Stores of value: regulators lean on app vendors
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Apple and Alphabet operate what is in effect a smartphone-app duopoly. Governments want to curb their power, but it is not clear whether more competition would change things. We ask why India’s election is so eye-wateringly expensive; the country’s size is not the only answer (08:59). And new approaches in the old fight against swarms of locusts (14:07).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Ora Ogunbee and this is my last week |
| 0:15.0 | is my last week hosting the intelligence. |
| 0:17.0 | And not just a little saddened by that news, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:20.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:25.0 | India's election is well underway. |
| 0:31.0 | Yes, still, it takes a long time for almost a billion people to vote. |
| 0:36.8 | It's also proving very expensive. |
| 0:41.3 | And there are some pretty old books out there that show how long the desert locust has been an agricultural past. |
| 0:48.0 | We look at how swarms are changing alongside the climate and how new and old technology can keep them from |
| 0:55.0 | plaguing farmers. First up though, though. |
| 1:07.0 | If you're going to If your day is |
| 1:17.2 | day is anything like mine from the moment you wake up |
| 1:26.0 | Your day is relentlessly punctuated by smartphone apps. Checking the weather forecast, checking the 381 bus forecast, reading the news, |
| 1:31.0 | messaging colleagues, getting messages from... Reading the news. Messaging colleagues. |
| 1:34.0 | Getting messages from colleagues. |
| 1:36.0 | Snapping a picture of a particularly charming pup. |
| 1:40.0 | Sharing it with a dog-loving friend or wife. |
| 1:44.0 | Reading a saved article, getting directions to dinner, paying for dinner. |
| 1:48.0 | Hailing a cab streaming a movie. |
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