Unified application or platform for all OTT apps

With recent lockdown restrictions and movies or series releasing directly to OTT apps, it has now become mandate to have subscription of all leading OTT apps. However, with different OTT apps have different subscription plans, it has now become frustrating process to maintain all those subscriptions and keep track of expenses each month. To overcome this constraint, there should have been single application or platform that should enable users to maintain their OTT subscription and includes following features:

• Discounts for commitment to different applications: Since users have multiple OTT app subscription, the platform should offer discounts on multiple subscriptions and long-term commitments. This enables both the users and the platform to have profits for maintaining multiple subscriptions and long-term commitments. 

• One plan to track & modify OTT subscription: The platform can enable users to track the plans of all OTT subscriptions in one-place and this help users to modify their OTT plans based on their movies or series preference.

One day, hope there comes a platform, where users can update or modify or subscribe to the OTT applications based on their preference and get discounts for commitment on multiple applications and for long-term solution. To read more such articles, please feel free to check out the “G R Team Sites”

Lack of continuation requests in Siri

I have been using Siri frequently to make calls, take reminders and send messages to my close friends. At times, I use Siri to check my favorite sports team score or about general facts during my leisure time and most times, post questions the Siri gets disconnected abruptly. Each time, post query to Siri I had to reinitiate the conversation to get the desired answers, so here is the use case scenarios

• Sports team update and creating reminders for the game:  - When I check the current score of my favorite sports team from Siri, I get instant response with the answer. - However, when I wanted to make a reminder about the game's schedule or blocking calendar for the game, the Siri fails to follow-up the conversation and gets restarted. 

• Lack of continuation requests in Siri Siri instantly responds with accurate information on ordinary questions or stats, however when the continuation question is raised, it begins from nothing, and the conversation continuation was missing. 

Apple should address this concern and make Siri more intuitive, when it wants to rival against the likes of Google's assistant, Microsoft’s' Cortana and Amazon's Alexa. To read more such articles, please feel free to check out the articles published in "G R Team Sites".

Revamp of bundled strategy for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft

The bundled services are going to be next breakthrough to acquire major user base and create competitive war between tech giants like Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. All the major tech giants except Apple, lack offering bundled subscription services and following is my suggestions for each of the Tech giants. Following strategy revamp will help respective tech giants to improve their user base and help acquiring unaccustomed users to paid subscription services. 

	Amazon	Google	Microsoft
Uniqueness	·       Prime Subscription o Music Services o Prime Video for web series & Movies o Online shopping	·       Android user base o Google Photos users o Google Drive users o YouTube users	·       Office user base o Office application users o Affordable storage plan
Features to be included	Online drive to upload and store files or photos	Unique feature like Spatial audio or Dolby Atmos	Online music and video subscription
Driving Factor	Inclusion of Amazon drive to Prime Subscription	Bundled services like YouTube Premium + YouTube Music in Google One Storage plans	Bundled services with inclusion of Music and Video services to Office 365 subscription

Hope the above comparison help the tech giants to revamp their strategy on bundled services and focus on acquiring unaccustomed users with attractive & reasonable pricing option. For more such articles and strategies, please feel free to check out the articles published in "G R Team Sites.

Availability of Dolby Atmos in Amazon Music

Apple has really shaken up the online music platform across globe with announcement of Dolby Atmos support for its entire music catalog and competitors were left with no other choice than announcing similar feature in their catalog. Amazon Music was one such competitor, who got terrified with Apple's announcement and had at once announced that it will extend the Dolby Atmos support for its entire music catalog. However, following are the issues with Amazon Music's announcement of Dolby Atmos support for its music catalog 

• Yet to reveal launch date for Dolby Atmos availability: Post announcement of support for Dolby Atmos, Amazon Music has not committed on launch date for the availability of the feature and has been silent since the announcement of the feature. 
• Availability of music albums: Amazon Music has also been silent on availability of Dolby Atmos feature, whether the choice will be enabled in upcoming albums, or albums that were available already with choice of rendering and will the Dolby support music for older songs and regional songs. 

Hope Amazon music makes an announcement on Dolby Atmos support for its music catalog at the earliest and ensures the users were able to experience the feature, or the music lovers will soon switch to Apple Music for its uniqueness. For more such articles, please feel free to check out the "G R Team Sites"

Feature comparison - Onedrive vs iCloud vs Onedrive

I was looking to get online cloud storage option for a long time, however most service online cloud storage service provider in the market lacks one feature or the other and it stops me for getting one. In this article I wanted to detail about the showstopper in each of the online cloud storage options. 

