Apple vs Epic Games, Apple Watch Rumors and Wi-Fi Router Review

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🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Apple and Epic Games continue to battle over App Store policies, Apple reaches a $2 trillion market cap, a more affordable Apple Watch could be coming in September, and Apple TV+ can now be bundled with other services. We'd love to hear your feedback. Tweet at Stephen Robles and Wesley Hilliard, or email us here. Find us in your favorite podcast player by searching for "AppleInsider" and support the show by leaving a 5-Star rating and comment in Apple Podcasts here. Don’t forget to subscribe and listen to our HomeKit Insider podcast covering the latest news, products, apps and everything else HomeKit related! Subscribe in Apple podcasts, Pocket Casts, or just search for HomeKit Insider wherever you get your podcasts. Sponsored by: ExpressVPN - AppleInsider listeners can get three extra months when you sign up for a year of service! Get the most secure and fastest VPN service today by visiting: expressvpn.com/appleinsider Raycon Wireless Earbuds - Get 15% off a new pair of Raycon earbuds when you use our link here: Buy Now Links from the show Apple threatens to close Epic Games developer account on Aug. 28 Apple 'won't make an exception' for Epic to skirt App Store rules iPhones with Fortnite installed hit eBay with prices as high as $10,000 Apple enlists Gibson Dunn to fight Epic Games suit, law firm previously retained in Samsung battle How to reinstall 'Fortnite' on your iPhone or iPad Apple first U.S. company to hit $2 trillion market cap Affordable Apple Watch, Apple game controller coming says prolific leaker Apple YouTube channel may have leaked September 'iPhone 12' event date Apple offering CBS, Showtime as a $9.99 Apple TV+ add-on bundle Review: Apple's final Intel 27-inch iMac is going out with a bang Review: The Rock Space AC1200 compromises on security for cheap whole-home Wi-Fi Linksys Velop Wifi 6 Mesh Router Those interested in sponsoring the show can reach out to us at: advertising@appleinsider.comSupport AppleInsider Podcast

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast this is your host Stephen Robles and with me
0:09.4	this week is Wes Hill Yurd thanks for joining me Wes.
0:12.4	Glad to be here again.
0:14.0	So as we were recording last week,
0:16.4	news was breaking about this crazy incident
0:20.6	with Epic Games and Apple. We were not able to cover it last week. So thankfully
0:25.8	this is going to be ongoing and there's lots of news that just came out this
0:29.0	week about it. But for our listeners if you have not heard yet or don't know the
0:32.4	details,
0:33.4	want to give you some background into what's going on between Epic Games and Apple.
0:37.4	So Epic is a game developing company.
0:40.3	You might remember them from the Infinity Blade game series.
0:44.0	Wes, I don't know if you remember, but I think they actually did a demo of Infinity Blade during an Apple keynote back in the early iPad days.
0:51.0	Do you remember that?
0:52.0	Yeah, I believe Tim Sweeney himself has been on stage at
0:54.7	Apple events. So Epic is responsible for many games and the Unreal engine which is a I think like a graphical engine that a lot of video games use is from Epic as well.
1:06.3	So recently, the massively popular game Fortnite, which is available on many platforms, but
1:11.9	is also available on
1:13.0	iOS, iPhone, and iPad.
1:15.0	Epic chose to push an update, not through the App Store.
1:19.0	So it was not some update to the Fortnite game
1:22.0	that had to go through the approval process through the
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