Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple and Google are in TROUBLE”.
Man there’s nothing that gets me more revved up for the weekend than some good old-fashioned lawsuits. Let’S go, let’s litigate litigation! No breathing epic games has executed an unprecedented campaign against apple and google for the 30 cut those guys take of revenue from their respective app stores. First, epic set the bait with a direct payment option for the fortnite v. Bucks that skipped the apple tax apple then responded by removing fortnite from the app store and google followed suit. But epic was ready.
They released an in-game commercial, parodying, apple’s infamous 1984 ad, but framing apple as the bad guy and fired off lawsuits at apple and google. That had clearly been prepared months before the lawsuits hinge on the anti-competitive nature of that 30 cut taken by google and apple, but which apple also takes from all in-app transactions. Silly, that’s a monopoly baby. Epic also alleges that google blocked a deal with oneplus, which would have seen a special fortnight launcher pre-loaded on the company’s phones.
Alongside the lawsuits, epic has gone into full-on pr battle mode, telling its players that, if apple and google don’t change their ways, you guys will miss the next season of fortnite. This is crazy. You definitely want to play as like ant-man or something. Don’T you definitely don’t you now you i don’t get that, but now, even if we agree with epic’s ultimate goal here, we have to acknowledge that epics know saint themselves: they’re, basically recruiting kids to attack apple with hashtags and wait a second. What about the consoles, which all charge a 30 platform tax, but at the very least we can thank epic for providing us with some summer entertainment. It’S a billionaire rumble wan na see blood going about royale with tim cook, while all that was happening. Intel was busy talking about technology improvements in their processors as part of an architecture, day 2020, which sounds like a school event that cool kids would not attend.
According to intel, their new transistor called 10 nanometers superfin is the largest single intranode advancement in the company’s history. I should hope so and should lead to improvements in 10 nanometer processor performance that might make it easier to wait until 2020 for their seven nanometer products. Whoa 2022 read that wrong. That makes a difference. Those seven nanometer products, zlp or low power graphics, will come embedded in tiger lake processors when they launch this fall, while z hpg, which sounds like a venereal disease or high power gaming, will arrive with raytrade support in the company’s first external graphics cards in 2021. That’S sooner than later, all in all, the event might have been enough to restore a bit of confidence that intel may just come back from the absolute thrashing they’ve been enduring the past couple of years.
Hp got so excited about intel’s news that they accidentally leaked a tiger leak powered laptop on their site, but then they sucked it back in just as fast. I wish i could do that. Hi mark and speaking of leaks, a spec table, courtesy of memory maker micron, has revealed that nvidia’s upcoming ampere graphics cards will be led by the rtx 3090..
The leak indicates. The card will have 12 gigabytes of gddr6 x memory, with each module supporting up to 21 gigabits per second of bandwidth for a total memory, bandwidth of one terabyte per second. I can’t go that fast. Will they really break that barrier of one terabyte per second wow wow? We didn’t get an rtx 2090 in the past generation, but we did have a titan rtx.
So it remains to be seen whether the rtx 3090 is at the actual top of the stack or whether nvidia will add another ridiculously overpowered and overpriced model that basically no one should buy. I take it back. Apple, google and epic can buy them and have sword fights with them. Now it’s time for the quick bits brought to you by vessie and their new weekend shoe if you’re the weeknd, the artist you can wear this shoe or if it’s weekend the time, wow, they’re, comfortable, they’re light and, most importantly, waterproof.
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I know i swear. I saw some quick bits around here. Apple is reportedly about to launch an amazon prime style bundle of subscription services called apple one anyway. It’S gon na tie together apple music, tv plus news plus arcade icloud, and whatever else they have going on, i don’t know once you sign up the service will grant you access to the inner sanctum. I almost said scrotum of apple’s ufo-shaped campus, where you can participate in sacred collective rituals and buy more apple products and maybe amalgamate into one super apple megazord. A california judge has ruled that amazon can be liable for defects in third-party products sold on its marketplace. After a woman endured third degree burns from a defective laptop battery, amazon is supposed to be protected from liability in cases like this by section 230 or 230.
For you fast talkers of the communications decency act, but at the same time jeff can afford it. Google will stop responding to data requests from the government of hong kong. After a new law was passed requiring said government to pass such data onto china. Google is actually following tick tock here, which did the same thing back in july, but tick tock is owned by bite, dance, a chinese company, the heck’s going on here. I think it’s time to do the detective dance. What does that look like i’m not doing that? Just because you write, it doesn’t mean i’m okay, fine.
I have two magnifying glasses speed tests from the beta for spacex’s starlink satellite internet service are showing less than impressive speeds, with pings over 30 milliseconds and download speeds ranging from 11 to 60 megabits per second. But that might be plenty for rural customers who are still using freaking dial up or other even crappier satellite things plus your internet will be coming from space. Think about that well and for your daily wtf moment, here’s a phone case being developed by researchers in seoul korea that has robotic legs. It can use to wiggle its way onto a wireless charger.
Why? And why do i want it yeah? Whatever this episode is gon na end, i’m going home to my new place on friday, yeah i’m moving. You saw that on instagram come back on monday for more tech news. When i’m unpacked, you know, i almost said scrotum .