It's time for episode 539 of the Clockwise podcast from Relay FM, recorded Wednesday, January 31st, 2024.

Clockwise, four people, four tech topics, 30 minutes. Welcome back to clockwise, the podcast where if we see our shadow, there's 30 more minutes of the show.

My name is Dan Morn, and I am joined across the internet by my good friend, my pal, my friend in times of need.

I don't know where I'm going with this.

It's Micah Sargent.

Hi, Micah.

Hi, I was looking around for my shadow and I don't see it.

So that's good because we're just going to do a 30 minute show.

Also, it's not an hour long.

Creepy is the other part of that.

If you don't have a shadow, I would get worried if I were you. Where is it? What's it doing? Where did it go? Oh, it's on the ceiling. This is some Peter Pan stuff happening.

To my left this week, the first of our two fantastic guests, the chief podcaster at podfeet.com. Allison, Sharon, and welcome back, Allison. Howdy, guys. I was just listening the other day and thought, hey, I haven't been on the show

in a long time. And then I got invited. It's so excited. The psychic waves worked. Well done.

And to my left, managing editor at Max Stories. It's John Voorhees. Welcome back, John.

Thank you. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here. Hello, everybody. I hope you're having a good day.

All right. Let me kick things off. Let's start with the third rail of current Apple discourse.

Apple's proposal to the European Union for the Digital Markets Act compliance, I'm curious to know if you feel like the changes Apple has laid out, which admittedly are not necessarily the ones that you will accept, but whether these are sort of meaningful changes or is this just a poison

pill, something designed to get people to stick with the existing terms by making the

alternatives unpalatable? Or is there something else that I am missing? Alison, why don't we

start with you? One thing that surprised me was that there are three fairly meaningful changes worldwide.

And I don't think a lot of people are talking about that the biggest of those is allowing

gaming apps to stream within their app.

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