Thu. 01/13 – China To Do NFT’s, Minus The Blockchain

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🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Apple indeed is removing Wordle clones, but PUBG sues them for NOT removing what they allege are clones of their game. Does Google Analytics run afoul of GDPR? China is going to do NFTs, NOT on the blockchain. And will the new Nuro bot bring me my burrito? Sponsors: RealVision.com/techmeme DeVry.edu/engineering Links: Apple Removes Wordle Apps Fueled by Confused Users (Bloomberg) Game maker says Apple, Google selling rip-offs in new lawsuit (Reuters) In bad news for US cloud services, Austrian website’s use of Google Analytics found to breach GDPR (TechCrunch) Canalys: Worldwide PC shipments soared in 2021 to 341 million units (TechCrunch) Instagram, still benefiting from TikTok’s ban in India, again became the top app by downloads in Q4 (TechCrunch) China to create own NFT industry based on state-backed blockchain infrastructure, main developer says (South China Morning Post) Nuro’s newest autonomous delivery bot is designed for the masses (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, January 13th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.2	Today Apple is indeed removing Wordle clones, but PubG sues them for not removing what they allege
0:15.6	are clones of their game.
0:17.5	Does Google Analytics run afoul of GDPR?
0:20.5	China is going to do NFTs but not on the blockchain and will the new
0:24.9	neurobot bring me my burrito. Here's what you miss today in the world of
0:28.7	tech.
0:30.7	Apple has confirmed it removed several Wertle clones from the App Store, quoting Bloomberg.
0:39.0	As of Wednesday, the only remaining product on the App store with that title appeared to be
0:44.3	Wirtle exclamation point a time-based game created by Stephen Kravada more than five
0:50.8	years ago Apple confirmed the move to Bloomberg.
0:53.7	Wertel Games began to take off in the App Store in recent weeks, buoyed by a specific version
0:58.6	that's caught on with entertainers. Created in October by former Reddit software engineer Josh Wardle, it's available to play once a day on his website and doesn't have an app for mobile users.
1:09.0	But like named games, have soared on the app store.
1:13.0	Downloads of Kravada's wordle,
1:15.0	exclamation point, rose nearly to 40,000
1:18.2	in the week of January 1st, up 850%
1:20.8	from the week before,
1:22.0	according to the mobile data and analytics firm
1:24.3	App Annie. It reached the top 10 among all word games in seven countries and was
1:28.8	number one among word games in Ireland as of January 8th. Wordol Exclamation. word the fact that the Dev that created a similarly named game five years ago is benefiting sort of like
1:46.6	how micro cap stocks sometimes rise because they accidentally have a similar ticker
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