James Jarvis, Rapha\u00ebl Vig\u00e9e, Filip Gr\u0119bowski and Brychan Bennett-Odlum have been named in Business Insider’s UK Tech 100 for their development of their own open-source web based player for Apple Music.<\/p>\n
Every year, Business\u00a0Insider<\/a>, the largest business news site on the web,\u00a0tracks down and showcases the 100 most influential and interesting<\/strong> people impacting the British technology industry.<\/p>\n The students came to\u00a0Business Insider\u2019s\u00a0attention\u00a0when it was announced<\/a><\/strong> earlier this year\u00a0<\/strong>that they had attracted the attention of Apple<\/strong> with their new music service, Musish<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Having realised that Apple does not offer a web player for its music service in the same way that the likes of Spotify does, the students, all of whom were participating in the\u00a0Cisco International Internship Program<\/strong>\u00a0in California\u00a0during the\u00a0Year in Industry<\/a>\u00a0part of their\u00a0computer science degree<\/a>,\u00a0developed their own open-source web based player<\/strong> for\u00a0Apple Music.<\/p>\n During May, the team was invited by Apple to meet with some of their executives<\/strong>\u00a0at Cupertino. While the particular details of that meeting remain private, James Jarvis described it as\u00a0\u2018extremely positive\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0\u2018encouraging\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Apple separately launched<\/strong> its own web interface for Apple Music in September.<\/p>\n Business Insider said: \u2018If your product\u2019s good enough, big tech can\u2019t help but pay attention \u2014 even if you\u2019re still in college<\/strong>\u2018.<\/p>\n To see the full Tech 100 list go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Adapted from the original blog post.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" James Jarvis, Rapha\u00ebl Vig\u00e9e, Filip Gr\u0119bowski and Brychan Bennett-Odlum have been named in Business Insider’s UK Tech 100 for their development of their own open-source … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}