Welcome to TechStuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

Hey there and welcome to TechStup. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland. I'm an

executive producer with I Heart Radio and I love all things Tech. And as I record

this it is August 2020 and there is an epic

showdown going on between two tech companies. An epic, epic, or maybe an Epic Epic Showdown.

What I mean to say is that the company, Epic, or Epic Games, known for video games in general and the Juggernaut game Fortnite in particular,

is facing off against the sometimes trillion dollar monolithic company Apple,

and things are getting spicy. But why are these two

companies feuding and how are things escalating? As I research and write this the

fight is just gearing up but it promises to get much

nastier over time. Today we're going to learn about the conflict between these

companies as well as get a deeper understanding of the way that

App Services and Apple make money because really that's what this all boils down to

the method that companies follow to make money and how they can make more money and keep more of the money they make.

So, you know, spoiler alert, that's really what this is all about when you get down to it.

But first, some background.

Now, I've done an episode about Fort Knight,

that published back in February of 2019,

so I'm not going to go over the entire history of Fortnite but let's do a quick

rundown of Epic Games so we understand where they're coming from.

Way back in 1991 a guy named Tim Sweeney was programming video games and saving them

on to floppy disks and then sending those disks out over the mail.

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