Apple Broke the Law, I Was Deepfaked, and Even the Beach Has Ads

Epic Games got a huge win against Apple, what it means for the App Store and Tim Cook’s leadership, Meta's new Llama 4 AI chat app for iOS, Take It Down Act tries to tackle deepfakes, and Amazon refurb iPhones may be a scam.

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Links from the show

• A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store | The Verge
• Tim Sweeny’s Victory Lap
• Epic win: Apple forced to give developers (almost) free reign to link out and avoid paying Apple's 30% cut - 9to5Mac
• Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers - Practicalities of Modern Patent Litigation Conference Practicalities of Modern Patent Litigation Conference
• Daring Fireball: Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers Rules, in Excoriating Decision, That Apple Violated Her 2021 Court Order Regarding App Store Anti-Steering Provisions
• ChatGPT is getting better for shopping | The Verge
• OpenAI says its GPT-4o update could be ‘uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress’ | The Verge
• Meta launches standalone AI chat app based on Llama 4 for iPhone and iPad - 9to5Mac
• Mark Zuckerberg is planning a premium tier and ads for Meta’s AI app | The Verge
• ‎Snapshot on Apple
• Amazon Considered Displaying Tariff Charges on Its Ultracheap ‘Haul’ Site - WSJ
• Congress passes Take It Down Act to fight deepfake nudes, revenge porn - The Washington Post
• Raycast for iOS
• Why the lettering on Pope Francis's tomb looks so bad - Fast Company
• Accessibility - Apple

• (00:00) - Intro
• (03:16) - Apple Broke the Law
• (05:44) - Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
• (09:04) - Epic v Apple Trial
• (13:38) - Cook Chose Poorly
• (15:45) - Apple VP LIED Under Oath
• (20:26) - Phil Schiller Voice of Reason
• (31:27) - What It Means for Apple
• (37:31) - ChatGPT Shopping
• (40:08) - Meta’s AI App
• (41:50) - Even the Beach Has Ads
• (44:46) - Apple Snapshot
• (47:56) - Amazon Tariff Pricing
• (50:46) - I Was Deepfaked
• (58:31) - Raycast iPhone App
• (01:00:00) - The Pope's Kerning
• (01:02:07) - Stephen Bought a Thing...
• (01:05:04) - Amazon Refurb Scam
• (01:08:29) - Apple Accessibility is Really Good

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