10. Android 13 adopts Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio, a new Bluetooth audio standard that results in lower latency than classic audio. This allows you to hear audio that’s in better sync with the sound’s source, reducing delay. With Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio, you can also enjoy enhanced audio quality and broadcast audio to multiple devices at the same time.
This is huge! Now I wonder if I have any Bluetooth devices which support the new standard, or if I will be forced to buy new headphones (again!)
This happens to be my area of expertise (somewhat). You don't and none are planned to be released until later this year.
You likely don't even have a phone that supports it: Only high-end chipsets with Bluetooth 5.2 capability support it (check for an explicit mention of LE Audio in the SoC's data sheet; per my understanding the isochronous channels needed for LE Audio are optional in the standard).
Oh yeah, and it is huge, mostly in one way I care about: The audio quality might not suck so badly anymore when making phone calls because the standard finally allows more than 16kHz audio recording (the need for an extra profile has been removed).
Hey, nice, new releases! There's a chance that many devices are in the pipeline and have been held back until now with Android 13 just being released and the LE Audio spec just being finished/the marketing push just starting (it might be hard to believe how long I've had to search for basic information beyond years-old regurgitated press releases a few months ago).
For everyone playing along at home: Look out for "Basic Audio Profile" support.
I don't know specifically what Samsung does, but a lot of OEMs who offer similar features licensed tech from a company called Tempow. Tempow offered its own BT stack and profile called Tempow Audio Profile (TAP) that enabled streaming audio to multiple Bluetooth audio outputs simultaneously. Motorola and TCL deployed phones with this tech.
I don't know exactly, but my educated guess is that they form multiple normal Bluetooth audio connections to multiple devices. The standard allows this and the bandwidth should be fine too, so I suppose they just added a little bit of software to control it.
Its BS. The low latency part doesnt come from LE, but from adopting yet another proprietary blob Audio codec. Instead of standardizing on OPUS they went with LC3. 20 more years of royalties for fraunhofer.
If he is describing the work culture as "relaxed" this is an indication that you have created a culture of relaxed expectations. If this is not the culture you want to foster you need to hold feet to the fire more IMHO. But if you want a relaxed culture and accountability you can't have both!
Interesting, since the public perception of Yelp seems to be that they're an extremely unethical organized crime-style racket intentionally destroying small and medium sized businesses if they don't receive protection money after demanding it.
Maybe that's no longer the case or maybe it's solely isolated to Yelp's sales and marketing departments, but either way it doesn't seem to mesh well with having a good culture.
I'm surprised this is down-voted. Isn't this in fact the public perception? Last time I remember Yelp getting significant mainstream media attention, it was in relation to allegations of racket-like tactics [1].
I don't work for yelp or any company related to yelp. Two reasons it could be downvoted.
1) The external facing business image may be totally different to their internal workplace culture (this can go both ways).
2) for all the accusations I've seen of yelp, I've never seen anything more than a he said she said. None of the cases have ever gone to court in any country that I've seen.
Anecdote incoming: I worked in a mom and pop shop. We constantly had issues with people threatening bad/false reviews on different websites (Facebook/Google usually). There was also some amount of 1 star reviews that came in from Google accounts with no visible profile info and no description. These things happen obline, and I'm sure yelp is no exception. Do they sell more visible placement to businesses? Yes as do Google, Facebook, TripAdvisor,booking.com, uber eats etc. Is there any proof of them artificially posting reviews to tank small businesses and then removing them when the businessess pay for sponsored listings? Not that I've seen at least.
Disclaimer, I work for Yelp (a backend infra team)
TFA includes, although not clearly enough, at least one example of exactly this behavior (Google being big hurting consumer's) in their scheme to squash Yelp by inserting their own local results (with big ui) on the front page. There have been multiple studies showing the content on Yelp is far more evolved than Google's content (in # of ratings, # of reviews, average quality of reviews, # and quality of photos).
This is even with Google leveraging it's dominant market share in the mobile space to proactively push users to rate business simply by an AI connecting the dots on location. These nag alerts are not even something that can be disabled without also disabling all of Android location-tracking! Which is very irritating for me as I find many such features (for example, location history has saved my rear several times when I lost items.)
This isn't a fanboy battle like Sega vs Nintendo.
I'm not anti-google, hell I'm totally bought into their ecosystem (have had an Android since the g1, use a Google home, Google WiFi, Android TV, use all Google's office suit, Gmail, etc).
But even if you personally dislike Yelp (that's fine), it is simply a fact that Yelp has superior content in the local niche. Google is intentionally burying a competitor which has a verifiably huge quality advantage in the local review niche rather than improving their product/content enough for it to compete naturally. This IS anti-competitive behavior which IS hurting consumer's.
