This musical production takes us from a fishing boat which is alongside a mountain that a rock climber is scaling–then the mountain set goes horizontal as she walks across stage to others having adventures, including a snowboarding youth whose parka is taken away like a prop by a couple of assistants, leaving him in swim trunks as he water skis, demonstrating the winter and summer sports attractions that Minnesota has to offer.
All the while these varied activities in movable sets are conveyed to us in song by the participants, including a man in a museum fine art gallery, which gives way to a state park where he is camping. Along the way we even see a woman toss her woolen cap into the air as a mini homage to The Mary Tyler Moore Show which was set in Minneapolis.
The bottom line lyric is that “there’s more to explore in Minnesota.”
Joe Schaak directed via Fiend for Colle+McVoy, Minneapolis.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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