Weekly Tech Rant: Episode 158

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

Welcome back to the WTR as Karl and Jay discuss the latest tech news, gadgets, games, & films!

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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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