It even has downstream impacts on consumer's experiences within Yelp itself! Another comment complains about Yelp bugging you to install the mobile client rather than just show the result - this is absolutely a response to the existential threat of Google continuing to use their search monopoly to prevent fair competition. For better or worse it's the best shelter from the Google: at least until they start doing the same thing with Play Store...
This isn't even only a Yelp problem. Why does Expedia, for example, push users so hard to get the mobile app? Because Google has inserted their own travel booking widgets at the top of the results as well! Why is venmo killing off the website version in favor of mobile only? Maybe it has something to do with what you see at the top of a Google search for 'send money'.
The thing that is SO important to stress is that even if you are a Google fan (as I am), or perhaps ESPECIALLY if you are, anti-competitive behavior like this only results in hurting consumers by killing off competition. Turns out competition results in improvements for consumers.
Echoed. I got into their system and was able to get some real interviews through the platform as well.
When you get in, they give you three "guaranteed" interviews that you can schedule essentially any hour of the day with at least 24 hours notice. I suspect that they pay their interviewers for these interviews (hence the guaranteed nature of them), but don't quote me on that. After those three interviews, your available interview slots drop off dramatically; currently there is a two week wait period. If you do well enough (appears to be top 10%), they will start acting as a recruiter; you can have real tech screens through their platform anonymously, and "unmask" and go onsite if the screen goes well.
I'm not sure what the filter is for letting people in but I suspect it's fairly manual right now, especially if they're paying interviewers for the three guaranteed slots people get. Keep in mind that Gainlo charges $100+ per interview for the same service. I actually got better feedback from interviewers on interviewing.io than the one interview I did from Gainlo (YMMV of course).
This is a very good resource, but it has limitations from practicing point of view. You cannot use it for (unlimited) practice, like other sites mentioned in this post.
I continuously got "We are in private beta" on their site. I "came across" this site few times and wanted to give it a try. Their CEO (Aliene Lerner) was on few podcasts.
The way I got an account is when I clicked a Google Ad of theirs. Once account is created, I gave a practice interview. Interviewer said I was not ready for real jobs yet. If you do well, they refer you to Google, MSFT and such companies.
The best part (IMO) is your interview is recorded. You can listen and watch your performance anytime later.
FWIW I don't think they have Big N clients yet, though they do have e.g. Twitter and Lyft on there. Google is still remarkably old school with interviews: Google Doc for screens, whiteboard for onsites. (Although I've heard that's recently changing and they're allowing laptops for onsites, and are doing more onsite loops remotely through Hangouts.)
And technically speaking you can use it for unlimited practice once you get in, but you have to schedule way further in advance once you're past their guaranteed interviews, and there are fewer available time slots.
I live in K-Town in LA. I'm convinced these scooters are perfectly suited for getting and my neighborhood, but they haven't rolled out here yet... So I have been bringing back carloads of them from Venice and Santa Monica and introducing them myself. I'm only doing like 4 a day, but I've already seen a number of them being used that I dropped off (I vandalize with a distinct but subtle mark on the neck of the scooters to 'track em')
A few anecdotal observations I've had:
- People in Venice hate them more than in Santa Monica. Way more are damaged intentionally in a way that ends up being super useful for me: they use a sharpie to block out the barcode. Since I go out in the evening it's rare to find fully charged scooters in a nice line, which these jackpots are. It's easy to clean it off with nail polish remover.
- People are very curious and positive about them in K-Town so far. One time I pull into the parking lot of Boba Bear and drop off a few off.. and got a free boba tea as the manager said that it helps his business. Since I like to go there I end up leaving scooters there, and it's almost as if it's known as a hub for them. :)
- The crowdsourced recharger contractors do not mind coming out here to pick up low battery scooters. They never stick around.
- The biggest menace of these things is there damn beeping. It's loud and annoying as all hell, Jesus fuck.
- The biggest danger these present are janky scoots with bad breaks, or sticky/erratic acceleration. A lot of these scoots are beat up badly, but are still working and being used.
- Lime let me sign up as a 'Juicer', bird has me in queue. I interpret this as lime having less oversight on that process, since my address is not in an area they try to service. I haven't received the charger kit yet though, all this is just happened in last few days.
Personally I think of this as a fun robin hood style adventure. It will be interesting to see how perception evolves.
The 'what I'm working on' page was a fun show. I feel like you are honest about everything on your plan in public which is great. I laughed when I saw this hidden in the middle:
"Increase price for new customers to $30 a year. This will not affect existing customers."
Great looking service, I like the use case this enables for blogging from my phone. Does it render videos in the folder? It would be amazing if it could sync with a YouTube account and auto upload videos there too (and embed YouTube in the blog)
