10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning
Mar 19, 2014, 16:17 IST
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- Google revealed "Android Wear," which is Android designed for wearable devices like watches. So far there are no Android Wear-powered watches yet, but by the summer a few companies will have them.
- Motorola is the first to make an Android-based watch, and it actually looks decent.
- Analyst Benedict Evans weighs in on Android Wear and compares it to Apple's reported Healthbook application.
- Another person rented out their home to Airbnb and had disaster strike. A woman rented her New York penthouse to a guest, and when she came home it was trashed. Airbnb's ultimate goal is to be an end-to-end hospitality service. Before it gets there, it needs to fix these horror stories.
- Sony announced a virtual reality headset for the PS4. This competes with Oculus Rift which has been getting a lot of buzz.
- Here's a great analysis of what's wrong with all the big music subscription services. Spotify charges ~$120 per year for music. But the average person only spends $45-$66 buying albums and songs. Spotify is asking them to pay ~2X what they normally do.
- Tim Cook decided to comment on the new book about Apple, "Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs." He called it nonsense, and said it failed to capture Apple or Steve Jobs. It's strange that Cook made a comment, but he must be very angry about the book.
- We're not saying this is going to happen, but ... here is the worst case scenario for Apple's future.
- Twitter's dream is for you to always be tweeting while you're watching TV. It says that 33% of its users tweet during shows, and that 95% of public conversations about TV happen on Twitter.
- There was a rally for people that work at startups and don't get enough equity in the company. The person on stage said we need a "Rosa Parks moment" so they can get $1 million in stock to live comfortably in Palo Alto.