This week, on The CultCast: Apple aims to end music downloads; you can now live stream your aerial drone flights to iDevices worldwide; staggering facts about who’s making money in the app store; creators of Siri demo an even smarter AI; the ridiculous resale value of old Apple tech; and we reveal our Best List of the gadgets we’re currently coveting.
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This week’s links
Periscope takes to the skies with live drone streaming
- 1903: Wright Brothers. 1907: Model T
- Now you can stream live from your drone when you take to the skies with Periscope, Twitter’s service that lets you broadcast live video, provided you have the app on iOS and a DJI drone.
- You’ll be able to narrate the broadcast from your iPhone, and even Sketch right on the broadcast itself to annotate your flight.
Apple Aiming to End iTunes Music Downloads in Two Years [Update: Apple Says ‘Not True’]
94% of App Store revenue goes to just 1% of publishers
- 94 percent of App Store revenue generated in the U.S. went to just the top 1 percent of app publishers, according to SensorTower.
- SensorTower found that around $1.34 billion of the estimated $1.43 billion in net revenue generated went to just 623 publishers.
- That means the other 61,677 publishers had to share the remaining 6 percent of the revenue, which was approximately approximately $85.8 million. If it was divided equally, they’d have made less than $1,400 each.
Siri’s sequel beats the heck out of Apple’s AI assistant
The value of old iPods could be music to your ears
