The tech trials keep coming

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of anti-steering provisions: 02:57 - The Verge's David Pierce and Makena Kelly discuss Epic v. Google, a trial about the future of app stores. The Epic v. Google trial may come down to simple v. complicated Epic v. Google: a battle over Fortnite fees goes to court 28:49 - Liz Lopatto joins the show to detail her experience covering the Sam Bankman-Fried trial from start to finish. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is guilty of fraud Sam Bankman-Fried gambled on a trial and his parents lost 58:27 - Richard Lawler helps answer this week's Vergecast Hotline question. Disney’s new vision for ESPN might include part ownership by the NBA, NFL Disney finally revealed how many billions ESPN pulls in. Email us at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Virgecast, the flagship podcast of Anti-Steering Provisions.
0:07.0	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am currently getting ready to travel.
0:11.6	It's 6.47 PM on Monday night. I have a flight Tuesday morning.
0:16.4	We're recording all of this a little bit early as a result. I'm going to San Francisco and what that means is I'm about to spend
0:22.0	five or so hours on a plane.
0:25.0	So I'm doing, of course, what you always have to do, which is bring 45 different devices to use on the plane.
0:32.0	I have an iPad, I have a switch, I have my laptop, I have my phone,
0:36.8	I have another iPad that I'm just now realizing I don't need to bring. I have a Kindle, did I mention my Kindle?
0:42.2	All of that is full of content. I'm
0:44.4	downloading stuff. I'm charging everything. I have Super Mario Wonder to play on the plane, which is the only thing I'm going to do for the whole
0:51.1	flight, and I know that already, and yet I'm doing all of this other work
0:54.0	I also have to charge all my gadgets I have to make sure I have all of the cables that I need
0:58.5	which is a lot easier than it used to be but there's always still one stray lightning cable or micro USB thing I have to bring.
1:06.2	It's just a lot and it turns out that whenever I travel half the stuff in my bag is gadgets and the other half is just like one pair of jeans no matter how long I'm traveling for.
1:15.5	Listen, this is not the life anyone should live, but it's the one I've signed up for.
1:20.0	So here we go. Anyway, we have an awesome show coming up for you today. We are going to talk almost entirely about trials because like we've been talking about on this show all fall, we're in the midst of a couple of really interesting, really important,
1:34.0	potentially really consequential things happening in court around the tech industry.
1:38.8	Today we're going to talk about two in particular.
1:41.2	Epic v. Google, the latest antitrust trial against Google, not to be confused with the other
1:46.4	antitrust trial that's happening against Google. And then we're going to talk about SBF. The trial of Sam
1:52.1	Bancman-F freed is finally over. He was convicted and we're going to talk about how we got there and what it means going forward.
1:59.0	All that is coming up in just a sec, but first I have to find the Charger for my Kindle first I have to find the charger for my Kindle because I have two
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