87: A Game of Media Chicken

Apple's battery replacement saga and the parable of the infinite home appliance; Facebook and WordPress try to help journalism; Netflix raises prices; and the biggest trends from CES.

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Guest Starring:

Carolina Milanesi and Devindra Hardawar

Links and Show Notes:

Daring Fireball: On Apple's $29 iPhone Battery Replacement Program and Its Role in Their Earnings Miss

Apple Plans Three New iPhones This Year, Plays Catch-Up on Cameras - WSJ

DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps for local searches on the web - The Verge

DuckDuckGo Switches to Apple Maps for Location Searches – MacStories

You Deserve Privacy Online. Here’s How You Could Actually Get It | TIME

Pandora launches a personalized voice assistant on iOS and Android | TechCrunch

A New Publishing Solution for News Organizations — The WordPress.com Blog

Doing More to Support Local News - Facebook

Samsung shows off a 75-inch 4K 'Wall' TV made with MicroLEDs

How AirPlay 2 works on Vizio TVs - The Verge

August CEO on the smart home of the future - The Verge

Smart Home: It’s Connected Folks, not Magic! – Tech.pinions

NVIDIA's RTX GPUs bring ray tracing to laptops - Engadget

Netflix raising prices for 58M US subscribers as costs rise - Engadget

NBCU Shakes Up Executive Ranks to Prepare for 2020 Streaming Launch – Variety

Roku adds Infowars six months after other platforms ban channel - Digiday

'Miracle Puppy' | Austin Animal Center treats dog dropped by a hawk | kvue.com

Carolina Milanesi (@caro_milanesi) | Twitter

Devindra Hardawar (@Devindra) | Twitter