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On today’s show:
- Porsche announces CarPlay for upcoming vehicles
- The NAB wants Apple to enable the FM radio built into every iPhone
- Samsung is so hated in Japan that the company is removing its logo from the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge when they are released in the country this week
- Accessibility seekers trying out an Apple Watch can use Siri to enable VoiceOver.
A text version of the podcast is now included at the end of this post for those who would rather read than listen to the news (or watch it on Periscope).
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Thanks for joining us for today’s episode of the AWT News Update, now featuring Accessible Apple news provided by our accessibility editor, Alex Jurgensen. In today’s news:
- Canada may be the first country other than the USA to have Apple Pay, if six leading banks agree to terms
- Two Tulsa roommates stab each other with broken beer bottles during an argument over whether iPhone or Android is the best (we all know that iPhone’s the winner)
- Ex-Apple senior VP Scott Forstall has a new job as a Broadway producer
- Netflix adds support for audio description to the streaming service
- Blind Bargains publishes a guide on how to enable audio description on iOS and Apple TV
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It’s hump day, and there’s some interesting Apple news to bring you on today’s AWT News Update:
- Apple is rumored to be moving to a new system font — San Francisco — for iOS 9 and OS X 10.11
- An Apple-backed group presses the US Senate to pass the USA Freedom Act and halt NSA phone surveillance
- Pebble may be having financial issues and slow growth…
- The Apple Watch will be used as a support tool for breast cancer patients
- An Indiegogo campaign seeks to give those who use speech synthesizers a unique vocal identity
The full script for today’s AWT News Update follows for your reading pleasure…
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The Apple Watch continues to lead the news this week:
- Apple displays Apple Watch banner ads on the top of the YouTube home page
- Two big solar farms and an initiative with the World Wildlife Fund are announced by Apple for China
- A blogger performs water torture tests with the Watch… and it survives
- Ten years after VoiceOver appears for Mac, Microsoft Office finally supports the accessibility tool
The full text version of the podcast script is available below.
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Happy Friday, everyone! Today’s Apple news runs the gamut (or should we say “Gamet”?) from grocery stores to vintage products, and everywhere in between:
- Trader Joe’s is adding Apple Pay support soon
- Sprint adds another seven countries to its free data roaming plan, bringing the total to 22
- Apple is set to make a bunch of old product obsolete on June 9
- Oculus says they’re putting development of the Mac and Linux versions of the Rift Virtual Reality Headset on hold for a while
The full podcast script is available below for your reading pleasure.
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Apple’s Eddy Cue has revealed that Apple is “working to” raise iTunes Match’s limit to 100,000 for the release of iOS 9. When responding to a question on Twitter, Cue responded:
“25k for launch and working to get to 100k for iOS 9.”
Our take on the news:
If Apple pulls this off it’ll mean good news for those who want matching in Apple Music but not iTunes Match, as it’ll save them $25 per year.