Tue. 08/18 – Apple Goes Nuclear Against Epic Games
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🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, August 18th, 2020. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Brian McCullough today. |
| 0:09.3 | Apple has chosen the tactical nuclear option in its battle with Epic Games, but Epic might rally |
| 0:15.9 | a rebel alliance. |
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| 0:24.5 | all along, and algorithms can be good for humanity. |
| 0:28.5 | Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. Remember last week when tech. |
| 0:40.0 | Remember last week when Grouber was talking about how Apple had not yet gone nuclear on Epic Games, even though it could at any time. |
| 0:43.4 | Yeah, well, this is pretty close to the nuclear option. |
| 0:47.8 | Epic Games says Apple has informed it |
| 0:49.7 | that all of Epic's iOS and Mac developer accounts will be terminated on August 28th. |
| 0:56.6 | So not just Fortnite. |
| 0:58.6 | Everything EPIC does could potentially be locked out of the App Store, at least in the sense of supporting or adding |
| 1:05.2 | new stuff. |
| 1:06.8 | EPIC has asked a court to issue a restraining order to prevent this from happening, quoting |
| 1:11.6 | The Verge. Apple will terminate Epic's inclusion in the Apple to prevent this from happening, quoting the verge. |
| 1:12.8 | Apple will terminate EPIC's inclusion in the Apple developer program, |
| 1:16.1 | a membership that's necessary to distribute apps on iOS devices |
| 1:20.0 | or use Apple developer tools if the company does not quote cure your breaches to the agreement within two weeks |
| 1:26.8 | according to a letter from Apple that was shared by EPIC. |
| 1:29.7 | EPIC won't be able to notarize Mac apps either a process that could make |
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