Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, February 26th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

The Game of Thrones when it comes to modern tech platforms is very much up in the air at the moment.

Saatch Nadella defends making the hollow lens for the U.S. Army.

Could the FTC undo previous tech mergers and that big Casey Newton piece about Facebook content

moderators. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. The current era of platform plays can be dizzying. Back in the day you did a software platform

like Windows and then you reap the rewards of everyone having to play in

your ecosystem or essentially you were left out in Siberia. And in more recent years

we saw various platforms like Facebook or you saw the battle between

Android and iOS where everybody was busily carving up their own little moat protected

platform fortresses.

But in the current era of everyone chasing subscriptions,

and then there's also the voice assistance

and a wide array of hardware devices for the home and the car

and what have you.

There are so many overlapping strategies around the edges now that it's not exactly clear

cut when trying to suss out what everyone is doing and why. Mac Rumors is reporting that within the Google Home

app for iOS devices there is currently a listing for Apple Music as a supported

service. This suggests that Apple Music integration is coming to Google Home Devices because Apple

Music is not currently a supported service.

Quote, in previous versions of Google software Apple Music was listed in a separate, quote, iOS devices. The updated listing suggests that Apple could soon make Apple music an option

available for Google Assistant powered playback on Google Home devices much like it did with the Amazon

Echo, end quote. Okay so Apple wants Apple Music to be available on every device

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