Apple Music and YouTube Music Joins hands for Seamless Playlist Transfer

Apple and Google join hands to "officially" enable seamless playlist transfer b/w their music apps. This new option arrives via Google and Apple both using the “Data Transfer Project” stack which was developed by the two companies as a part of the Data Transfer Initiative, of which both Google and Apple are members. This same ongoing partnership has also previously delivered the photo-sharing tool used to transfer photos and videos from iCloud to Google Photos.

Only the playlists you've created (including collaborative playlists that you own) are transferred. Music files, non-collaborative shared playlists and curated playlists, and folders in which you've organized your Apple Music playlists are not transferred. If the service you're transferring to doesn't have specific songs, then obviously they won't be transferred either.

Spotify can CRY in the corner and continue blaming Apple

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This is the Android 15 statue. It's the Bot holding a Vanilla Ice Cream cone. (Vanilla Ice Cream is the internal dessert name for Android 15.)

Source: Dave Burke on X

Google released Android 15 update to AOSP

Android 15 is finally available for AOSP (Android Open Source Project). However, Google has NOT yet rolled out Android 15 stable for its own Pixel smartphones. It's likely delayed due to platforms bugs and is expected to roll out next month,
mid-October.

The Android 15 update brings several new features and changes like Private Space, which creates a separate profile that users can hide apps in, a screen recording detection API, predictive back gesture, changes to background activity launches etc. You can view full list of changes in Android 15 here.

Android 15 won't seem like a major update as many features will get shipped with QPRs releases such as Audio Sharing, a revamped Desktop Mode, the Tiny Taskbar, lock screen widgets etc. However, apart from Google, most OEMs don't incorporate platform changes in QPRs into their updates.

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Samsung Galaxy S25 Series Lineup will only use Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 Chipset

All models of Galaxy S25 series across the lineup, irrespective of the country/region, will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 For Galaxy or the Leading Version chipset, instead of Exynos 2500. This is a different strategy from the Galaxy S24, which uses Samsung's self-developed 'Exynos' and Qualcomm's 'Snapdragon' together.

The Exynos 2500 is said to be reserved to power the next gen Samsung Galaxy Z Foldables. It makes sense though because the Exynos 2500 will be ready by that time since Samsung foldables will debut in second-half of 2025

For now, Samsung's semiconductor division will focus on improving the performance and stability of the Exynos 2500 chip. Samsung Device Solutions business has reportedly ordered executives of its foundry business to improve its 3nm and more advanced semiconductor chip fabrication processes to secure competitiveness in the market.

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Samsung plans to deploy facial authentication to prevent leaks

Samsung is reportedly attempting to prevent "trade secret" leaks by implementing a new facial recognition technology which will require employees working remotely to have their faces scanned from six angles before gaining access to Samsung's systems.

The system also enables continuous surveillance & is designed so that if the employee leaves the computer and the facial recognition tech no longer detects them or detects another person even, it shuts down the monitor. Samsung Display division has already started testing this new authentication system and Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDI, and Samsung SDS, are employing this new authentication system as well.

The labor union has raised privacy concerns. However, last year only, an ex-Samsung Display researcher who worked for the Samsung Display for 10 years conspired with other researchers to leak Samsung Display OLED technologies to display Chinese companies.

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Nokia Plans to Sell Mobile Networking Business to Samsung

Acc to bloomberg, Nokia Networks has struggled to compete with Ericsson and Huawei. So, the company discussed all the possible options with its advisors, which included selling some or all of the division or merging with one of its rivals.

Nokia's telecom equipment business is reportedly worth $10 billion. Samsung Electronics has shown interest in the acquisition to improve its Radio Access Network (RAN) segment. RAN helps connect smartphones to the rest of the telecom infrastructure.
If the deal happens, Samsung's RAN market share would jump from 6.1% last to 25.6% which would make Samsung the world's 2nd-biggest RAN supplier, just behind Huawei (31.3%) and ahead of Ericsson (24.3%)

Nokia obviously declined the report.
Samsung already makes 4G and 5G base stations, chipsets, devices, radios, and core equipment. It has supplied equipment to Telus, O2 Telefónica, Reliance Jio, NTT DoCoMo, Dish, Verizon, Vodafone etc

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