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The Game-Changer Edition Sunday, February 25, 2024

MLS Season Pass: The World Is Obsessed With Soccer. Can Apple Make Americans Love It Too?, by Jordan Valinsky, CNN

A centerpiece of that plan is “MLS Season Pass,” a sleekly designed streaming package that ditches the fragmentation other sports suffer from and lets fans stream globally every game — without blackouts — in the Apple TV app.

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“We’re creating something new,” Sacha Kljestan, a former MLS player and now a broadcast personality, told CNN. “Something from nothing that, I think, 10 years from now, people will look back and this might be a game changer in modern television media.”

Google Says Microsoft Offered To Sell Bing To Apple In 2018, But Search-quality Issues Got In The Way, by Jordan Novet, CNBC

Microsoft offered to sell its Bing search engine to Apple in 2018, Google said in a court filing earlier this month. The document, from Google's antitrust case against the U.S. Justice Department, was unsealed on Friday.

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In the filing earlier this month, Google argued that Microsoft pitched Apple in 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2020 about making Bing the default in Apple's Safari web browser, but each time, Apple said no, citing quality issues with Bing.

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I didn't work on my hobby project this weekend. I felt too tired to do anything that requires my brain. Oh well. Maybe next weekend.

(I wonder how many weekends I have left.)

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