Pandora is raising paid plans by at least $1 a month, with Plus at $5.99 and Premium at $11.99 for current subscribers from October 22. Pandora ties the rise only to investment in recommendations and reliability, while the bill still depends on which store a subscriber pays through.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence60
Amazon repriced Echo, Kindle, Fire TV and eero overnight and blamed memory costs. The models it left alone hold more memory than the ones it raised.
Perspective Coverage
5 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 13%
- Operator
- Operator 51%
- Investor
- Investor 36%
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence68
Amazon's new Shop tab opens from the Fire TV remote, and Shop the Show now covers more than 8,000 US titles instead of 1,300. Lens scene matching runs on more than 600, and every purchase still finishes in the phone app.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 22%
- Operator
- Operator 56%
- Investor
- Investor 22%
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives70
- Confidence62
China's largest DRAM maker has two 24-gigabit LPDDR5X parts in mass production and says the platform behind them matches the industry's most advanced nodes. The only measurements behind that claim are CXMT's own.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption32
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives78
- Confidence55
The Verge's Charles Pulliam-Moore argues that streamers are re-creating cable from first principles. The evidence he offers is interface design, and that is what decides how a product team should read it.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives30
- Confidence50
More than 30 combinations went on sale in the US and Mexico under Roku's own Premium Subscriptions product, with Roku owning both the storefront and the screen where a household changes what it pays for.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives74
- Confidence42