Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “I guess I SHOULD hate Apple.”.
This is my impression of you clicking on this video. “. Oh TechLinked., Let’s see what happened in the tech world. Today.” Apple has become the first American company to hit a $ 2 trillion market value. Wow.
It feels like it’s only been two years since they hit 1 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., [ Staff ]. 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. [ Staff, ] And 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 said 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 Games sucks too. Okay, They all suck., But if Apple ends up lowering its 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 promise please.. All new Oculus VR headsets going forward will require a Facebook account to operate. [ Staff, ] Son of a., 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, Luckey, said this. Exact thing would not happen when Facebook purchased Oculus back in 2014., But this is 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 wan na sit in that crazy machine for an hour. Do you So shut up and enter your damn? Email and password. And TikTok 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 [ Staff, ], Yeah, Oracle’s, huge., Yeah, they’re, Big.
They’ve now put in their own bid to acquire the company’s US operations.. Microsoft was previously the front runner, but President Trump himself has said: Oracle would be “ A great company ,”. I can’t do 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. [ Staff, ] Free speech.
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Death. Maybe pick up one of those new Ryzen-powered MateBooks 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 playtime 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 are you really playing a little bit of Flight Simulator and be like “ Nah” [ Staff ]? I think this part is flight simulator, it’s all these airport simulator., 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 3090 retailing for around 2,000 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 1,300., 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. [ Staff ] Stop 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 back on Friday for more tech news, because you just can’t get enough.
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