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Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley, best known for its consumer electronics, software and online 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 to its current name in 2007 as the company had expanded its focus from computers to consumer electronics. Apple is one of the Big Tech companies. Wikipedia
Website: www.apple.com
Symbol: NASDAQ:AAPL
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- Feb 19: More people are writing about Apple Podcasts video, and what it means for the industry. There's a lot to think about.
- Feb 18: The business model behind video on Apple Podcasts is explored by Adam Bowie. Meanwhile, we notice that if we watch an episode with a video, we appear to always get the video's audio track; we've asked for clarification on what plays, when.
- Feb 17: Apple Podcasts announced support for video podcasts in the next version of iOS.
- Feb 11: Apple has made a number of commitments to the UK government, including that Apple will "rank apps in their app stores in a fair, objective and transparent way". The Apple Podcasts directory uses the same systems as the App Store; and ranking of podcasts is quite similar (based on recent installations for apps, recent follows for podcasts). Are changes similarly afoot for the way podcasts are ranked?
- Feb 10: Back in December 2021, the National Association for the Deaf took SiriusXM to court for not providing transcripts in its app. The legal action is still going on - the latest is that we'll hear nothing until April this year. In the meantime, a standard for transcripts in podcast content has been produced; transcripts have been put live in Apple Podcasts, in Pocket Casts and in Spotify, and SiriusXM released a new app with transcription. It's our opinion that while the original court action was clearly instrumental in moving our industry forward, it would appear that the only people benefitting from this ongoing legal action are the lawyers.
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