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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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- Mar 2: Both Buzzsprout and Transistor reported an increase in downloads from Apple Podcasts in January - for Buzzsprout, Apple Podcasts is on a two-year high. Both company’s Spotify figures will be negatively affected when a creator produces video - when Spotify only uses the audio track from the video.
- Feb 27: Threads is continuing to roll out its podcast integration. You may now have access to a place in your profile to add your podcast: it supports links to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. The result looks like this.
- Feb 26: What is a podcast? Alitu discuss whether a cat is a podcast, but also talk about the differences between a podcast on Apple Podcasts, let’s say, and on a video platform. It also highlights “how to tell whether something is a podcast”. It’s a good, dispassionate, and sensible read.
- Feb 25: Good news: while Apple’s general specification for HLS streaming includes an option to make the ads unskippable, we’ve heard from multiple sources that Apple Podcasts will not be supporting that feature. We’ve updated our technical detail article with that information , and made a few other edits to keep it up to date.
- Feb 24: In the School of Podcasting this week, Dave Jackson talks about whether podcasting needs video. There's lots of data, and lots of research; he also suggests that the new HLS Apple Podcasts video is "meh".
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