Click Apple May Have Just Cracked A Whole New Market

Useful links discord server (discuss with other listeners) Support WE podcasts by subscribing and listening ad-free Twitter community The hidden risk of the merger of Microsoft and Activision Microsoft has launched a new wave of negotiations and agreements to appease regulators investigating plans to take over game publisher Activision The company has completed negotiations with representatives of the European Commission and signed two important agreements, which won over large competitors to its side.
Microsoft has formally promised to give Nintendo access to the Call of Duty series of games for the next ten years At the same time, he agreed with the Nivida company to make the games it releases on the PC platform available in its GeForce NOW cloud service.
The agreement aims to alleviate the concern that that Microsoft, through the combination of the Game Pass subscription and its cloud service, will include such a large part of the game audience in the future that it will be a defacto monopson for small game creators - i e.
the only buyer of game content on the market Microsoft could hypothetically control access to players and thus dictate terms for developers.
Gameindustry biz did a great job of analyzing it: The real purpose of Game Pass is not to create a great catalog of games to attract and lock in customers.
This is just a means to the real goal, which is to create a gaming audience that is (without Microsoft) completely unavailable to other publishers The real reason why it is necessary to maintain competition in this field is not to protect consumers from monopoly, but to protect publishers and developers from monopsony, where there would be a fundamental pressure on margins, if Game Pass (or another subscription service) becomes too dominant.
Apple's new market Apparently, after years of development, Apple's experimental unit managed to find a reliable way for smart watches to non-invasively measure blood sugar levels If the technology can be translated into a consumer product (which could take years) and patented, it will mean the opening of a whole new market for Apple - hundreds of millions of people around the world suffer from some form of diabetes.
Continuous measurement of blood sugar is crucial for diabetics, and if the watch could eliminate the need to use an unpleasant measurement through the sampling of a small amount of blood, the Apple Watch would in principle become a very desirable medical device Combining measurements with other health indicators that watches can already read today could be extremely useful for medical research.
Zuckerberg repeats after Musk and it will not turn out well After the spread of the Cambridge Analytica scandal about the leakage of data of millions of users of the social network Facebook in 2018, voices were also heard that one of the possible solutions would be if users could pay for not displaying ads, or other functions In various interviews, when it came to this topic, Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly claimed that Facebook is for everyone, and for this to be possible, it must be free, and he does not plan to charge for services.
However, in 2022, the richest man in the world bought Twitter and started doing various experiments with it One of them was paid verification (basically a subscription with small benefits including a blue pipe next to the name), which Elon Musk launched on Twitter very quickly, but it turned out to cause problems.
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confirmation of identity, however, it began to be abused by various users who impersonated someone else or a brand or company and shared content that the real company would not publish Musk had to download the verification, work on it and in a few months he introduced it again, but without much success and it is still only available in some countries.
A week ago, mark zuckerberg introduced a similar model, called meta verified A monthly subscription will cost $11.
99 when purchased through the web or $14 99 when purchased directly in the app (Facebook added a fee for Apple and Google, as does YouTube with a Premium subscription, for example).
They launched the service for testing in Australia and New Zealand In addition to the blue icon confirming the identity, the user also gets greater protection against impersonation, will have access to a helpdesk with operators and, in particular, greater visibility of posts on the platform and a higher reach of their comments, in search or when recommended by Facebook.
The problem with this setup, like on Twitter, will be the creation of two categories of customers - those paying with benefits and those who will have a smaller impact of their posts Meta is not the only company to introduce a subscription and it is likely that many people will pay for it, especially companies, influencers and people who will benefit from it in their business.
However, again, the user experience is not thought of, which will probably worsen again, because the best content will not win, but the content whose creator is willing to pay extra And the second signal that Meta Verified subscription benefits send to users is the fact that that real customer support and pest protection is only for paying users.
Managers Status of streaming services During the week, Warner Bros.
reported the results Discovery, and with that we got the latest results of a major streaming service with the state of subscribers at the end of 2022.
Netflix still dominates with 230 75 million subscribers, followed by Amazon Prime and Disney+.
Paramount+, which currently has 55 9 million subscribers and whose content is available on Slovenks in the SkyShowtime service, recorded the most subscribers and the fastest growth last year.
(LinkedIn) Netflix cuts prices in more than thirty countries The reduction will also affect some European countries.
The news comes just weeks after the streaming giant cracked down on the sharing of account passwords between households However, according to the official price list of Netflix, the prices in Slovakia have not changed yet.
In the Balkan countries, however, the price of the basic plan has dropped from 7 99 euros to 4.
99 euros, the standard and premium plans are also two euros cheaper The first costs 7.
99 Euros And The Second Costs 9 99 Euros
(SME Tech) Samsung Galaxy S23 Plus test: a good answer to Apple's best iPhones Samsung also succeeds in integrating the entire ecosystem of its products, and from the point of view of the modern household, it offers significantly more than Apple.
The only weak point is the average fast charging and the high price, which we kind of expected (SME Tech) We tested the second generation of virtual reality from Sony.
From the point of view of image quality and sharpness, PlayStation VR2 is a significant step forward, but the image is still worse than on a good 4K monitor or large TV well that what it loses in sharpness and details, it makes up for with an amazing spatial effect.
Sailing through the jungle or rowing on rough seas during a storm is a truly intense experience Watching your newly polished car in Gran Turismo 7 up close is just as amazing as shooting a bow in Horizon: Call of the Mountain.
(SME Tech).
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