Episode 451 – Chromecast is a Year Older

By | July 31, 2019
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Show Notes

  • Home Automation
    • Google replacing verbal assistant replies when turning off lights with Home/Hub
    • Wyze launches $15 pair of smart plugs
  • Android News
    • Sound Amplifier is an Accessibility app that helps people hear clearly
    • Google may let users rate apps through an in-app dialog.
    • Google Fi limits data SIMs to 4 per account
    • Google blames US Carriers for delay in RCS deployment
    • Google has made Android Auto work more like your phone, for better or worse
  • App News
    • Alaska, Ryanair, Air France, KLM, EasyJet, and Lufthansa boarding passes can now be saved to Google Pay
    • Gallery Go makes many Photos features available offline
    • Messenger Lite passes 500 million installs.
    • Google Photos has 1 billion active users
    • Solid Explorer now works with Scoped Storage on Android Q
  • In Other News
    • Happy 6th Birthday Chromecast
    • T-Mobile and Sprint to merge, sell prepaid assets to Dish to start new network
    • Ultraviolet shuts down July 31st
    • Congress proposes banning infinite scroll and autoplay video

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