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this is my impression of you clicking on this video oh tech link let's see what

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happened in the tech world today

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apple has become the first american company to hit a two trillion dollar

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market value wow it feels like it's only been two years since they hit one

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trillion and that's because that's correct apple is reaching this milestone

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while embroiled in a legal battle with epic games who is attempting to get

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cupertino to capitulate on the 30 cut it

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takes from all transactions on the iOS app store that so-called apple tax has

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been a huge driver for apple's growth particularly because the amount of

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income it generates dwarfs the amount of resources it takes to run the app store

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it made 260 billion from it in 2019 a

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bit of an own goal at this point yeah apple says they just want epic to abide

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by the app store guidelines and will not make an exception for fortnite even

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though they've shown that they can and will make exceptions for the likes of

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amazon who only pays a 15 cut on prime video transactions on netflix and yeah

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them too apple continues to weather accusations of antitrust with a recently

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filed patent revealing the company is working on a cloud gaming service which

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explains why apple blocked stadia and project xcloud from the app store and

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the fight is only set to get more intense as epic has reportedly approached other companies including

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spotify and sonos about joining a coalition to pressure apple to alter its

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cut with their combined bargaining power and yeah

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epic game sucks too okay they all suck but if apple ends up lowering his app

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store cut i might finally be able to self-publish my app that rewards you

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with double the bitcoin that you put in initially it works

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i i promise please all new oculus vr

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headsets going forward will require a facebook account to operate

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according to an announcement made by the social giant yesterday naturally people

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are kind of upset about this especially because facebook doesn't really try to

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hide the fact that it tracks things like what games you play and how long you

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play them and immediately links that to the copious amounts of data it's already

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gathered about you on facebook proper it also sucks because oculus founder and

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flip-flop enthusiast palmer lucky said this exact thing would not happen when

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facebook purchased oculus back in 2014 but this announcement was inevitable

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when you consider the steps that facebook has slowly taken towards this end first absorbing oculus into its own

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technology group and then requiring a facebook account for social features but

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facebook isn't all bad okay their ai group just enabled mris to be taken in

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minutes instead of hours you don't want to sit in that crazy machine for an hour

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do you so shut up and enter your damn email and

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password and tick tock has published a website with various arguments about why

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they're not a national security threat and shouldn't be banned but their pleas

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are apparently falling on deaf ears because oracle do you know who oracle is

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yeah oracle's huge yeah they're big

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they've now put in their own bid to acquire the company's u.s operations

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microsoft is previously the front-runner but president trump himself has said

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oracle would be a great company i can't duke trump to

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take over which probably has nothing to do with the fact that oracle's chairman

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held a big trump fundraiser earlier this year but whether you love or hate trump as

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tim wu writes in the new york times the ban might be for the best since china

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blocks all major social platforms from the west anyway i don't understand how

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they do it twitter is such a good time very fun healthy discussions happening

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free speech now it's time for quick bits brought to you by the massdrop pc37x gaming headset

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get them they're really hot

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in all this tick-tock nonsense the u.s forgot about a loophole in their

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sanctions against huawei no that loophole has now been closed

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meaning no company worldwide is allowed to sell semiconductors made using

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american software or equipment if huawei was involved at any stage of the process

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analysts say this latest move could lead to the company's quote-unquote death

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maybe pick up one of those new ryzen-powered mate books as a historical

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artifact don't turn it on though gamers were jazzed this week about the launch

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of microsoft's latest flight simulator for some reason but weren't so jazzed to

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discover that after a small initial install size the game has to download

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the rest of its 90 to 150 gigs of data

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before you can play and the time it takes to download it counts as play time

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on steam if it takes longer than two hours you won't be able to get a refund

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and people are upset about this so they're asking steam to extend the

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refund window but like are you really playing a little bit of flight simulator

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and being like nah i i think this part is flight simulator

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it's all these airports it's the waiting that's the most

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important part NVIDIA has made its GeForce now game streaming service

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available on chromebooks providing an alternative to google stadia for budget

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gamers and taking away one of the few advantages to actually paying for stadia

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i can't think of what the other ones are right now i'll come back to it some to

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be perfectly honest questionable leaks are pointing to the rtx 39e retailing

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for around 2000 us dollars but this has

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to be some kind of weird marketing campaign where they bait you with this and then reveal that it's actually only

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thirteen hundred dollars oh what a steal

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for that price does it double as a folding phone

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maybe in 2022 and blackberry just will

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not die tcl will stop licensing the brand this month but it's been picked up

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by texas based startup onward mobility

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which will produce a physical keyboard-equipped 5g handset in 2021

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here's hoping blackberry will continue existing in a strange undead state well

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into the next century

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TechLinked on the other hand knows when to quit so this episode is over come

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back on friday for more tech news because you just can't get enough can

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you