Week 91 – NR – Apple Tidbits, Google Home Multi - User, Netflix Earnings, S8 Reviews

Beyond Devices Podcast

Earlier this week, we did our Question of the Week episode, which covered the Facebook F8 announcements, so this News Roundup episode covers some of the other big news for the week: • Several Apple news tidbits, including a set of environmental announcements, hires of satellite experts from Google, the purchase of a music documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, web embedding of Live Photos, and purported shots of the chassis for the next iPhone • Google Home announcing multi-user support, as well as two announcements relating two Amazon Echo and Alexa • Netflix Q1 2017 earnings • Samsung Galaxy S8 reviews, which came out this week, and news that Google Music will be the default music service on the devices. As always, you'll find links to these stories and other things we discussed below. News stories we covered (Tech Narratives links): Apple's environmental news: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/04/20/apple-makes-big-environmental-push-for-earth-day/ Apple hires Google satellite execs: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/04/21/apple-hires-google-satellite-execs-likely-for-mapping-or-broadband/ Apple acquires a music documentary: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/04/20/apple-acquires-first-movie-at-tribeca-film-festival/ Apple enables web embedding of Live Photos: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/04/20/apple-enables-web-embedding-of-live-photos-for-developers/ Google Home multi-user support: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/04/20/?-google-home-now-recognizes-multiple-users-by-voice/ Amazon opens Lex platform to all developers: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/04/19/amazon-scales-alexa-back-end-by-opening-lex-voice-and-text-service-to-all-developers/ Amazon bans most ads in Alexa Skills: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/04/21/amazon-bans-almost-all-ads-in-alexas-third-party-skills-apps/ Netflix reports Q1 2017 earnings: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/04/17/netflix-reports-q1-2017-gains-5m-subs-makes-first-profit-internationally/ Galaxy S8 reviews: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/04/18/samsung-galaxy-s8-reviews-say-hardware-is-great-software-not-so-much/