AppleInsider Staff
This week's AppleInsider podcast discusses Apple's battle with Google over the education market, a rumored suspension of negotiations toward an over-the-top TV service and the next-generation Apple Watch, among other topics.
This week Mikey Campbell and Victor Marks go one-on-one to talk about:
- Apple TV App Store gains over 400 apps each week, half are games
- Remote app now compatible with Apple TV
- Walmart Pay to rival Apple Pay
- Cook calls out Google Chromebooks in fight over education market
- Apple puts brakes on rumored over-the-top streaming TV service
- Cook says iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case design is easy to use, not a hump
- Current Apple Watch owners plan to gift the device to others
- Best Buy drops Apple Watch pricing to as low as $249
- iOS 9.2 update fixes iPad Pro blackout issue
The show is available on iTunes and your favorite podcast apps by searching for "AppleInsider." Click here to listen, subscribe, and don't forget to rate our show.
Listen to the embedded SoundCloud feed below:
Show note links:
- Apple TV App Store gains over 400 apps each week, nearly half of all apps are games, data shows
- Apple Remote app for Apple Watch, iOS now compatible with Apple TV tvOS 9.1
- Apple TV App Store gains over 400 apps each week, nearly half of all apps are games, data shows
- Walmart launches QR code mobile payment system to rival Apple Pay
- Cook says Apple won't race Google to bottom of education market, calls Chromebooks 'test machines'
- Apple's streaming TV talks fell apart on push for 'skinny' channel bundle priced under $30/month - report
- Apple's over-the-top television service put on hold, says Les Moonves [u]
- Tim Cook lauds new iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case design as easy to use
- 62 percent of current owners planning to gift Apple Watch to others, poll says
- Best Buy drops Apple Watch pricing to as low as $249 with new wave of $100 discounts
- iOS 9.2 update should fix iPad Pro blackouts, Apple says
The show is now also available on Stitcher Radio.
Follow our hosts on Twitter: @vmarks and @mikeycampbell81.
Feedback and comments are always appreciated, Please send in to the AppleInsider podcast at news@appleinsider.com and follow us on Twitter @appleinsider. as are questions We'd appreciate your feedback and comments, as well as any questions that we can answer on future episodes. Send your responses to the AppleInsider podcast at news@appleinsider.com and follow or tweet at us @appleinsider.
Those interested in sponsoring the show can reach out to us at advertising@appleinsider.com.
Special thanks for Borja Rojano for production help with this episode.
Christine McKee
Amber Neely
Andrew O'Hara
Malcolm Owen
Mike Wuerthele and Malcolm Owen
William Gallagher
3 Comments
The link to this story from the front page is broken.
Also, in today's news:
Steve Guggenheimer, the corporate vice president and self-styled chief evangelist at Microsoft, talking to the Indo-Asian News Service, dropped a couple gems—
1. "Microsoft is 'sort of re-building' its smartphone business..." Yeah, "sort of."
2. Guggenheimer's statement that the company wants to make a "little dent" (in Apple's profits) is a first for Microsoft and a candid admission of the uphill struggle the company is facing.