Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider podcast.

This is your host, Wesley Hilliard speaking.

I'm joined once again by William Gallagher.

And we're going to be talking all kinds of, you know, doom, gloom, death, and destruction over at Apple.

But before we get there, I want to thank

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It's usually an area between 20 minutes to an hour,

depending on how much we have to say on the subject.

But today we're going to be talking about the App Store.

One of the topics of the show is going to be about how Epic's been kind of getting

this free ride through this injunction that happened in the United States government and

forcing Apple to basically collect nothing for external payments. Other countries are asking for

that kind of stuff as well. So we're going to talk about, can Apple fix this whole dramatic situation?

And how would they do that?

And we're going to get into that in Apple and Sutter Plus.

But first, there's a lot going on.

William, how are you this week?

Upset, miserable, confused, all of those things, partly about most things we're going to talk about

now, including I'm going to say Siri, and I have a sense, just from what we've said in the past,

that I am vastly more disappointed by rumoured delays in this, and you are, because previously,

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