New Apple Sports App Just Dropped!

Summary

The hosts discuss new Apple products and services, including Apple Music's monthly listening stats, the new Apple Sports app, and Apple TV's MLS coverage. They critique the prominence of betting odds in the Apple Sports app as an unusual choice for Apple's typically family-friendly offerings. Conversation touches on preferred teams, fantasy basketball, and contrasts between Apple's stats and more specialized sports apps. There are lighthearted debates around the utility of monthly listening recaps versus annual ones and good-natured sports rivalries between the hosts.

Takeaways

• 😀 Apple Music Replay provides monthly listening stats, similar to Spotify Wrapped
• 🎧 The hosts have been listening to two albums on repeat all year
• 📻 They recommend 91.1 WFMU radio station in the Jersey City/NYC area
• 👂 Apple Music Replay can only be accessed via web browser
• 📱 The new Apple Sports app prominently displays betting odds
• 🏈 The app currently covers various sports leagues, more coming later
• ⚽️ The app provides real-time scoring, sometimes faster than TV
• 🏀 Fantasy basketball chat about Buddy Hield
• 😕 The hosts question why betting odds are shown so prominently
• 🤔 They speculate if Apple gets a cut of betting affiliate revenue

Q & A

What new app did Apple recently launch?

Apple recently launched a sports app called Apple Sports.

What is the Apple Music Replay feature?

Apple Music Replay shows users their most listened to songs each month, similar to Spotify's yearly Spotify Wrapped recap.

What radio station did the hosts recommend?

The hosts recommended 91.1 WFMU, a radio station located in Jersey City that can be heard in the nearby New York City area.

What two albums has the host been listening to lately?

The host has been listening to Andy Shauf's album Norm and a Nina Simone live compilation album recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

What sports will be included in the Apple Sports app?

The Apple Sports app currently includes MLS, NBA, NCAA basketball, NHL, Bundesliga, La Liga, Liga MX, Liga 1, Premier League, Serie A, and more soccer leagues. Upcoming sports are WNBA, MLB and NFL.

Why did the host find the betting odds being the first thing you see in the Apple Sports app interesting?

The host found it interesting because Apple positions itself as family-friendly, so betting odds seem out of character. There is also speculation that Apple may be getting a kickback from betting apps.

What countries is the Apple Sports app currently available in?

The Apple Sports app is currently only available in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

What stat did the host mention from the fotmob soccer app?

The host mentioned the stat 'XG On Target (xot)' which he did not know the meaning of.

How does the Apple Sports app scoring compare to watching games on TV?

The host found that the Apple Sports app scoring updates faster than watching games live on TV.

Who has Buddy Hield on their fantasy basketball team?

Co-host Marquez has Buddy Hield on his fantasy basketball team.

Outlines

00:00

🎵 Discussing new Apple Music feature and everyone's recent top albums

The hosts talk about Apple Music's new monthly replay feature which shows users their top songs and albums each month similar to Spotify Wrapped. They debate whether it's too frequent or useful compared to the yearly recap. Each host then shares the 1-2 albums they've been listening to a lot in 2024 so far.

05:00

⚽️ Reviewing and critiquing the new Apple Sports app

The hosts explore the recently launched Apple Sports app which aggregates live scores. They note how the app surprisingly surfaces betting odds prominently and find it questionable and unsavory. They discuss added features like Dynamic Island integration and talk about sports coverage including soccer/football leagues.

10:04

Adam

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Keywords

💡Apple Music

Apple's music streaming service that competes with Spotify. The video discusses a new monthly 'replay' feature that shows users their top songs and artists. This relates to the themes of new Apple products/features and music streaming services.

💡Spotify

A popular music streaming competitor to Apple Music. Spotify has a similar 'Wrapped' feature that inspires Apple's Replay. This highlights the competition between technology companies and their offerings.

💡Apple Sports

A new Apple app for following sports scores and games. Its prominent display of betting odds reinforces themes around Apple's content and values.

💡Radio Station

The hosts recommend their favorite New Jersey radio station (WFMU 91.1 FM) on their commute, emphasizing the importance of music discovery and local culture.

💡Albums

The hosts discuss the two albums they've been listening to on repeat all year. This exemplifies how streaming services shape listening habits.

💡Replay

The name for Apple Music's new monthly listening summary. It highlights key engagement features that technology products build to encourage usage.

💡Dynamic Island

A feature on new iPhones that integrates system alerts/widgets into the camera cutout space. The host praises its integration with Apple Sports scores.

💡Betting Odds

Likelihood stats on sports game outcomes. Their prominence in Apple's new Sports app contrasts with Apple's typically family-friendly brand.

