The iPhone continues to be overwhelmingly popular with teens, according to Piper Sandler's biannual teen survey. 85 percent of U.S. teens surveyed own an iPhone, and 86 percent plan to purchase an iPhone as their next smartphone. While the iPhone is still the most popular smartphone among teens, ownership is down from the October 2023 survey where 87 percent of teens owned an iPhone and 88 percent planned to purchase one.Both the 85% iPhone ownership and 86% intention to purchase an...
Apple announced measures on Friday to make it easier for music streaming apps on its App Store in the European Economic Area to inform users of other ways to purchase digital services, as it looks to comply with a European Union mandate. The announcement comes weeks after the iPhone maker was fined 1.84 billion euros ($1.99 billion) by the EU for thwarting competition from music streaming rivals via restrictions on its App Store. The European Commission had said in March that Apple's...
AI chatbots transformed writing, image generation, and -- most recently -- audio. Whether it is a text-to-music generator, voice cloner, or playlist generator, every day there's a new audio AI tool introduced. Now Amazon Music has jumped on the trend.Also: GPT-4 Turbo reclaims 'best AI model' crown from Anthropic's Claude 3On Tuesday, Amazon Music launched Maestro, an AI playlist generator that responds to a user's text, emoji, or voice prompt to create a new playlist with a unique selection of...
Amazon Music announced Maestro, its latest AI-powered playlist generator. The same feature arrived on Spotify a while ago.
Apple Music emerges as the top choice for HomePod users -- with Spotify also very strong on the platform. Is Amazon Music evidence of a monopoly? Recent research from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) has shed light on the competitive music streaming hardware landscape. It reveals that Amazon's in-house music services, Prime Music and Amazon Music Unlimited, are gaining significant traction. The popularity of Amazon Music, however, raises concerns about fair competition,...
Last year, Netflix made a particularly risky bet by pushing users who share passwords to create their own accounts — but it’s paid off. Netflix, the dominant player in streaming, added more than 9 million subscribers in the first three months of the year, hitting a record high of 269.6 million subscribers. “It added more subscribers than many analysts, myself included, expected,” said eMarketer senior analyst Ross Benes. “This signals that password sharing was even more common than previously...
Netflix announced its strongest start to the year since 2020 thanks to a crackdown on password sharing and the release of popular exclusive films and shows.
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Get ready to embark on an exhilarating journey with Apple TV+’s latest spy thriller, “Argylle.” As you settle in to watch this action-packed film, you’ll find yourself instantly drawn into a world of intrigue, deception, and high-stakes espionage. Directed by the visionary Matthew Vaughn, known for his work on the “Kingsman” series, the Argylle film […]
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Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud-service provider, owes tech company Kove $525 million for violating its patent rights in data-storage technology, an Illinois federal jury said on Wednesday. The jury determined that AWS infringed three Kove patents covering technology that Kove said had become "essential" to the ability of Amazon's cloud-computing arm to "store and retrieve massive amounts of data." An Amazon spokesperson said the company disagrees with the verdict and intends to...
Buy select Echo devices like the Echo Dot, Echo Buds, or Echo Show 8 and get four months of free access to Amazon Music Unlimited for a total savings of $39.96