Is Apple’s Monopoly Good for Us?
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🗓️ 23 March 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week: Biden’s comin’ for your iPhone! Or at least, his administration wants to make it less restrictive to third-party developers. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the new Apple DOJ lawsuit, how Reddit can leverage its massive IPO, and new rules for real estate brokers that could change the home-buying experience. In the Plus segment: Unilever is dropping Ben & Jerry’s. When did America stop screaming for ice cream?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Felix Samuel of Axios with Elizabeth Spires, New York Times. |
| 0:22.3 | Hello. |
| 0:22.9 | With Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:24.9 | Hi, hi. |
| 0:25.8 | We have so much to talk about three, four big stories this week. We're just jamming this show, |
| 0:30.3 | full of them. We are going to talk about the big Department of Justice antitrust suit against Apple, |
| 0:35.5 | which wiped $114 billion off the Apple stock valuation. |
| 0:40.0 | We are going to talk about the Reddit IPO and possibly even next week's listing of True Social. |
| 0:46.8 | We are going to talk about the National Association of Realtors and the way that buyers commissions are now up in the air and questions of what happens to the |
| 0:56.5 | entire real estate broker industry. |
| 0:59.0 | We're going to talk about that. |
| 1:00.2 | We have a Slate Plus segment about Ben & Jerry's and ice cream and the business of ice cream. |
| 1:05.8 | It's all coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:12.2 | There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's. |
| 1:15.8 | Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's. |
| 1:20.2 | You'll get to know the difference. |
| 1:22.0 | New Big Arch for Big McDonald's hunger. |
| 1:27.5 | Until 9th of September, from 11am, |
| 1:29.9 | participating restaurants only, subject to availability. |
| 1:32.2 | Here's the truth about AI. |
| 1:34.3 | AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into. |
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