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Episode 69 -  Apple Unbundles iTunes, Cuba Update, and Content Distribution in the 21st century

Episode 69 - Apple Unbundles iTunes, Cuba Update, and Content Distribution in the 21st century

Apple announces that they are unbundling iTunes into several apps at WWDC. Some feared this means the end of iTunes, but we discuss how it's actually a design upgrade.

Foursquare and Placed brought together in a big spinoff-merger deal. What does that mean for the future of location, ads, and attribution?

Lots of emphasis on privacy at WWDC. Cubans to get private wifi - are they slowing joining the 21st century?

Links

WSJ: Foursquare to Buy Placed from Snap
TechCrunch: Foursquare Buys Placed from Snap
Statement from Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck

Reuters: Cuba Legalizes Private Wifi
VPNs Available in Cuba
BeinCrypto.com with the Bitcoin Angle on the Story

Business Insider: Apple set to Ditch iTunes
LA Times: Apple to shut down iTunes, end Download Era also Newsweek
All new Apple TV App available in over 100 countries starting Today
1997: Steve Jobs Returns, Blames “Bad Engineering Management” on Apple’s Woes
2003: Steve Jobs introduced iTunes Music Store - “You’re working less than minimum wage [using P2P file sharing]!”

Related Episodes

Episode 66 with Dennis Crowley, our Previous Foursquare Update + CEO Transition
Episode 59 on Internet in Cuba
Episode 47 on 2018’s Big Tech Blues (a bit sarcastic)
Episode 36 on The Google Graveyard

Episode 70 - Centralizers vs Extremists and an Ode to the Podoverse

Episode 70 - Centralizers vs Extremists and an Ode to the Podoverse

Episode 68 - 6 University Courses that Influenced Me in Surprising Ways

Episode 68 - 6 University Courses that Influenced Me in Surprising Ways