Where's the license fee going?
"Oh, we're spending it on an effort to compete with Google, Amazon and Apple on their own turf."
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BBC plans to launch 'Beeb' rival to Alexa
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It will work on smart speakers, TVs and mobiles but would Beeb be a good wake-up word?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 27 Aug 2019, 13:58,
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After the runaway success of the BBC Scotland channel, this game changer is bound to be the BBC's next victory.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 27 Aug 2019, 15:09,
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I'm sorry, I didn't catch that. What channel did you want?
ELEVEN!
(, Tue 27 Aug 2019, 19:11, Reply)
BBC keep making weird decisions
The iplayer is/was a perfectly fine piece of software, did what it needed to, and seemed really popular. What do they do? Spend a load of cash on some new "BBC Sounds" thing, then put loads of effort into getting people to use it when it proves less popular than what they already had. It's mildly baffling.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2019, 15:56, Reply)
Took me ages to figure out why I couldn't find 5 Live Sports Extra on the website at the weekend. Turns out they'd canned the Radio section and crammed it into the Sounds section where I'd never think to look.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 27 Aug 2019, 16:10,
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Quelle surprise
Nothing to do with being run by a bunch of inept, institutionalised Muppets.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Tue 27 Aug 2019, 16:23,
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RadioPlayer was fine, and still is
but whoever put the Sounds app together for them really made a mess. The suggestions are particularly weird. After listening to a play from Radio 3 the algorithm seems to think that episode 4 of a 6 part series that I've never listened to would be a good choice. How could it work so bad without it being deliberate.
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I do still like the BBC
But it's being filled more and more with utter horseshite.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Tue 27 Aug 2019, 21:15,
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to be fair
It's not like the BBC is just a TV channel. BBC Micro*?
It's software not hardware, and they've generally done well there with the iplayer (sounds app aside). It'll probably just be a pointlessly voice activated iplayer.
*without which I'd have never played Granny's Garden
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The Micro was a product of it's time. Microcomputers had clear untapped potential, and the BBC were instrumental in getting them into people's homes.
However...
The boat has sailed with voice assistants. They've been on every smartphone and therefore in the pocket of nearly everyone in the country for the last five years. The last eight in the case of Siri.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 28 Aug 2019, 10:06,
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Still think if there was an equivalent today of BBC doing what they did with the micro
they'd get even more of a kicking from the right and everyone would just moan about the licence fee.
Was that the case then? (genuine question)
(, Wed 28 Aug 2019, 11:12, Reply)
Don't know to be honest, I was 4 at the time.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 28 Aug 2019, 14:11,
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What sort of an excuse is that?
Geeeeez!!!
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Wed 28 Aug 2019, 14:19,
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