Fri. 09/04 – Ad-Pocalypse (Not) Now

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The Attorney General seems to want an antitrust case against Google within weeks. Apple has delayed the Ad-pocalypse. Why the games industry is where Epic has all the leverage against Apple. Will a new display tech bridge the gap between e-ink and traditional displays? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Metalab.co Today In Digital Marketing Podcast Links: Justice Dept. Plans to File Antitrust Charges Against Google in Coming Weeks (NYTimes) Apple to Delay iOS Change Roiling Mobile Ad Market (The Information) Apple App Store Draws New Scrutiny in Japan, Epicenter of Gaming (Bloomberg) Oculus halts headset sales in Germany (GamesIndustry.biz) TCL's new paper-like display can also play videos (Engadget) Weekend Longreads: Cash App’s Surge During Covid-19 Pandemic Fuels Square Stock (WSJ) The Digital Future of Tabletop Games (A16Z) Robot Boats Leave Autonomous Cars in Their Wake (WSJ) Tech Startup, Trying to Be Amazon for Farms, Runs Into Ag Giants (WSJ) Inside Fitbit’s Plan to Detect Covid Symptoms With a New Wearable (OneZero) How I hacked my Lego NES into a real console (Input) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, September 4th, 2020.
0:07.0	I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.0	Today, the Attorney General seems to want an antitrust case against Google within weeks.
0:13.3	Apple has delayed the ad apocalypse for now.
0:16.7	Why the games industry is where Epic has all the leverage against Apple.
0:20.2	Will a new display tech bridge the gap between eink and traditional displays and of course the weekend long read suggestions?
0:27.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:32.0	Believe me this has been turning heads overnight. The New York Times is out with a story
0:38.0	saying that the Department of Justice plans to file antitrust charges against
0:41.2	Google by the end of the month after U.S. Attorney General
0:44.2	William Barr apparently overruled career lawyers inside the DOJ who said that the
0:49.7	case needed more time to build into a stronger one.
0:53.0	Justice Department officials told lawyers involved in the antitrust inquiry into
0:57.5	alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, to wrap up their work by the end of September
1:02.1	according to three of the people.
1:04.4	Most of the 40 odd lawyers who had been working on the investigation opposed the deadline.
1:09.7	Some said they would not sign the complaint and several of them left the case this summer.
1:15.0	Some argued this summer in a memo that ran hundreds of pages that they could bring a strong case
1:20.0	but needed more time according to people who described the document.
1:24.0	Disagreement persisted among the team over how broad the complaint should be and what
1:28.0	Google could do to resolve the problems the government uncovered.
1:31.1	The lawyers viewed the deadline as arbitrary.
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