Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, August 16th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

The Epic Saga has reached a sort of conclusion. Epic Saga, see what I did there. That California

AI safety bill has been pruned back a bit. You can now add your California

driver's license to your smartphone wallet and of course the weekend long read

suggestions. Here's what you

miss today in the world of tech. Another long running saga has reached a sort of conclusion.

Epic has officially launched its Epic Games store on iOS in the EU, offering its

games of course including Fortnite but also in the quoting Wired. The launch, the most dramatic outcome of a series of new EU tech rules

passed over the last year, imports the longstanding rivalry between Epic and Apple onto European

Soil. Epic says its App Store will take a maximum 12%

commission on sales undercutting Apple's App Store where fees can reach up to

30%. The Epic Games store says Max von Thune, Europe Director at the Open Markets Institute,

has a good chance at taking a chunky bite

out of Apple's highly lucrative App Store business,

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Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney held the arrival of the

Epic Games store to iOS as a way to fix the quote largely broken mobile gaming industry.

quote competition wouldn't crush Apple's app store he said it would force

Apple to compete with better prices and with better features and better promotions and

better marketing deals and less advertising end quote epic is making use of a new EU regulation known as the

Digital Markets Act or DMA which forces tech giants to make changes to give

rivals more access to their closely guarded communities of users.

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