BREAKDOWN: Fortnite vs. Apple and Google Is the Internet's First ‘World War’
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
What’s truly at stake is the power to shape and profit from the future of digital experiences.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
Today on the Brief:
- Jobless claims down and retail sales up
- The U.S. Federal Reserve is running distributed ledger technology experiments
- The end of an era, as BitMEX begins KYC
Our main discussion: the big battle brewing between Epic Games and Apple/Google.
NLW looks at:
- Why Fortnite got kicked off the Apple and Google app stores
- Why Epic Games is suing in response
- Why this was all very clearly planned by Epic Games
- Why Apple and Google should be nervous about anti-trust
- Why this is about a much bigger future than just a single game
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| 0:49.7 | Here's the way that Angela Dalton from Signam summed this up. She wrote, step one, let Apple and Google |
| 0:55.2 | know that you won't be paying their 30% tax to them on the Fortnite mobile app anymore. Step two, |
| 1:00.7 | wait for both to play along by cutting you off from their app stores. Step three, slap a couple of |
| 1:06.2 | brilliant antitrust suits on the table, complete with violations of both the Sherman Act and |
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| 1:11.5 | Cartwright Act and an entertaining trailer of content, 1980 Fortnite, that would bring a |
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