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#333: Apple vs. Epic: Puritanical Edition

May 13th, 2021 · 60 minutes

This week Simone and Christina are interrogating Apple vs. Epic! Would you download an unspeakable game… to your phone?? Would you?? We'll answer that and more as we examine Apple's puritanical behavior in the courtroom.

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Apple uses Itch.io’s ‘offensive and sexualized’ games as a cudgel against Epic - The Verge

Indie game marketplace Itch.io caught in the Epic-Apple crossfire - Axios

Itch Being Brought Into The Apple V Epic Case Shows What Corporations Think Of Queer Creators

In Epic v Apple, everybody is losing at the game of defining games - The Verge

Even Apple Knows Fortnite's Peely Is A Monster

Adi Robertson on Twitter: "Apple lawyer: “We have a large yellow banana here, in a tuxedo?” Weissinger: “Yes, that’s Peeley." Apple: [light paraphrase: “And in the tuxedo he’s known as Agent Peeley."" / Twitter

Adi Robertson on Twitter: "Apple lawyer: “We have a large yellow banana here, in a tuxedo?” Weissinger: “Yes, that’s Peeley." Apple: [light paraphrase: “And in the tuxedo he’s known as Agent Peeley."" / Twitter

Adi Robertson on Twitter: "Epic Lawyer: “A little bit of a digression: we talked about Peely, our banana?"" / Twitter

The Unspeakable Jam - itch.io

Sony Warns Tight PlayStation 5 Supply to Extend Into Next Year - Bloomberg

Chip shortage is starting to have major real-world consequences

Why is there a global chip shortage—and how will it end? | Fortune

Watch Venom 2 : Let There Be Carnage’s first trailer, which is full of carnage - Polygon

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