you came back i never thought i'd see you again get it together james
apple mostly won its big legal fight with epic games over the iOS app store
but the judge did order apple to allow app developers to include buttons or
links to third-party payment options by december 9th
it's we're not there yet apple requested a stay on that order but yesterday it
was denied by judge Yvonne gonzalez rogers known in the biz as gonzo because
she does not care about your feelings apple is going to appeal this decision
because lawyers need to eat but also because they claim it's going to take
months to figure out how to roll out the change
i mean i believe it would take apple months there apparently have to be guardrails and guidelines to protect
children developers consumers and apple wait
what are we talking about links a link to a website and an app apple you don't
have to make them you just have to let the developers add them something apple
has already done for reader apps like netflix but who knows apple is
apparently looking into cryptocurrency so maybe their engineers are already
confused about why something that is so decentralized is so popular it's like
people don't want giant companies controlling what they're allowed to do
so weird how do they decide how to act apple did make sort of a good guy move
this week though it announced an upcoming software update that would
allow third party repair shops to replace the iphone 13 screen without
breaking face id ifixit pointed out last week that the only way to do this
currently is to remove a tiny microcontroller from the old screen and
solder it on the new screen which is incredibly difficult and requires
special equipment but that's because iphones are special
why didn't you get this meanwhile at the genius bar
they had a simple software tool that will keep face id working no problem
apple hasn't said when the update will arrive but if you don't want to wait you
can just sign your small business up for the apple business essentials subscription which will give you access
to signature apple brand it management and on-site repairs so exciting a
real-life apple genius coming to my office what do i offer them wine
a family heirloom a kiss google cares about small businesses too which is why
they're warning them about a potential legislation that could hurt those small
businesses bottom line business owners have gotten emails from google alerting
them to the dangers of the of of the ending platform monopolies act
a proposed bill that would ban google and other platforms from favoring their
own services such a change could make it harder to find your business online
costing you time and money according to google sure it seems desperate but big
tech companies are under more of a threat from proposed regulation than ever like the filter bubble transparency
act which would force companies like facebook to provide users with an option
to opt out of algorithmic content feeds i mean it's gotta be stronger than that
imo google themselves just got slapped with a 2.4 billion euro antitrust fine
over favoring google shopping results in search although they may still appeal
that but until then they're appealing a different kind of appealing to small
businesses fear of being buried on page two of the search results or if you're
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valve has announced the launch of its highly anticipated steam deck gaming
handheld has been delayed two months to february 2022 i really wanted one for
christmas dude of course the global supply chain issues currently ravaging
the earth like a plague a pestilence
the fifth horseman chip shortage in their blog post valve said they're
sorry which is kind of like apologizing for being late to a meeting because you
were attacked by a team of super villains it's not your fault all the
time you know understandable just make the steam deck good because i need a
good portable console to emulate n64 games on gotham
youtube is currently rolling out a change that removes the publicly visible
dislike counter from all youtube videos including this one in the future the
company says their research showed that this measure reduces the likelihood
users will target a video's dislike button to drive up the account or drive
down the drive up the dislock which will
hopefully ensure no creator ever has to endure public criticism ever again also
creators can still see their own videos dislike counts in the youtube studio
quantifying hate will soon be a privilege you guys better dislike this
video while you can still feel like you're part of something rude microsoft
has announced the surface laptop se designed specifically for schools and
students who will be the only entities actually allowed to buy one it starts at
a cool 250 bucks has some decent i o and honestly reminds us of those old plastic
macbooks the surface laptop se will be running Windows 11 se which is optimized
for low end hardware is easy easy to set up and manage and has the microsoft
store disabled and it also limits Windows snapping to only two apps at
once think of it this way kids it's like holding two phones at once huh
why why would you want three that's silly
one tick one talk reports have been flooding in for weeks now that the
oneplus nord 2 is exploding causing damage to clothing and the people
wearing their clothing holding the phones oneplus says the incidents are
isolated cases but they're collecting details to investigate further because
you wouldn't want to initiate a recall until you're super sure it's necessary
better let a couple more pop off first
you wouldn't though i would and nasa has announced it's
delaying its moon landing mission from 2024 to 2025
not because of any technical reason but because blue origin the rocket company
owned by jeff bezos sued nasa for giving a contract to spacex instead of
themselves uh and the ensuing litigation took up seven months of nasa's time
thanks thanks thanks
i'm going to make a rocket company so i can advance humanity wait a second i'm going to stifle humanity instead
while blue origin has lost the suit they did succeed in annoying everyone
involved but any publicity is good publicity especially in space
where none of us are going now thank you this episode is blasted off so come back
on friday for more tech news starring someone else