In July 2018, Delivery Hero acquired a minority non-controlling stake in Glovo and progressively increased this stake through subsequent investments. In July 2022, Delivery Hero acquired sole control of Glovo

Well, there’s your problem

Looks like this is an opt-in, supplemental crop mode, for streamers who have stuff that would work well for vertical orientations. Talking head stuff, live solo-artist music, etc.

The existing content experience is still there, but if you’re standing on the subway, and you’re watching a streamer react to a press release about a game, you can turn your phone and watch them babble in landscape while you hold the poll.

This is something an LLM can do really well, really easily, with little engineering effort.

The cat is out of the bag. Most of us have a bunch of unstructured comment data that is peppered with references to local weather, policies, sports, etc. Determining what city or what district you live in is, sadly, not hard in this day and age.

This only requires a quick integration and some promo engineering. Assume people are already doing it.

There is another major reason to do it. Businesses are often in multi year contracts with call center solutions, and a lot of call center solutions have technical integrations with a business’ internal tooling.

Swapping out a solution requires time and effort for a lot of businesses. If you’re selling a business on an entirely new vendor, you have to have a sales team hunting for businesses that are at a contract renewal period, you have to lure them with professional services to help with implementation, etc.

Or just use it like OG ITunes and don’t pay for cloud hosting.

You can still use the music app just like iTunes. You don’t need a subscription.

Apple technically lets you play music directly from iCloud via the Files app, but its functionality is not designed for music listening. It lacks essential features such as playlist management, metadata sorting, or playback queues. While it supports music playback, it’s very limited and overall not a good user experience.

I’m confused. Shouldn’t you be using the music app for all this stuff? That’s what I do.

Fucking lol. 6 weeks ago the brand team just changed all the brand colors again. They went from purple back to black.

Somewhere in NY there is a sign company making a shitload of money swapping signs off the HBO building every few weeks.

Fake money, fake death, real douche.

Looking at the downvotes, remember upvoting an article ≠ an endorsement of the shitty technology being discussed in the article.

We shit on the technology in the comments, and upvote it so more of us can read about it and shit on it.