May 13, 2021

333: Apple vs. Epic: Puritanical Edition

1 hour

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, and then pivot to the crummy future of smart toasters and their ilk, as the chip shortage persists.

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Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership 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 BabyLand General® Hospital Cabbage Patch Kids