The Weekly Tech Rant

Episode 158: It's Time for Microsoft's Major Layoffs and Meta's AR Ambitions, Plus Apple's European App Revolution

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This week we covered:

    • News
      • Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
      • Meta ‘optimistic’ about Vision Pro as it hopes to be the ‘Android’ of the AR/VR world
      • Apple… Hell has frozen over
        • Apple announces reduced commission structure for apps in Europe
        • Apple announces support for third-party iPhone app stores in the EU, coming with iOS 17.4
        • Apple says third-party app marketplace creators must have €1,000,000 ‘letter of credit’
        • Apple will prompt users to set default browsers and allow third-party web engines on iPhone in the EU
        • Apple lets apps feature streaming games, chatbots and other built-in experiences
        • iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more

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