Netflix has had a spectacular growth in the last few years. Partly because the great content, and partly because Netflix policy on how users can enjoy the service has been pretty lax. You can share your monthly subscription with others (not necessarily your relatives) and until last thursday, you could use proxies to access Netflix …
Category: Media
The audio streaming services should be pretty worried about the launch of YouTube Music, a streaming service that goes beyond what Google Play Music offers, but also what Spotify, Rdio, Pandora, or Apple Music -to name a few- offer right now. And that’s because for a similar price you are not getting just the audio, …
Josh Constine on TechCrunch: YouTube made its top video creators an offer they literally couldn’t refuse, or they’d have their content disappear. Today YouTube confirmed that any “partner” creator who earns a cut of ad revenue but doesn’t agree to sign its revenue share deal for its newYouTube Red $9.99 ad-free subscription will have their …
This is a good summary of some of the problems big media assets are fighting against. Google, Apple and Facebook are trying to control the news and our way to get informed. They are trying to control content, because content is the gateway to ads. Quoting Patel: Unfortunately, the ads pay for all that content, …
I felt dissapointed after watching Jobs (2013) and more recently Steve Jobs : The Man in the Machine (2015). Steve Jobs (2015) seems really promising. The just released second trailer is a little more revealing that I’d want to, but whatever. Jobs’ daughter, Lisa, seems to have a prominent role, which as far as I know …
Tech readers and users know about a new piece of technology long before most of the population does. They understand what that technology can do for everyone before people actually know that technology exists. So when that software or hardware product finally gets away from the geeky cave, their features and highlights must be clearly …