Apple
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Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Company by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, the company was incorporated by Jobs and Wozniak as Apple Computer, Inc. the following year. It was renamed Apple Inc. in 2007 as the company had expanded its focus from computers to consumer electronics. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue, with US$391.04 billion in the 2024 fiscal year. Wikipedia
Website: www.apple.com
Symbol: NASDAQ:AAPL
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- Apr 2: Exclusive Apple Podcasts remains the #1 app in the US for podcast downloads for the biggest shows, according to new data from Podtrac. In a presentation this morning (keynote stage 9am) at Evolutions in Chicago, our Editor will reveal data showing that - even with YouTube views - Apple is still the largest podcast app out there for the 250 biggest shows.
- Apr 1:
iOS 18.4 is now available as an update for iPhone and iPad. Among many other improvements, the update offers two new home-screen widgets for Apple Podcasts: a “followed show” widget to directly place
the Podnews Dailyyour favourite show’s latest episodes on your home screen; and a library widget to get to your most used sections, like latest episodes or Stations. - Mar 26:
Podcast hosting company RSS
.com has added automatic Apple Podcasts submission. The feature from Apple, which was launched in Feb, was driven in part by comments in the Podnews Report Card, and makes it easier for new users to get into Apple Podcasts without registering as a user. (The new Report Card is published next week, in a keynote at Evolutions). - Mar 24: What counts as a “play” in the analytics in Apple Podcasts Connect? According to podcast growth agency Bumper, it’s every time you hit the play button in Apple Podcasts. Pause a show to answer a call, then hit play again? That’s two plays. Take your AirPods out to ask for a coffee on your way to work, before putting them back in again? That’s two plays. No wonder a recent episode of our podcast shows 32 listeners but 232 plays! The detail appears in a piece from Bumper showing how to combine audio and video podcast data from different sources, which also reminds us that YouTube doesn’t actually tell us how it calculates a ‘play’ at all.
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