TBD | Apple and Epic’s Battle Royale
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I follow Elizabeth LaPada on Twitter. |
| 0:07.2 | So I noticed when she tweeted about a naked banana. |
| 0:12.0 | One of the things that I have discovered with internet trials, |
| 0:16.2 | there are these moments where something that makes perfect sense in the context of online |
| 0:21.1 | is brought into a courtroom and you have to explain it to a judge. |
| 0:26.8 | In this case, the judge is presiding over the trial between Apple and Epic Games, |
| 0:30.8 | which wrapped up closing arguments this week. |
| 0:33.3 | And Liz, who is the deputy editor of the Verge, has been covering it. |
| 0:37.8 | Watching lawyers argue about things like banana attire. |
| 0:42.0 | There were these moments where they were having this discussion about agent Peely, |
| 0:46.8 | which is a humanoid banana, and whether or not a humanoid banana needed to wear clothes in court, |
| 0:54.4 | that was just like, I can't, what are we doing? |
| 0:57.2 | What are we doing with ourselves right now, guys? Like, what? |
| 1:02.4 | Agent Peely is a character in Fortnite, the most popular video game in the world. |
| 1:07.1 | And he and his pants ended up in federal court because Epic Games, which makes Fortnite, |
| 1:12.0 | is suing Apple, accusing it of violating antitrust laws. |
| 1:15.9 | One example, you can buy Agent Peely little outfits in the Fortnite app, but Apple takes a 30% cut |
| 1:22.5 | of that sale, like they do with all sales in the app store. And that cut is what Epic says is |
| 1:28.8 | an abuse of power, one that costs them and other developers a lot of money. |
| 1:34.0 | And if you're going to be making this enormous amount of money, |
| 1:36.9 | do you really want Apple taking a 30% cut of all of it? |
| 1:43.6 | Today on the show, Apple versus Epic, as we await a verdict, |
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