Apple and gogle are the only gatekeepers of this new internet, using data and apt developers innovations against them in order to bank roll the construction of massive tollways on the formerly free information highway. Lawmakers around the world, advocates of all stripes, have coalesced around this 30 %. The ruling was a hundred and eight, five pages but in some epic didn't get what it wanted. Apple will be forced to let people like you or me pay for things in processos other than apples. Epic games plans to file an appeal in its case against apple over inapt purchasing power.
A California judge weighed in on whether Apple has a monopoly. NPR’s Bobby Allyn unpacks the ruling. Sen. Amy Klobuchar explains why she wants the government to get serious about regulating Big Tech.
Today’s show was produced by Will Reid with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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