Notes on Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which generates a podcast with two AI hosts discussing user-provided content and is surprisingly effective
the cadences, interleaving banter and narrative threads all of it is crraaazy [video] Deedy / @deedydas : NotebookLM may be Google's non-copycat product with organic traction in 15+ years with ~1M mon...
Sources: Apple will launch Image Playground and Genmoji in iOS 18.2; Sonos cuts its plans to build ~1M units of Ace headphones per year, to ~100K per year
Apple's AI features keep getting delayed — and that slow rollout likely means that the iPhone 16 won't see a “super cycle” of orders.
Sources: Tim Cook is pressing ahead with the MR headset debut this year, overruling designers' objections, and Apple expects to sell ~1M units in the first year
New launch will be first steered entirely by CEO and under direction of operations team — When Tim Cook unveils Apple's new …
Listen Notes: ~219K podcasts were created in 2022, down nearly 80% from a peak of ~1M in 2020 and lower than the pre-pandemic high of ~337K in 2019
Hope you all had a great weekend! We've got some big Hot Pod Summit updates for you all, as well as the latest in audio news.
US CPSC and Fitbit recall Fitbit Ionic smartwatches, after receiving 118 reports of burn injuries; Fitbit sold ~1M units in the US and 693K internationally
Fitbit has issued a voluntary recall for Ionic smartwatches that it manufactured and sold from 2017 through 2020.
Apple says that ~1M new apps and ~1M app updates were rejected in 2020, 470,000+ developer accounts were terminated over fraud concerns, and more
- Apple said it rejected almost 1 million apps that were submitted to its App Store for the first time in 2020.