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The Helpdesk
Peter Wells
104 episodes
9 months ago
A daily tech podcast from Australian journalists Peter Wells and Tess Bennett

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A daily tech podcast from Australian journalists Peter Wells and Tess Bennett

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Peloton is Coming To Australia
The Helpdesk
9 minutes 17 seconds
4 years ago
Peloton is Coming To Australia

Peloton is coming to Australia

  • Cult fitness brand Peloton is coming to Australia
  • The exercise tech company has often been described as “the Apple of Fitness”, due to it’s very shiny marketing, and full stack of hardware and software
  • The exercise bikes feature a large screen for streaming workouts 
  • Bikes will start at AU$2,895 - with a $59 a month subscription on top of that
  • Peloton’s announcement follows a massive December quarter for the company, which saw its revenue grow 128% to AU$1.38 billion
  • The launch is expected in the second half of this year


Twitter is taking on Clubhouse, Substack and Patreon with new products

  • The Verge has a profile on Twitter’s Kayvon Beykpour -head of consumer product
  • No new information here, we’ve talked about all the various new products Twitter is working on, including Spaces, and Super Follows
  • Still, it’s a really thoughtful interview and one that product managers and owners should listen to or read 
  • Kayvon talks about needing to shift the culture at twitter from one resistant to change, to one that embraces it. 


Amazon is working on a new robot

  • Amazon has more than 800 employees working on a new Alexa powered home robot, with the code name Vesta
  • There’s not a huge amount of detail on what the robot may do, but it is described as being about “the size of two small cats” that roams around the house & will have multiple cameras and screens 
  • Internally, the project has caused some grief due to delays and redesigns, with some worried the device will have limited “mainstream appeal” - or even worse, become another complete dud, like the Amazon Fire Phone 


Pete Evans Is Back On Facebook, Which The Company Says Is Fine

  • Celebrity chef and expensive lamp seller Pete Evans is back on Facebook 
  • In November, Facebook banned the page “Chef Pete Evans” for continually breaking the platform's rules on spreading covid and vaccine misinformation. 
  • Evan’s new page is there to support Evan’s senate race, and is called, Pete Evans – Senate – Great Australia Party’
  • “Facebook has a recidivism policy that prohibits people from creating new Pages that are similar to ones that were removed for violating the platform’s rules.” 
  • But in this case, Facebook seems to think Pete Evans Potential senator is very different to Pete Evans Chef. 





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The Helpdesk
A daily tech podcast from Australian journalists Peter Wells and Tess Bennett

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.