• OneDrive: It has one of the most affordable online cloud storage option and access to its office suite. However, it lacks in the following. 
• Google photos like organizing photos/videos and lack of Chromecast support for iOS. 
• Lack of bundled apps like music streaming or video platform 
• Microsoft editor support for Mac word application 
• Google photos: It has one of the most advanced photos backup solution and video compression tech with inbuilt Chromecast support. However, following are its drawback. 
• Expensive cloud storage option for family 
• No FREE access to office suite of applications 
• Lack of bundled applications subscription like music streaming or video platform 
• iCloud: It will be the most preferred online cloud storage option for iOS ecosystem and advanced tech solution for photos/videos. However, it lacks in the following. 
• Most expensive online cloud storage option, if bundled with all apps access. 
• Lack of Chromecast support for its inbuilt photos' app or iCloud Drive 
• Lack of access to most used office suite of apps. 

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Reasons why I hate or don’t like AirPods Pro

I feel in love with my AirPods Pro and each day I was surprised about its technical marvel in such smaller design. However, there are few things that I do not like in AirPods Pro, and I wanted to detail the same in this blog post. Following are the things that I do not like in AirPods Pro.

• Support for older Macs: Even-though AirPods Pro connects with older MacBook Pro’s like 2012 models, the features are limited and lack auto connectivity feature. So, while I watch movie or videos in MacBook Pro and suddenly, I get a call on my iPhone, the AirPods Pro does not switch to my iPhone automatically. I understand that I can take calls in my Mac through same Wi-Fi network and sometimes when I attend call through Mac, the call quality was poor and there was huge delay in audio. 
• Unwanted Noise-cancellation feature while taking calls: Noise cancellation feature in AirPods Pro was one of the unique and stand-alone option among other similar headphones. However, while taking calls with noise cancellation feature was turned on, your voice might be too loud without knowing how loud your voice was and sometimes the voice seems to be too low for the person in other end of the call. So, AirPods Pro should have an in-built option to turn-off noise cancellation feature while taking phone calls. 
• Lack of spatial audio content and limited availability: AirPods Pro support spatial audio and Apple demonstrated the feature using Apple TV+. However, it has been more than a year since the feature was launched and the spatial audio option was limited only to Apple TV+ till now. There were rumours that other OTT platforms would also adopt spatial audio, and none has adopted for a long time. Due to this, I have not been using spatial audio feature in Airpods Pro and at time forget that such feature exists. 

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Why I prefer getting MacBook and MAC operating system

For a long time, I was thinking to replace my old MacBook Pro and find new one that can hold for a long time. The most important thing that is stopping me from getting new laptop is the pricing from Apple. Even though Apple charges premium price for its products, the pricing was justifiable for the following reasons

• Reliability and quality: The finishing of the Apple products was always top notch, and the reliability cannot be compared with any other Laptop in its category. Example: If Apple promises that battery will perform better till its reaches 500 cycles, then users can be sure of its performance till the committed baseline and sometimes even exceeding the standards 
• Operating system: Mac operating system is one of the best and it performs all tasking thrown at it with ease. One more interesting thing I like about Mac operating system is that I am a normal laptop user and will not do much work other than browsing, movies and office productive works. With this usage, I do not even care about installing separate anti-virus software and I will also be cautious about clicking links and in-built alerts from operating system. 
• RAM management: Another important thing I link about using Mac operating system is that I do not need to clear up my RAM manually and all the processing is taken care by the core operating system. 

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Learn about project management Office in IT world

The Project Management Office or PMO in the IT world is nothing but a team comprising of various stakeholders such as Project Manager, Delivery Manager, project coordinator and Business Owner. The PMO office ultimate goal is to take complete ownership of the deliverables and manage day-to-day activities delivered by IT team. The following areas to be completely owned and controlled by the PMO team:

• Responsible for steering the IT project to success by working closely with the business owner/experts. 

• Develop and track detailed and integrated project work schedule and allocate resources against the schedule 

• Periodically appraise the business owner/group and other project stake holders of the project progress and issues that requires attention 

• Assign task(s) to the project team, and review the progress of the tasks 

• Set project quality goals and review deliverables against these goals 

• Set and monitor project budget and costs to ensure delivering the project within the budget 

• Continuously communicate the various project stake holders to align them towards set project goals 

• Periodically track and assess the project risks and develop plans to mitigate such risks

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