Thu. 03/07 – The Epic/Apple Fight Gets Gnarly

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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On the first day of the DMA regime, the whole battle between Apple and Epic Games has gotten hella weird. Rumors of the US government going after TikTok again are swirling, again. What if we see a foldable Macbook before a foldable iPhone? And why the job of AI Prompt Engineer might be made redundant by… AI. Sponsors: Kolide.com/ride Links: Apple kills Epic’s iOS game store plans over App Store criticism (The Verge) Apple Set to Be Quizzed by EU Over ‘Fortnite’ Maker Shutout (Bloomberg) Big Tech howled over E.U. antitrust law. The White House declined a rescue. (The Washington Post) W.H. works with Hill to ban TikTok (Punchbowl News) Kuo: Apple actively working on 20.3-inch foldable MacBook (9to5Mac) AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering (IEEE Spectrum) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, March 7th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.0	Today, on the first day of the DMA regime, the whole battle between Apple and Epic Games has gotten hell of weird.
0:15.4	Rumors of the U.S. government going after Tik-Tok again are swirling again. What if we see a foldable Macbook before a foldable iPhone and why the job of AI prompt engineer might
0:26.1	be made redundant by AI.
0:29.2	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Okay, the Digital Markets Act, we've been talking about it all week, goes into effect today.
0:40.2	There were several threads that went into bringing that law to life, but one of those threads was the whole Epic Games versus Apple Fight over Fortnight and the App Store.
0:49.0	So, seems like the DMA would be a big win for Epic, right?
0:53.0	Fortnight on your iPhone via some sort of Epic Games App Store, except
0:57.2	yesterday, Epic says Apple removed its iOS developer account thereby halting its app store plans dead in their tracks.
1:05.5	They also shared a letter from Apple lawyers calling Epic quote, verifiably untrustworthy.
1:12.1	Quoting the verge.
1:13.0	Please be advised that Apple has effective immediately
1:16.0	terminated the developer program membership of Epic Games Sweden A.B.
1:20.0	The letter which is dated March 2nd states,
1:22.0	it cites Apple's quote
1:23.9	contractual right to terminate its developer program license agreement with the
1:27.6	company at Apple's sole discretion. The exchange came in the wake of
1:32.3	Apple announcing plans to allow third-party
1:34.2	App stores on iOS in the EU as a result of the Block's New Digital Markets Act
1:38.2	regulation which goes into effect today.
1:41.5	Epic quickly announced plans to launch a game store on iOS as a result of the changes and relaunch
1:47.2	Fortnite on the platform following its removal in 2020.
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