Podcast Episode Details

iOS 14.5 update features / Apple sales skyrocket / Podcast platforms amp up their product

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Episode 450

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Nilay Patel is joined by Verge deputy editor Dan Seifert and news editor Chaim Gartenberg to discuss i0S14.5, Apple's earnings, Epic vs. Apple, chip shortages, and Samsung's new laptops.

Senior reporter Ashley Carman joins the show to talk about the wave of action in the podcast industry this past week.

Further reading:

• People who are vaccinated don’t need to wear masks during many outdoor activities, CDC says
• Social media platforms become triage centers as India struggles with a COVID-19 surge
• The first problem was vaccine supply. Now, it’s demand.
• Officials lift pause on Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine
• iOS 14.5 is out now with new Face ID mask features and Apple’s App Tracking Transparency
• Why Apple’s new privacy feature is such a big deal
• Apple’s iPhone 12 and Mac sales skyrocket despite ongoing pandemic
• Here’s who Apple and Epic are calling to testify in next week’s trial
• Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
• Apple fined $12M by Russian regulator over App Store monopoly abuse
• Can Apple get you to pay for podcasts? 
• Spotify launches podcast subscriptions, but you can’t subscribe in-app
• Spotify’s miniplayer for Facebook launches today
• Facebook is building its own in-app podcast player
• Clubhouse is partnering with the NFL for draft week programming
• SiriusXM acquires Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible and a bigger stake in the podcasting world
• Spotify is raising prices for lots of its plans
• Spotify premium subscriber count increases 21 percent to 158 million
• Spotify is okay with Joe Rogan telling 21-year-olds not to get vaccinated
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