Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, June 27th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Checking in with the FTC versus Microsoft case.

Checking in with the effort to recover funds from FTX. FC And reviews of the Pixel Fold include one reviewer's unit dying after a mere few days.

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.

Hey, did you know that whole FTC versus Microsoft hearing about whether or not the

Activision acquisition can actually go forward is going on right now? How's that going?

Well, it apparently uncovered a 2019 email by

Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty encouraging Microsoft to buy content to quote

spend Sony out of business, end quote.

Microsoft argues the company didn't actually pursue that as a strategy, but quoting the

Verge, we Microsoft are in a very unique position to be able to go spend Sony out of business, said

Booty in a December 2019 email referencing spending 2 billion or 3 billion dollars in 2020

to avoid competitors getting ahead in content at a later date.

Quote, it is practically impossible for anyone to start a new video streaming service at scale at this point,

said Booty, referencing competitors like Google, Amazon and

Sony. Booty described content as a moat and that only Sony could really compete

with Xbox Game Pass. In games, Google is three to four years away from being able to have a studio up and running.

Amazon has shown no ability to execute on game content.

Content is the one moat that we have in terms of a catalog that runs on current devices and capability to create new.

Sony is really the only other player who could compete with Game Pass and we have a

two-year and ten million subs lead end quote.

Microsoft argues the email is old and that it never pursued such a strategy anyway.

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