Mac OS Ken: 08.14.2020

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

- Apple/Google API Employed in Small But Growing Number of States - Epic Games Flagrantly Circumvents App Store Rules in Fortnite - Apple Boots Fortnite from App Store - Epic Files Suit Against Apple - Google Boots Fortnite from Play Store - Epic Files Suit Against Google - Spotify Sides with Epic in App Store Battle Royale - Apple and Other Big Companies Argue Against Total WeChat Ban - Survey: 95% of iPhone Owners Would Switch if iPhone Loses WeChat - Apple Shares Hit New Intraday and Closing Highs - "Ted Lasso" and Boys State Hit Apple TV+ - Radio + Gaga = Gaga Radio on Beats 1 - Cut your wireless bill to 15-bucks a month at MintMobile.com/MACOSKEN - Do you have a Few Minutes for "In a Few Minutes?" It's in Apple Podcasts and Overcast now! - Power what we do next for as little as $1 a month. Join the Mac OS Ken Test Kitchen at Patreon at Patreon.com/macosken - Send me an email: info@macosken.com or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is waking up to the Apple Google API, the epic Fortnight App Store Battle and
0:19.3	We Chat, We Chat, It's Friday the 14th of August, 2020. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco
0:29.6	West Ken brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by mint mobile.
0:35.7	Cut your wireless build at 15 bucks a month at mint mobile.com slash Maco-Sken. This show is also supported by people like you, patrons
0:49.3	through Patreon. Find out more and that your support at Patreon.com slash MacoS cab.
1:01.4	Faint and fallout the Apple Google Exposure Notification API will be going to work in three US
1:08.0	states over the next four days.
1:11.6	Mac rumors ran the news that Alabama, North Dakota, and Wyoming are finally
1:16.1	getting on the contact tracing train. North Dakota's Care 19 Alert app actually
1:21.9	launched yesterday according to the piece.
1:24.0	Wyoming's app should go live today.
1:27.0	The app for Alabama should be available Monday according to the report.
1:31.0	That gives North Dakota, Wyoming, and Alabama second, third, and honorable mention.
1:38.4	Virginia actually became the first state in the Union with the COVID-19 app using the Apple Google
1:44.7	API. Mac rumor says Washington and Pennsylvania are expected to follow suit in the
1:51.6	coming weeks.
1:53.0	Hard to know exactly how to address what happened yesterday between Epic Games, Apple, and Google.
2:02.0	Epic is the publisher of one of the biggest games around, Fortnite.
2:07.0	The day started with Epic dropping the prices of in-game purchases by 20% on console, PC and mobile.
2:15.2	Apparently assuming everything was on the up and up, the
2:17.9	Verde said on both iOS and Android,
2:21.2	Epic has introduced a new direct payment option.
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