Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, November 10th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Apple and Alphabet suffer setbacks in court. More hardware moves in the great metaverse

realignment of the tech landscape. Unity buys Weta Digital, no word on if

Andy Circus is part of that package, and Twitter Blue is finally live. A quick reminder of what that actually is. Here's what you

miss today in the world of tech.

It's not been a great day for big tech in the courts. First up, the judge in the

Epic versus Apple trial says Apple must comply with an order letting developers link to

external payment options denying Apple's stay request.

Quoting the verge. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued her order after a Tuesday hearing concerning the blockbuster

antitrust lawsuit which Fortnite publisher Epic Games filed in 2020 and which went to trial

this year.

During the hearing, Apple said it needed more time to rewrite its anti-steering policies, rules

that bar app developers from linking to payment methods besides the iOS App Store.

This will be the first time Apple has ever allowed live links in an app for digital

content. It's going to take months to figure out the engineering, economic, business, and other issues, said

Apple attorney Mark Perry. it is exceedingly complicated.

There have to be guardrails and guidelines to protect children,

to protect developers, to protect consumers, to protect Apple.

And they have to be written into guidelines that can be explained and enforced and applied end quote.

Apple has mostly praised the ruling in Epic versus Apple, where Judge Gonzales-Rogers concluded

that Apple hadn't violated antitrust law by kicking Fort Knight off the App Store

and said the company didn't have to reinstate EPIC's developer account

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