Do you have an Apple Watch? Are you a little bit in love with the Milanese loop band? We don’t blame you. We don’t have an Apple Watch, and we’re in love with the Milanese Loop band.
Well guess what may or may not be coming? A Space Black Milanese Loop band! Whaaaat.
Some eagle eyed Apple Fan noticed last week that a Space Black Milanese Loop band for the Apple Watch was available on the Czech Republic Apple store… crazy.
The band has not been seen on any other store, and has since been taken off the Czech online store, so either we’ll see a worldwide launch in about a week, or someone somewhere just effed up. We’re hoping for the former, because we love us some Milanese Loop.
The 2015 Holiday season was good for Apple in a few ways, one of them being that it was the biggest ever for the App Store. How big is big, you ask? Well, big happens to be $1.1 billion spent on Apps and in-app purchases over a 2 week period ending January 3rd.
That’s big.
On New Years day alone, customers spent over $144 million dollars.
From the Sauce, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller;
“The App Store had a holiday season for the record books. We are excited that our customers downloaded and enjoyed so many incredible apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV, spending over $20 billion on the App Store last year alone.
We’re grateful to all the developers who have created the most innovative and exciting apps in the world for our customers. We can’t wait for what’s to come in 2016.”
Apple said it has now created over 1.4 million jobs attributable to app development and non-IT jobs supported by the app ecosystem.
Apps, huh. Who knew?
Starting tomorrow January 8, 2016, AT&T will introduce a “pricing simplification effort”. What does that mean? That means the end of device subsidies, friends. It also means the end of two-year contracts.
Dun Dun Duuuun. After the 8th, both new and existing AT&T customers will only be able to purchase a smartphone at full price or with an AT&T Next payment plan.
It seems like some corporate users will be able to continue making two-year contract purchases.
From the Sauce, in a statement given to Re/code:
“With $0 down for well-qualified customers, the ability to upgrade early and down-payment options available with even lower monthly installments, our customers are overwhelmingly choosing AT&T Next,” AT&T told Re/code. “Starting January 8, AT&T Next will be the primary way to get a new smartphone at AT&T.”
Check out AT&T Next here.
After reaching 60 countries at the end of last year, and with many doubting their ability to get to all countries by the end of 2016, Netflix has surprised many with the recent launch of Netflix in no less than 130 countries.
Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO has just announced this past Wednesday that the company has officially launched its website in India, Vietnam, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia and dozens of other countries.
Welcome to losing your days to binge watching, other countries.
To give you an idea about how fast Netflix is growing, and how much potential it has for even further growth, in the fourth quarter of 2014, Netflix users watched 1/4 billion hours. In the fourth quarter of 2015, that number jumped to 12 billion hours.
Now that’s some binge watching.
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January 12, 2016 8:54 pm | 
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