Welcome to the Tech Name Ride Home for Wednesday, September 13th,

2023, I'm Brian McCullough today.

Unity has upset game developers across the world with new pricing changes.

France has ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12 over radiation concerns.

Lots of extra drips and drabs from yesterday's iPhone event and Stability AI gets into the generative

music generation game.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Game developer Platform Unity has announced fees based on a game's

installations and a given developer's plan tier slated to go into effect January 1st

2024 joining Unreal slated to go into effect January 1st, 2024,

joining Unreal Engine, which has similar fees.

This has the whole game Dev World up in arms, however.

Quoting Windows Central.

Unity is a popular game and app development platform, often touted for its cross-platform

friendliness and accessibility for smaller teams.

Unity has been at the forefront of independent development for some time, although a string of unpopular changes in the past couple of years have dramatically battered its image.

The changes kicked off in line with its public stock exchange listing a couple of years back,

generally speaking as it seeks to compete with Unreal Engine and others in an increasingly

competitive and volatile market. Volatile indeed, as these recent changes to Unity's revenue models threatened to upend entire businesses and plunge projects into turmoil before they've even gotten off the ground.

Unity's new model will see developers pay a monthly fee per installation scaling up at

certain thresholds. The per install fees don't seem to account for game usage time and there's

no information on whether these metrics will factor in

pirated copies as well. The per installation fee also threatens charity services

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