87: A Game of Media Chicken

Apple's battery replacement saga and the parable of the infinite home appliance; Facebook and WordPress try to help journalism; Netflix raises prices; and with Vegas in the rear-view mirror, we ponder the biggest trends of CES with two people who actually braved the industry's largest trade show.

Apple's battery replacement saga and the parable of the infinite home appliance; Facebook and WordPress try to help journalism; Netflix raises prices; and with Vegas in the rear-view mirror, we ponder the biggest trends of CES with two people who actually braved the industry's largest trade show.

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Guest Starring:

Carolina Milanesi and Devindra Hardawar

Links and Show Notes: Daring Fireball: On Apple's $29 iPhone Battery Replacement Program and Its Role in Their Earnings Miss Apple Plans Three New iPhones This Year, Plays Catch-Up on Cameras - WSJ DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps for local searches on the web - The Verge DuckDuckGo Switches to Apple Maps for Location Searches – MacStories You Deserve Privacy Online. Here’s How You Could Actually Get It | TIME Pandora launches a personalized voice assistant on iOS and Android | TechCrunch A New Publishing Solution for News Organizations — The WordPress.com Blog Doing More to Support Local News - Facebook Samsung shows off a 75-inch 4K 'Wall' TV made with MicroLEDs How AirPlay 2 works on Vizio TVs - The Verge August CEO on the smart home of the future - The Verge Smart Home: It’s Connected Folks, not Magic! – Tech.pinions NVIDIA's RTX GPUs bring ray tracing to laptops - Engadget Netflix raising prices for 58M US subscribers as costs rise - Engadget NBCU Shakes Up Executive Ranks to Prepare for 2020 Streaming Launch – Variety Roku adds Infowars six months after other platforms ban channel - Digiday 'Miracle Puppy' | Austin Animal Center treats dog dropped by a hawk | kvue.com Carolina Milanesi (@caro_milanesi) | Twitter Devindra Hardawar (@Devindra) | Twitter