On this week’s episode, James and Stefan discuss:
- The PC market is shrinking, which means Intel is firing thousands of its employees
- HTC announced a flagship phone, and the reviews say it’s meh
- For some strange reason, India’s getting an HTC 10 with lower end specs
- Logitech bought another audio company: Jaybird
- Amazon’s new $300 Kindle is polarizing
- Sony is making a movie about emoji
- Android N Beta 2 has new emoji
- If you use emoji, you’re probably saying the wrong thing to people
- Snapchat adds motion tracking to emoji
- Facebook steals Google’s head of research, puts her in charge of hardware projects
- Fake Steve Jobs wrote about his life working at a start-up, here’s an excerpt
- Microsoft’s iOS keyboard is official
- Huawei literally copy/pasted Samsung’s Gear VR headset
- Google wants to design an entire city
- Apple is thinking about adding paid search results to the App Store
- Amazon Prime has several new tiers for people who don’t want to spend $99/year
- Google Play Podcasts is now live, but only in the US and Canada
- Samsung stole rose gold from Apple and rebranded it to pink gold
- Google got smacked in the face in Europe over their Android business practices
- And finally, James wrote about his views on Twitter
The Voicemail 
Hi Guys,
Enjoyed your talk about Twitter last week. James proved to be a social media genius when Twitter changed the category for its app from “Social” to “News” this week. I have always been using Twitter more as a news source and rarely post anything (just a podcast question from time to time) but I thought I am in the minority. After listening to you and thinking about Twitter’s strategy, I have the following questions:
– Is the “News” segment that much more interesting in terms of revenue than the “Social” segment? Or is the segment obsolete and the only important criteria is the number of active users?
– So Twitter is now a competitor to news sites as CNN, The Verge, ESPN and apps like Apple News?
– Does Twitter’s policy for 3rd party apps hurt or help them in their transition to a news source?
– What changes do you anticipate Twitter makes to their mobile app? Will it become more like Tweetdeck?
– How was Facebook able to monetize its user base this successfully?
Thanks for the podcast. I don’t expect answers to every question but a followup on the topic would be great.
Jan Strasky