Google faces antitrust lawsuit over Google Play Store fees / Nintendo announced OLED Switch / 'EV Day' event held for Stellantis

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Adi Robertson discuss the new antitrust lawsuit Google faces from 36 states, the new hardware Nintendo announced this week, and what happened at Stellantis' ‘EV Day’. Further reading: Who needs COVID-19 boosters? Moderna starts human trials of an mRNA-based flu shot Full approval could make the difference for the US COVID-19 vaccine campaign Exposure notification apps could be more effective if they’re better at assessing risk Google faces new antitrust lawsuit over Google Play Store fees Google feared Samsung Galaxy Store and tried to quash it, lawsuit alleges Apple and Google crowd out the competition with default apps Donald Trump files sweeping, nonsensical lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google Twitter has lost legal immunity for users’ posts in India, government argue Nintendo’s OLED Switch: all of the news about the console upgrade Don’t count out the Nintendo Switch Pro A bigger, better Switch screen is exactly what I wanted Stellantis, parent company of Dodge and Jeep, had an ‘EV Day’ and it was extremely weird Verizon has its own version of spatial audio and it’s already pushing it on phones AT&T joins T-Mobile in switching all Android phones to Google’s Messages app for RCS Elon Musk just now realizing that self-driving cars are a ‘hard problem’ iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 preview: a first look at Apple’s latest software Maine passes the strongest state facial recognition ban yet Welcome to Simulation City, the virtual world where Waymo tests its autonomous vehicles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on The Vergecast, Addy Robertson joins the show. We talk about the big antitrust
0:03.5	lawsuit in school for Play Store fees on Android, go over the new Nintendo Switch OLED model,
0:09.2	and we talk about some pretty intense EV car company slogans. Let's come up on The Vergecast now.
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1:25.6	financial decisions. Hello and welcome to Vergecast, the flagship podcast, the spatial audio,
1:37.9	with the Verizon version. They should just pay us. Verizon, if your hands, if you're listening,
1:43.7	this is a branded content opportunity like you wouldn't believe he's not listening. Anyway,
1:48.7	I'm Neil, I'm your friend. Deeta Brown is here. I'm here. No way I'm over here. Andrew, make sure
1:54.1	that you switch my voice from left to right on that. Eddie Robertson is here. There's a lot to
1:58.9	talk about this week. There's a lot going on. There's an endless variety of antitrust news. There's
2:03.6	a new Nintendo switch. There is, in fact, a hilarious Verizon proprietary spatial audio codec.
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