💡Google Searches

The hosts praise Apple's apps for reducing the need to manually Google information like sports scores. Convenience is a key theme.

💡Fantasy Sports

Online sports games where participants draft teams and earn points based on player performance. This emerges as an example of entertainment media convergence.

Highlights

Apple Music Replay feature provides monthly listening stats, similar to Spotify Wrapped

Hosts have been listening to albums by Andy Shauff and Nina Simone recently

Hosts recommend listeners in the NYC area tune into 91.1 WFMU radio station

Apple Sports app prioritizes betting odds over stats and information

Apple Sports app currently supports limited selection of sports leagues

More major sports leagues like NFL and MLB will be added to Apple Sports app

Apple Sports scores and highlights can appear faster than live TV broadcast

FotMob app contains very detailed sports statistics

Apple Sports app aims to reduce need for score-related web searches

Co-host speculates on financial incentives behind betting odds in Apple Sports

Philadelphia 76ers player Buddy Hield praised after recent performance

Fantasy basketball league standings discussed

Reminder that responsible sports betting includes setting restrictions

Transcript concludes with lighthearted basketball discussion

The podcast touches on Apple announcements, music recommendations, sports analysis, and more in a casual conversational format

Transcripts

we have some apple news though yeah this

is an entirely well not entirely but a

Big Apple section Big Apple section um

first Apple music monthly replay it's

like Spotify rewind but Spotify wrapped

it's like Spotify wrapped but every

month too much you think so it's too

much I have been listening to pretty

much two albums since the year started

I've Le this like serious two album kick

yeah so it would just tell me how much I

listen to those two albums that's what

I'm saying uh which would be kind of

interesting but I don't know I could be

wrong but my personally my listening

habits don't change that much month to

month I like the yearly recap because

it's a the year is long my winter mood

my summer mood my fall mood I feel like

doing it every month I'm just never

going to check this like I don't care

I'll wait till the end of the year yeah

it doesn't I don't know I mean we saw it

also like the Spotify wrapped has a lot

of really interesting fun little data

and they'll make your like aura or

whatever yeah uh this is not that this

is just like you listen to this song for

this many

minutes um so no complaints no notes I

don't know what what are the two albums

you've been listening to this year uh

let me let me see while you do that I uh

want to do a quick interjection and

that's because uh Adam and I drive home

together sometimes carpool save the

environment and on our drive home we've

discovered we really really like

listening to this radio station in

Jersey City 91.1

WFMU uh so if you live in the Jersey

City area or I think the transmission

makes it all the way to Brooklyn um so

anywhere in in the in the New York the

New York City general area check out

91.1 FM there's like always something

good on always we found so um but the

two albums I've been listening to and uh

I'm the host I can talk about whatever I

want this week oh let's go um I've been

listening to Andy schoffs Norm terrific

album and I've been listening to the

compilation of mon live at montro jazz

festival Nina Simone you would record

nice both terrific I don't need to know

how much I've listened to though uh what

about you I've been doing insano by Kid

Cy insano ins great album and creatures

of habit by kilo which is a random Indie

band cool cool you guys want to shout

out some music D no but I'm open I'm

opening up my uh Replay for February

right now oh oh yeah Walmart has wait

you use apple music not much oh okay so

that's funny I only use it in Vision

Pro so it's going to be real limited and

you're you're looking at this Replay in

the Apple music app right uh it brings

you to a website and then kicks you out

to the web app exactly yes for some

reason Apple music replay can only be

looked at in a browser don't know why

wait did Spotify WP the same no it isn't

right no yeah it's you can do it in in

the desktop and the mobile app but I

don't yeah that's the thing they just

only do it in the browser which is fine

Marquez what were you listening to in

division Pro so I I get to the part

where it says uh this is your replay

jump in so I click jump in and it's like

your replay is still in progress check

back in early March oh that's for

February it doesn't give you a January

one I think there is a January say

didn't listen to anything in I didn't

Len okay wow well big let down yeah in

other Apple news there an apple Sports

app now literally got launched this

morning yeah and it's

basically just a like score aggregator

is what it seems like but and this is

one thing we were talking about like in

before we were recording um if you open

up the app actually let me open up right

now just to make sure so I don't get

this wrong but if you open up the app it

gives you the game that's upcoming so

then if you click that game the very

first thing is betting odds on the game

oh

no stats no stats about players or

anything like that just betting odds

which doesn't even have stats no it does

if you like click into it but it's more

like the first thing it gives you is the

betting odds which I found very

interesting look if you Sports if you if

you daily fantasy or whatever the kids

are calling it these days like no shade

you know what I mean I get it it's fun

but it's also like

