December 04, 2023

#SGGQA 327: Twitter's War on Advertisers, Filmic and Spotify Layoffs, Playstation Dumps Content, Reddit Tries a Rebrand

2 hours 31 minutes

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HAPPY MONDAY!

Last week was kind of a slow news week, but we're making up for it now! Twitter continues to be a dumpster fire. Filmic dumps their staff. Playstation drops the license to content you paid for. Spotify made money this year, so they need to layoff staff too! Reddit is rolling out a pretty redesign. Samsung pays a LOT for Qualcomm's chips.

And should we be concerned about the performance on the Vivo X100 Pro?

Let's get our tech week started right!

Stories This Week:

Juan on Android Faithful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBof6ugQkf0&list=PLHN12N7TXUyfvNb0GyYVUVus_B4GjgDWj&index=1&pp=iAQB

Juan on The Phone’s Show with Steve and Ted http://archive.org/download/psc778/psc778.mp3

Adam Doud on Best of Our Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vdy8mcUpe4

Pixel Fold Camera Review https://www.patreon.com/posts/pixel-fold-pixel-93926627

How does a Five Year Old phone perform today? https://www.patreon.com/posts/can-five-year-93857089

Xiaomi 13 Ultra MASSIVE fail https://www.patreon.com/posts/xiaomi-massive-93819665

Are foldables the better travel computers? https://www.patreon.com/posts/foldable-phones-93686297

Oppo Find X6 Pro Camera Review! https://www.patreon.com/posts/oppo-find-x6-pro-93474308

The LAZIEST upgrade I could make for my NAS https://somegadgetguy.com/2023/11/21/the-laziest-maybe-dumbest-upgrade-for-my-nas-lets-fix-my-plex/

MediaTek Interview: Smartphones and AI – https://somegadgetguy.com/2023/11/18/mediatek-dimensity-9300-and-the-future-of-mobile-ai-interview/

OVER TEN YEARS of out of control Apple Hype has cost us a practical AR future https://somegadgetguy.com/2023/10/16/sggqa-320-apple/

Paris Mayor Quits Twitter https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/paris-mayor-quits-x-platform-calling-it-gigantic-global-sewer-2023-11-27/

Advertisers Quit Twitter https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/xs-yaccarino-calls-musk-candid-and-profound-after-go-f-yourself-tirade/

Filmic dumps their ENTIRE staff https://petapixel.com/2023/12/01/filmics-entire-staff-laid-off-by-parent-company-bending-spoons/

Playstation drops content people paid for https://kotaku.com/sony-ps4-ps5-discovery-mythbusters-tv-1851066164

Spotify made money this year, but still laying off staff https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/12/spotify-to-lay-off-17-of-workforce/

Reddit starts a redesign https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/reddit-updates-look-after-rough-6-months-and-ahead-of-reported-ipo/

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Apple Drops plans for 5G modem https://www.gsmarena.com/report_apple_abandons_5g_modem_development-news-60749.php

Samsung pays a LOT for Qualcomm chips https://wccftech.com/samsung-smartphone-chipset-costs-in-2023-were-7-billion/

Exynos might get a rebrand to “dream” https://www.sammobile.com/news/exynos-might-be-rebranded-to-dream-chip-next-year/

Vivo early benchmark performance might be concerning… https://www.notebookcheck.net/Vivo-X100-Pro-crumbles-under-stress-as-Dimensity-9300-reportedly-thermal-throttles-to-less-than-half-of-max-performance.774134.0.html

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