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 (theverge.com/news/659246/apple-epic-app-store-…)
• Tim Sweeny’s Victory Lap (x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1917716512347152499)
• Epic win: Apple forced to give developers (almost) free reign to link out and avoid paying Apple's 30% cut - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com/2025/05/01/epic-win-apple-link-out…)
• Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers - Practicalities of Modern Patent Litigation Conference Practicalities of Modern Patent Litigation Conference (conferences.law.stanford.edu/stanfordpatent202…)
• Daring Fireball: Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers Rules, in Excoriating Decision, That Apple Violated Her 2021 Court Order Regarding App Store Anti-Steering Provisions (daringfireball.net/2025/04/gonzales_rogers_app…)
• ChatGPT is getting better for shopping | The Verge (theverge.com/news/656729/openai-chatgpt-search…)
• OpenAI says its GPT-4o update could be ‘uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress’ | The Verge (theverge.com/news/658850/openai-chatgpt-gpt-4o…)
• Meta launches standalone AI chat app based on Llama 4 for iPhone and iPad - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com/2025/04/29/meta-launches-standalon…)
• Mark Zuckerberg is planning a premium tier and ads for Meta’s AI app | The Verge (theverge.com/news/659242/mark-zuckerberg-is-pl…)
• ‎Snapshot on Apple (snapshot.apple.com)
• Amazon Considered Displaying Tariff Charges on Its Ultracheap ‘Haul’ Site - WSJ (wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-considered-disp…)
• Congress passes Take It Down Act to fight deepfake nudes, revenge porn - The Washington Post (washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/28/congr…)
• Raycast for iOS (raycast.com/ios)
• Why the lettering on Pope Francis's tomb looks so bad - Fast Company (fastcompany.com/91324550/kerning-on-pope-franc…)
• Accessibility - Apple (apple.com/accessibility)

• () - Intro

• () - Apple Broke the Law

• () - Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers

• () - Epic v Apple Trial

• () - Cook Chose Poorly

• () - Apple VP LIED Under Oath

• () - Phil Schiller Voice of Reason

• () - What It Means for Apple

• () - ChatGPT Shopping

• () - Meta’s AI App

• () - Even the Beach Has Ads

• () - Apple Snapshot

• () - Amazon Tariff Pricing

• () - I Was Deepfaked

• () - Raycast iPhone App

• () - The Pope's Kerning

• () - Stephen Bought a Thing...

• () - Amazon Refurb Scam

• () - Apple Accessibility is Really Good

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