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Speaker 1: Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Jothan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio

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Speaker 1: and I love all things tech. And before we get started,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to say I hope that all of you

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Speaker 1: are all safe and well and that your loved ones

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Speaker 1: Hurricane Ida cause enormous damage along the coast of Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: Large parts of that region are without power. There are

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Speaker 1: emergency situations all over there. If any of y'all are

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Speaker 1: yourselves and of each other. And really that goes out

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Speaker 1: to everyone. A little kindness goes a long way. But yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm definitely thinking of all of you out there,

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Speaker 1: hoping that you're staying safe. All right, let's get to

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Speaker 1: the tech news for Tuesday, August thirty one, twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Here in America, there's a brewing battle between the US

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Speaker 1: government and companies like Apple and Google over whether or

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Speaker 1: not requiring app developers to use the Apple and Google

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Speaker 1: in app purchasing systems for all in app purchases is

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Speaker 1: anti competitive. Now, this gets a little muddled, so we're

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Speaker 1: going to use an example to kind of clear things up.

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Speaker 1: So let's say that you are a developer, an app developer,

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Speaker 1: and you create a SimCity like game, and in that game,

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Speaker 1: And in this game, maybe you've built some in app purchases,

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Speaker 1: and that way players can pay to access say certain

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Speaker 1: be able to speed up construction or otherwise take you know,

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Speaker 1: shortcuts in the game, which without these shortcuts would take

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Speaker 1: a really long time to play out. Well, right now,

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Speaker 1: both Google and Apple take a cut that's anywhere between

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Speaker 1: that is if it's a smaller developer, is if they

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Speaker 1: are you know, considered to be a larger developer, and

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Speaker 1: you have no other option but to go that route, Like,

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Speaker 1: you have to play by those rules because both Apple

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Speaker 1: real stuff out in the real world. So for example,

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Speaker 1: let's say you run a taco restaurant and you develop

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Speaker 1: an app so people can order tacos to pick up

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Speaker 1: at your store. They just use the app, they say

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Speaker 1: your finest tacos. I don't know why you've been holding

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Speaker 1: United States, government offices and congress people are beginning to

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Speaker 1: things have taken a more drastic turn. The South Korean

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Speaker 1: So now companies like Epic Games, which makes the game Fortnite,

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Speaker 1: According to CNBC, the Apple App Store grows more than

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Speaker 1: sixty four billion dollars in twenty twenty, a princely some now.

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Speaker 1: Keep in mind, that's what the app store brought in.

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Speaker 1: Not all of that money actually is going to Apple.

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Speaker 1: more than a decade ago, Apple was in a long,

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Speaker 1: ugly legal battle with the telecommunications company Nokia, the Finnish company.

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Speaker 1: Apple has grown in popularity year over year. Eventually, Microsoft

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Speaker 1: systems might not be a great fit for that, and

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Speaker 1: it sounds like this rollout will be pretty ratual in

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Speaker 1: that some systems, like perhaps the oldest ones that can

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Speaker 1: still support Windows eleven, will not get the update until

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Speaker 1: possibly sometime in the middle of next year. Of course,

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Speaker 1: that's not necessarily a bad thing. I often remind myself

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Speaker 1: that it's typically wise to wait a little bit before

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Speaker 1: jumping on a new operating system or even a new

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Speaker 1: piece of hardware, because invariably there's going to be issues

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Speaker 1: and problems that pop up that need to get worked out,

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Speaker 1: and often it's less of a headache to just sit

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Speaker 1: play out, rather than to jump on board early and

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Speaker 1: to go through all of those issues in real time.

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Speaker 1: I say this to you as much as I say

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Speaker 1: it to myself, yet again, because recently I jumped on

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Speaker 1: the Android twelve beta and ran into numerous little issues. Again,

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Speaker 1: that was a beta, so it's to be expected. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's on me these days. I'm back on to

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Speaker 1: Android eleven and happy as can be anyway. October, plan

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Speaker 1: your part ease. Now you know those PC operating system

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Speaker 1: release parties, they get wild Man. There's punch and that

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Speaker 1: wraps up the news for Tuesday, August again. Stay safe,

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Speaker 1: stay well, and I will talk to you again really soon.

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