Month: September 2023
The case for creating new art for every podcast episode
This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Happy Tuesday! Got a super-packed issue of Hot Pod today for everyone. First off, I’ll take a look at Spotify’s chief public affairs officer’s lengthy new blog post about Apple’s App Store policies. Also, Apple’s iOS…
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Justice Department and Google spar over public access to antitrust trial files
The Justice Department has removed access to publicly posted trial documents in US v. Google amid a dispute over how files should be made available online, according to reporter Leah Nylen of Bloomberg. Nylen, reporting from the courtroom, said that Judge Amit Mehta will make a decision in the morning…
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Roblox is rolling out in-experience subscriptions, but you can’t buy them yet
Why are subscriptions purchased in local currency but paid in Robux? Subscriptions renew automatically unless the user actively cancels. To support this automatic renewal feature, subscribers will pay in real world currency. Automatic renewals help to retain subscribers which leads to more opportunities for creators to earn from an ongoing…
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The new Fitbit app is rolling out now – here are the 5 biggest changes
Following last month’s reveal, Google is now rolling out its redesigned Fitbit app having reorganized the user interface to make it easier to use. Additionally, five new features were added that we haven’t seen before. First, the company has improved the communication between your phone’s sensors and Fitbit giving users…
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Resident Evil Village on the iPhone 15 Pro actually looks pretty good
In a recent interview with IGN, an Apple executive claimed that the iPhone 15 Pro was “going to be the best game console.” I was skeptical; although Apple boasted about the capabilities of its new GPU in its A17 Pro chip and said high-fidelity games like Resident Evil Village, the…
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Fitbit updates its app and teases something for September 28th
The news teaser is brief: it’s a six-second video on X (formerly Twitter) showing a person swinging their arms and wearing a wrist tracker of some kind that looks a lot like something from the Charge family. A new Fitbit tracker crossed the FCC recently, so it’s not a total…
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