apple what are you gonna do porn

next like this is like the least Apple

thing I've ever that's more what

interested me it's very unapp likee to

me to be like cuz that is like for

adults betting is for adults it's like

and apple is positioning itself always

to be like safe for your kids like their

whole iPad thing turn off the screen and

everything and now it's just like nope

here's some betting odds this is

unsavory but anyway besides that the app

looks pretty cool no it does I'm excited

I'm excited to not have to Google

Philadelphia 76ers three times a day

yeah

exactly I know I know

Andrew yeah so I signed up for the MLS

uh Apple TV thing that they had and I

actually was really impressed with how

they do the scoring and everything like

it pops up on the dynamic Island you can

watch it there it's all really cool it

also does that with uh other teams that

I follow so like with Nicks Sometimes

it'll just pop up on the screen and I'll

not even know there was a Nick game that

day and I'll be able to like keep up

with the score one thing that I mean

first of all I should clarify this is

only available in the US the UK and

Canada which why I I don't know it's

unfortunate but we are in the US so I

can talk about it um it doesn't have as

in-depth stats as something like uh I

don't know how to pronounce this fot mob

fot what yeah it's an app that

specifically has crazy stats for soccer

or football in the rest of the world um

it's actually the Apple Sports little

Dynamic Island thing is faster than my

TV like a couple weeks ago we were

watching watching an Arsenal game shout

out Arsenal um and the I we're watching

the game Jess is sitting next to me and

on my phone I see Saka scored Saka is

like a good player and I was like oh and

Jess is looking like what what what

happened and she's like looking at the

TV and nothing happened yet and it was a

full like 11 seconds before he scored

which is crazy so I have to like

literally put my phone upside down when

we're watching the game because

otherwise it'll it'll be spoiled okay

I'm on fot mob right now and you were

not kidding bro oh yeah it's crazy is

crazy I have never heard of a stat XG On

Target and then in parentheses xot I

don't know what that means you know this

reminds me of what the what you said

earlier about how the this is going to

take away from the like the number of

times you Google who's winning or what's

happening in a game yeah it reminds me

of Apple's weather app which is it's not

as detailed as the most detailed weather

apps but boy does this take away a lot

of Google searches yeah for sure like if

I just add my top three

teams I Google the scores a lot who's

winning the game who won the game last

night who they play next when do they

play this team a lot of Google searches

it's all just there now something to

keep in mind yeah it's really smart so

some of the sports that they have

currently are MLS uh NBA and CAA

basketball men's and women's NHL

Bundesliga La Liga Liga MX Liga 1

premier league Seri a all the soccer

ones well I shouldn't say all the soccer

ones a lot of the soccer ones wow you

mean Football H yeah yes football sorry

okay excuse me the football there's also

more leagues that are coming wait

there's not even football uh because the

seasons the well that is a good question

are they going to add football next

season supposedly they're going to add

it so the ones that where the season is

over they're it's not included in the

press release but it's upcoming when the

season starts again so WNBA uh MLB NFL

those are coming word yeah so pretty

cool overall like I just found it again

very interesting that the betting odds

was the first thing you see dude I'm not

happy about that but you know I don't

get to decide the world we live in and

uh that is what it is I'm just like why

are they getting a kickback from that do

they get any money from betting apps

doing great why have that at the top is

it just one more Google search they can

take away also I didn't realize that the

odds were like the same for all the

books I would assume different bookies

set different odds but I've never placed

a sports bet so I I don't even if you

like click the odds does it take you to

whoever's they are or like is it just

Vegas odds it actually just reaches into

your pocket and takes your wallet it

does not say cuz if it was specifically

someone I would say they're making

advertising dollars off of that's fair

whatever it doesn't say if I click it

nothing happens yeah ladies if your

boyfriend Sports bets ask him if he has

restrictions CU if you win a lot in

those apps they put restrictions on your

account they kick you off if he says no

I've never been restricted he's losing

your

money

shout out buddy

healed my guy's played four games for my

Sixers he's averaging 23 points yeah

this is now a basketball podcast this is

now a basketball podcast psych Adam Adam

ask who has him on the fantasy team you

got buddy heeled who's got buddy heeled

on the fantasy team Marquez let me just

check Marquez just picked him up as

Ellis was saying that see what that says

be healed no

games no games today it's Allstar break

oh okay yeah but uh I do in fact have

buddy he yeah what what place are you in

in our fantasy league

marz top two but not one top two top two

I'm half a point behind Alex oh you're

sorting wrong that's no that's I you're

sorting wrong I'm right behind Alex we

were talking about this before we

recorded I half feel like Apple invented

these

levels if you don't hit like And

subscribe right now that light is going

to kill

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Adam