[00:00] Apple buying Beats with Casey Newton @ theVerge, Gordon Kelly @ Forbes
] Beats is 2 main things,
] hw headphones - 1B year, cost 14, selling 200
] 2nd thing is a streaming music service similar to spotify
] vision - integration = streaming service integrated with my mp3 collection with
] beats do not make 'the best quality' headphones
] could have bought spotify and senheiser, apple has a better brand then beats, but why
] beats owns 64% of the high value headphone market
] beats partners, Dr Dre and Jimmy Levine, Jimmy rumored to be working with Apple
] HTC getting 'screwed', owned a controlling stake, sold it back, have in integrated into their handsets
[00:00] more about Beats w/Andrew Mortonik, Android Central, John Paul Tidlow @Fastco
] design is unique
] artist backed curation,
] will beats integrate with itunes or overwrite
] social network only about music, concept has been tried multiple times, and failed
] sliding music sales, all services have catalogs of 10+M songs, everyone h, commodity
] Beats Secret Sauce - basic infrastructure of a streaming servcie, Jimmy Iodine, nothing tech wise that they couldnt have built themselves, ex itune radio genie
[00:00] nokia senior engineer responsible for camera hired by Apple
] nokia lumia phone cameras are best in industry,
] apple diverging from its tradittional history,
[00:00] MIT researcher says public awareness about NSA causing self censorship @ferenstein
] sensitive topics are being 'searched' less
] increased usage of duckduckgo.com
[00:00] CA gov moves closer to smartphone killswitch
] practically speaking best way to slow down smartphone thefts
] 3.1M smartphones stolen last year, up from 1.6M prev year
] of course, there will be those upset
] if bill passes, then goes to __, maybe around sept 2015 for law approval, then implementation by smartphone mfgs beyond that