this is my impression of you clicking on this video oh tech link let's see what
happened in the tech world today
apple has become the first american company to hit a two trillion dollar
market value wow it feels like it's only been two years since they hit one
trillion and that's because that's correct apple is reaching this milestone
while embroiled in a legal battle with epic games who is attempting to get
cupertino to capitulate on the 30 cut it
takes from all transactions on the iOS app store that so-called apple tax has
been a huge driver for apple's growth particularly because the amount of
income it generates dwarfs the amount of resources it takes to run the app store
it made 260 billion from it in 2019 a
bit of an own goal at this point yeah apple says they just want epic to abide
by the app store guidelines and will not make an exception for fortnite even
though they've shown that they can and will make exceptions for the likes of
amazon who only pays a 15 cut on prime video transactions on netflix and yeah
them too apple continues to weather accusations of antitrust with a recently
filed patent revealing the company is working on a cloud gaming service which
explains why apple blocked stadia and project xcloud from the app store and
the fight is only set to get more intense as epic has reportedly approached other companies including
spotify and sonos about joining a coalition to pressure apple to alter its
cut with their combined bargaining power and yeah
epic game sucks too okay they all suck but if apple ends up lowering his app
store cut i might finally be able to self-publish my app that rewards you
with double the bitcoin that you put in initially it works
i i promise please all new oculus vr
headsets going forward will require a facebook account to operate
according to an announcement made by the social giant yesterday naturally people
are kind of upset about this especially because facebook doesn't really try to
hide the fact that it tracks things like what games you play and how long you
play them and immediately links that to the copious amounts of data it's already
gathered about you on facebook proper it also sucks because oculus founder and
flip-flop enthusiast palmer lucky said this exact thing would not happen when
facebook purchased oculus back in 2014 but this announcement was inevitable
when you consider the steps that facebook has slowly taken towards this end first absorbing oculus into its own
technology group and then requiring a facebook account for social features but
facebook isn't all bad okay their ai group just enabled mris to be taken in
minutes instead of hours you don't want to sit in that crazy machine for an hour
do you so shut up and enter your damn email and
password and tick tock has published a website with various arguments about why
they're not a national security threat and shouldn't be banned but their pleas
are apparently falling on deaf ears because oracle do you know who oracle is
yeah oracle's huge yeah they're big
they've now put in their own bid to acquire the company's u.s operations
microsoft is previously the front-runner but president trump himself has said
oracle would be a great company i can't duke trump to
take over which probably has nothing to do with the fact that oracle's chairman
held a big trump fundraiser earlier this year but whether you love or hate trump as
tim wu writes in the new york times the ban might be for the best since china
blocks all major social platforms from the west anyway i don't understand how
they do it twitter is such a good time very fun healthy discussions happening
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in all this tick-tock nonsense the u.s forgot about a loophole in their
sanctions against huawei no that loophole has now been closed
meaning no company worldwide is allowed to sell semiconductors made using
american software or equipment if huawei was involved at any stage of the process
analysts say this latest move could lead to the company's quote-unquote death
maybe pick up one of those new ryzen-powered mate books as a historical
artifact don't turn it on though gamers were jazzed this week about the launch
of microsoft's latest flight simulator for some reason but weren't so jazzed to
discover that after a small initial install size the game has to download
the rest of its 90 to 150 gigs of data
before you can play and the time it takes to download it counts as play time
on steam if it takes longer than two hours you won't be able to get a refund
and people are upset about this so they're asking steam to extend the
refund window but like are you really playing a little bit of flight simulator
and being like nah i i think this part is flight simulator
it's all these airports it's the waiting that's the most
important part NVIDIA has made its GeForce now game streaming service
available on chromebooks providing an alternative to google stadia for budget
gamers and taking away one of the few advantages to actually paying for stadia
i can't think of what the other ones are right now i'll come back to it some to
be perfectly honest questionable leaks are pointing to the rtx 39e retailing
for around 2000 us dollars but this has
to be some kind of weird marketing campaign where they bait you with this and then reveal that it's actually only
thirteen hundred dollars oh what a steal
for that price does it double as a folding phone
maybe in 2022 and blackberry just will
not die tcl will stop licensing the brand this month but it's been picked up
by texas based startup onward mobility
which will produce a physical keyboard-equipped 5g handset in 2021
here's hoping blackberry will continue existing in a strange undead state well
into the next century
TechLinked on the other hand knows when to quit so this episode is over come
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