Peloton is Coming To Australia

10-03-2021 • 9 Min.

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

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 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

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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