nielsen Report Finds Average Viewer Takes 7 Minutes To Pick What To Watch; Just One-Third Bother To Check Menu (Deadline) TikTok’s Videos Are Goofy. Its Strategy to Dominate Social Media Is Serious. (WSJ) RealWear AR Closes Series B, Total Funding Over $100M (Forbes) Exclusive: Intel launches blockbuster auction for its mobile portfolio (iam-media.com) New electric cars sold in Europe must be fitted with noise-making device (TechSpot) How Cutting-Edge Tech Is Empowering Ancient Archaeology (OneZero) Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages (MIT Technology Review) 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, July 1st, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	Was Johnny I've burned out at Apple or was he burned out by Apple? Again, Roku as the quiet
0:16.8	mega player in the streaming wars. How Tik-Tok is spending its way to ubiquity, possibly
0:21.8	on the backs of those it wants to supplant, and how Tech is revolutionizing
0:26.4	archaeology. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:32.2	The article everyone was talking about today was the background to Johnny Ives
0:37.2	departure from Apple from the Wall Street Journal. Reading between the lines
0:41.7	there are suggestions of a lot of the things that
0:45.1	Apple Kremlinologists have been whispering about recently.
0:48.3	Was I've dispirited by Tim Cook's lack of interest in the product development process.
0:54.4	Was he frustrated that Apple was becoming a more operations focus company at the expense of design?
1:01.5	Interestingly, there are hints at other things we've spoken about as well, was I've disappointed that the
1:06.1	Apple Watch basically became a glorified health tracker as opposed to the luxury fashion
1:12.4	item he might have imagined. The article suggests that in the
1:15.7	first year of the Apple Watch, the Apple Watch only sold a quarter of the units Apple had been
1:21.1	projecting, and thousands of the units Apple had been projecting and thousands of the gold version of the watch
1:25.8	apparently went unsold. Lots of people on Twitter demanded to know what happened to all of those
1:31.6	gold watches but the most buzz about details were the picture
1:35.9	painted by the piece of Ive being basically a wall from day-to-day processes at Apple possibly for quite a while.
1:45.0	This in fact is the very opening of the piece.
1:47.0	As the deadline loomed for the 10th anniversary iPhone,
1:51.0	Apple's top software designers gathered in the penthouse of an exclusive
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