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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
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Symbol: NASDAQ:AAPL
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- Feb 11: Apple has made a number of commitments to the UK government, including that Apple will "rank apps in their app stores in a fair, objective and transparent way". The Apple Podcasts directory uses the same systems as the App Store; and ranking of podcasts is quite similar (based on recent installations for apps, recent follows for podcasts). Are changes similarly afoot for the way podcasts are ranked?
- Feb 10: Back in December 2021, the National Association for the Deaf took SiriusXM to court for not providing transcripts in its app. The legal action is still going on - the latest is that we'll hear nothing until April this year. In the meantime, a standard for transcripts in podcast content has been produced; transcripts have been put live in Apple Podcasts, in Pocket Casts and in Spotify, and SiriusXM released a new app with transcription. It's our opinion that while the original court action was clearly instrumental in moving our industry forward, it would appear that the only people benefitting from this ongoing legal action are the lawyers.
- Feb 2:
Fun fact: in the Podcast Index, there are 112,200 duplicates (showing the same title and author). (There are a surprising amount of duplicates in Apple Podcasts and Spotify as well.) Algorithmic search normally hides the duplicates - but as the number of podcasts grow, so will the number of duplicates too. Widespread use of the
podcast:guidcould help this. - Jan 30: Apple released their financial results - posting an all-time quarterly record. Apple Services (which includes the revenue from Apple Podcasts) reached a record of $30bn, up +14% year-on-year. The company acquired an audio AI startup called Q.ai for $2bn, for reasons that weren't disclosed.
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