TNW 322: The Rising Costs of Streaming Services - Amazon & Roomba, Vision Pro, Data Centers
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Abrar Al-Heeti joins Mikah Sargent as this week's guest co-host! Abrar shares how Amazon Prime Video now has ads unless you pay more for the ad-free viewing experience, mirroring Disney+ and Netflix's decision to interject ads into its lowest-tier service. Amazon backs out of its acquisition of Roomba following opposition from the EU. Scott Stein of CNET shares his review of the Apple Vision Pro headset. And Reed Albergotti talks about data centers that are smack dab in the middle of nowhere!
- Abrar Al-Heeti shares her story of the week of how Amazon Prime Video now has ads in the basic tier unless you opt to pay 2.99 a month more, following similar moves from Disney+ and Netflix.
- Mikah talks about Amazon backing out of its Roomba acquisition following EU opposition and its plan to block the acquisition.
- Scott Stein of CNET joins the show to talk about his review of the Apple Vision Pro and his thoughts on the device from when it was initially announced to now after reviewing it.
- Finally, Reed Albergotti from Semafor stops by to talk about the mobile data centers, often in remote locations.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti
Guests: Scott Stein and Reed Albergotti
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Abraar Al-Hiti of C-Net is here as my guest co-host. |
| 0:07.0 | Abraar brings a great story to the table. |
| 0:09.0 | It's all about streaming services and how they keep raising the prices. |
| 0:14.0 | Then my story of the week is about how Amazon losing out on that Rumba acquisition |
| 0:20.0 | is actually bad news for Rumba. |
| 0:22.0 | What does the future of robotic vacuuming look like? |
| 0:25.8 | And what role did Roomba slash Irobot play in the start of the robotic vacuum craze. |
| 0:33.6 | Afterwards, we have an interview with Scott Stein of CNET, |
| 0:37.0 | who joins us wearing the Apple Vision Pro |
| 0:40.1 | to talk about the Apple Vision Pro, |
| 0:42.2 | and we round things out with a conversation with Reed |
| 0:44.1 | Albert Gotti of Semaphore who talks about data centers at the edge and I mean |
| 0:50.1 | truly at the edge in the middle of nowhere. Fascinating conversations, all of that is |
| 0:54.5 | coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:59.3 | Podcasts you love. |
| 1:00.3 | From people you trust. |
| 1:02.3 | This is Twit. |
| 1:05.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 322, recorded Thursday, February 1st, 2024, the rising costs of streaming services. |
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