Aktuelles: Voice Memos, Onlinehandel, Tech verlässt UK

Lesenswerte Analysen und Hintergrundberichte zu aktuellen Entwicklungen:

• Everyone in Buenos Aires Is Communicating by Voice Memo Now | Motherboard „These messages are sent almost exclusively through WhatsApp, which has around 11 million users in Argentina. Federico Novick, who is from Buenos Aires and is doing graduate research in Internet Studies in the US, said many people in Latin America use WhatsApp instead of SMS because it’s relatively cheap.“
• Der Handel von morgen – K5 Marktausblicke 2025 | Exciting Commerce Wichtige Zahlen und Einblicke.
• „CDs are the best format in the sense that they are so worthless as physical objects“ Die Bevorzugung von Vinyl oder Papierbüchern ist materialistisch und kunstfern.
• “Software companies are leaving the UK because of government’s surveillance plans” Ars Technica UK:“The company behind the open-source blogging platform Ghost is moving its paid-for service out of the UK because of government plans to weaken protection for privacy and freedom of expression. (..)“

   

  Small independent companies from people with strong principles are only the beginning. Bigger companies will leave because being based in the UK (or the US) will cost them more and more money. Given the current reality of economic espionage being done by GCHQ and NSA I don’t see how most B2B companies will be able to be based in these countries and have clients abroad. (Especially given the fact that the UK wants to implement a law for mandatory backdoors to encrypted data.)

• Nach Taylor Swifts öffentlicher Beschwerde: Rechteinhaber werden künftig für Streams in 3 Probemonaten bei Apple Music bezahlt Sehr eigenartiges Verhalten von Apple.
• VUT: 3 Probemonate bei Apple Music ohne Lizenzzahlungen gefährdet Existenz von Musikern Sehr eigenartige Argumente vom VUT.

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