Apple Saved Music. Why Not TV?
Back in the early 2000s, file sharing services like Napster devastated the music industry. Steve Jobs threw it a lifeline with the iTunes Store, offer...
Land of the Giants
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Facebook. Apple. Amazon. Netflix. Google. These five tech giants have changed the world. But how? And at what cost? Recode’s Jason Del Rey starts with The Rise of Amazon. Over two decades, an online marketplace for books became the world’s most valuable company. We examine how it got its power, what it’s doing with it, and what might happen to it in the future. Produced by the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Apple's China Problem
Much of Apple’s success is built around its relationship with China, which is both one of Apple’s largest markets as well as where most of its product...
Apple's China Problem
Much of Apple’s success is built around its relationship with China, which is both one of Apple’s largest markets as well as where most of its product...
"He's No Steve Jobs"
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple and infused it with his love of product design and attention to detail. His successor, Tim Cook, is widely perceived as la...
How Apple Got Its Groove Back
In 1997 Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy and falling far behind its biggest competitor, Microsoft. But that all changed when Apple started buildin...
This Changes Everything
In 2007 Steve Jobs took the stage and introduced something that would change our lives forever -- a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutiona...
'The Apple Revolution' is here
From its beginnings as a niche personal computer company, Apple became the preeminent maker of consumer tech products, a cultural trendsetter, and the...
The Virtual Future of Restaurants
There's a secret world of restaurants that you can only find when you open up the delivery apps. This brave new world of ghost kitchens and virtual br...
Who's Driving Whom?
Without delivery workers, there is no DoorDash or UberEats or Grubhub. And workers in this slice of the gig economy get access to a level of flexibili...
The Race for Your Dollars
The restaurant delivery industry is worth more than $100 billion. But none of the major apps are profitable. In this episode, the key battles that hav...