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🗓️ 23 January 2019

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YouTube TV goes nationwide, Jony Ive’s dream phone design, Patreon milestones and is Spotify killing music’s middle class? Sponsors: Joybird.com/RIDE ... Promocode RIDE Metalab.co Links: YouTube TV finally goes nationwide almost two years after launch (The Verge) Hulu drops to just $5.99 per month after Netflix’s price hikes (The Verge) Waymo says it will build self-driving cars in Michigan (Reuters) Xiaomi's flexible phone concept folds on both sides (Engadget) Meizu Zero debuts with no physical buttons, speaker or charging port (GSMarena) Millions and Billions | Celebrating Patrons, Creators, and Major Milestones (Patreon Blog) Digitimes: AirPods 2 launching in first half of this year, redesigned to support ‘health monitoring’ features (9to5Mac) Spotify Will Soon Let You Block Artists (Thurrot.com) The economics of streaming is making songs shorter (QZ) Is Spotify’s Model Wiping Out Music’s Middle Class? (The Ringer) 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 Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.6	Today, YouTube TV goes nationwide. Johnny Ives Dream phone design, Patreon milestones, and is
0:18.0	Spotify Killing Music's middle class. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:23.0	Almost two years after launching, YouTube TV has now gone nationwide, mostly.
0:35.7	Google today launched YouTube TV in 95 additional U.S. markets and claims that with these,
0:42.4	98% of U.S. markets and claims that with these 98% of U.S. households can now get YouTube TV.
0:47.5	One tiny caveat, quoting Chris Welch in The Verge, but there's one downside to this availability expansion. Not all markets will be able to
0:54.6	stream all four of the major broadcasters, ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC. YouTube says all YouTube TV
1:01.3	markets will have live streaming access to at least three out of the four.
1:05.9	I counted 19 markets out of 195 where one of the four broadcasters is unavailable, so
1:11.0	customers in most regions, over 90% of YouTube TV markets, will still be getting
1:17.0	all of them, end quote.
1:19.3	But YouTube doesn't care about your quibbles? Quoting their blog post,
1:23.2	just in time for the big game,
1:24.9	you can now bring together some tasty game day
1:27.3	snacks with the full experience of YouTube TV.
1:30.5	That's exciting news for living rooms,
1:32.4	cord cutters, and cord nevers in neighborhoods far and
1:34.8	wide from Bozeman to Gainesville, Anchorage to Yuma, and Erie to Topeka, end quote.
1:40.3	Reminder that YouTube TV lets you watch live TV without a cable subscription,
1:45.0	60 different networks, a cloud DVR with zero storage limits,
1:51.0	and, as you can imagine, the ability to watch TV on any screen you
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