{"id":4451,"date":"2022-07-10T11:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T21:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2022-07-10T11:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T21:19:36","slug":"mobileviews-podcast-415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/10\/mobileviews-podcast-415\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews Podcast 415"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MobileViews Podcast 415: Immersive\/Spatial audio? Dumbing of UI\/UX? ... for Jon\u2019s Mom\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=yfyzc-126defb-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4454\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mollget-noonoff-300x266.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mollget-noonoff-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mollget-noonoff.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gadget with no on-device on\/off switch. Must use remote control to turn on\/off<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/news\/netflix-just-announced-a-huge-upgrade-to-the-audio-experience-and-you-can-try-it-now\">Netflix just announced a huge audio upgrade \u2014 and you can try it now<\/a>\n<p>In addition to Apple&#8217;s spatial audio<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to some help from Sennheiser, Netflix is enabling standard two-channel speaker systems \u2014 like, say, your basic soundbar, headphones or even your TV\u2019s built-in speakers \u2014 to produce spatial audio sound without the need for a surround system. Spatial audio adds extra immersion by creating a 3D sound space, making noises sound like they&#8217;re coming from above you as well as on the left and right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/about.netflix.com\/en\/news\/netflix-spatial-audio\">Bringing Immersive Audio to Our Members Around the World<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/help.netflix.com\/en\/node\/126405\">Spatial audio on Netflix<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The dumbing down of UI\/UX<br \/>\nThe clue-ing down of UI\/UX &#8211; fewer visual cues &#038; options<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@davidecheverri1\/the-dumbing-down-of-ux-designers-b819c566addc\">The Dumbing Down of UX Designers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it worth having a list of MAC addresses and devices on your home network? With IOT, this is becoming kind of a nightmare! Also Asus Router oddities in features only in app not in web UI.<\/p>\n<p>If you use the web UI, it assumes you are dumber than if you use an app???<\/p>\n<p>Tangential: I bought a &#8220;swamp cooler&#8221; (evaporative) that doesn&#8217;t have an on\/off switch on the device itself. On\/off is only on its (easy to lose\/break) remote control<\/li>\n<li>Customer reviews on Amazon (comedic YouTube video) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nQpxAvjD_30\">What Shopping On Amazon Feels Like<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8230;Dedicated to Jon&#8217;s Mom.<\/p>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen?u=0&#038;gclid=COid8dLi6s0CFQrQfgodJ_8CsA&#038;gclsrc=ds#\/ps\/Ioaoswyblmdonyb42jg6stsl6om\">Google Music Podcasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\u201chttps:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/MobileViewscom-Podcast-Podcast\/B08K565TQS?qid=1640555789&#038;sr=1-1&#038;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&#038;pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&#038;pf_rd_r=TXEJVWB2VW471GJ9XQQ0\u201d<\/a>MobileViews Podcast from Audible.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss: Netflix just announced a huge audio upgrade \u2014 and you can try it now In addition to Apple&#8217;s spatial audio Thanks to some help from Sennheiser, Netflix is enabling standard two-channel speaker systems \u2014 like, say, your basic soundbar, headphones or even your TV\u2019s built-in speakers \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-19N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4456,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}