Apple and Google Push Back Against EU’s Digital Markets Act #1808

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Episode Transcript

(00:01):
Lead story for Thursday,
March 20.
Apple and Google are pushing back against the
EU's Digital Markets Act,
claiming new interoperability
and openness rules hurt consumers' innovation.
The European Commission says these tech giants
are abusing market dominance with Google facing potential

(00:22):
fines
for favoring its services and restricting developer freedom.
Apple isn't under pressure to take to make
iOS
more
compatible
with third party devices.
The tech giant argues the rules compromise security
and user experience,
highlighting growing tension between

(00:43):
Apple, Google,
and European
regulators.
As this lead story
portrays,
it is once again the EU
doing things that probably, in some instances, probably
should be happening here in The United States.
You know, they're demanding more interoperability

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and
I always think that's good and fairness in
App Store and so forth.
And of the two decisions made by the
EU on Wednesday, the implications are more immediately
worse worseome
worrisome
for Google than Apple.
The commission issued a preliminary
finding following an investigation into whether Google search

(01:25):
favored promoting company's own services. Well,
duh.
And, of course, the Google Play Store prevents
app developers from steering people to other channels
as well. And, of course, on both counts,
Google
was failing to comply with the DMA, meaning
it could be in line for fine up
to 10% of its annual global turnover.

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And, of course, both practices negatively impact many
European and non European businesses that rely on
Google search
or Google Play to reach users in the
EU.
When it comes to Apple, the commission issued
guidance as to how it wants the company
to make third party products,
smartwatches, for example, interoperable

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with iOS and pad iPad.
The aim, it said, is to give people
in Europe more choices of products they can
buy that will be compatible with iPhones and
iPads.
I guess the question is which
products I would ask you. What is that
list
that isn't interoperable
now?
Now at the same time, we know that

(02:27):
some of this activity has been more of
a money grab
than anything else.
But at the same time, we all know
that,
you know, Apple and Google,
are pretty, pretty hardcore
when it comes to the App Store
and the percentage of monies that they're able

(02:47):
to earn
from sales and,
you know, for subscriptions that are happening,
through the iOS
phone.
So time will tell how this ultimately boils
down whether or not the president will get
involved because he has indicated
in the past that he doesn't like how
the EU is essentially funding its IT tech

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off the backs of American
companies.
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So I hope everyone's doing well.
Just found out that the green screen
is delivered. I have to go downstairs and
and pick that up today.
So maybe we'll be with a a green
screen on the next show.
It's already Friday here in The Philippines. I'm
looking forward to the weekend. Very, very full,

(06:17):
work week.
Lots of meanings, lots of things going on,
lots of moving parts.
It's amazing when you add
just a few more people to the team
just how much more work,
can be accomplished as a whole. It's really
it's really quite incredible. It really, really is.
But, doing well. And,

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anyway, let's go ahead and and get into
the stack of content
and let's keep this tech train
rolling.
I've always said if you are a Mac
user, you are not exempt.
Mac users are in danger of a well
known Windows phishing attack. And what what it
basically is,
it just scams it's a scam way

(07:00):
to make you think that an update is
needed. You'll get a pop up basically saying
your computer's
got a a bug or virus or it
needs to be updated
and it tries to social engineer you into,
clicking
one of those links.
And, don't do it.
Just maintain your updates as you would with

(07:22):
any other
Mac product. Don't be enticed
by some pop up saying that you need
to update something.
You get you know how Mac is updated.
Just follow those
normal,
updates.
And I I truly believe you should run
a Norton and Malwarebytes.
I I do. I've run it for years

(07:43):
on my on my Mac
and picked up a virus here and there,
picks up a malware, picks up
me trying to go to a site I
shouldn't be going to.
It's all,
all in the name of security. I know
many of you run without any antivirus
and without any malware.
I'm just not willing
to risk it, especially in this economy where

(08:05):
we're all working. Oh, many of us are
working from home and using our computers and
keeping security up is really,
really important.
Stalkerware
data breach potentially hits over 2,000,000 users including
thousands of Apple devices.
And this is kind of,

(08:26):
it's really bad. A widely used consumer grade
stalkerware
operation
was hit by a data breach in 2024.
TechCrunch
claims the beach the the, the breach affected
Spy x
and two related mobile apps
impacting information for almost 2,000,000 people including 17,000

(08:48):
Apple iCloud credentials. Now I'm not familiar
with what Spy x is,
but Spy x calls itself the best phone
monitoring app and provides real time recording video
and audio screenshots
of the target's device. And these are often
used by
spouses that are,
have,
you know,

(09:09):
maybe some infidelity going on on the other
part. They're trying to catch them or it's
also it's often marked as parental control, but
we know that's
probably not true.
But,
Spy x never inform people
of this breach. So if you're if you
have been using
Spy x, be aware,

(09:30):
stuff about you is out in the wild.
There's an interesting article about Five Eyes. Now
those of you that
are not familiar with five eyes. Five eyes
is
an alliance between Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom,
Canada, and The United States where they share
intelligence
information.

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And we know that there has been a
pause in intelligence sharing from The US to
Ukraine that happened,
earlier in the month.
And that pause has since been lifted, but
what has really been found is even though
The United States stopped
sharing information,
that wasn't the case with,

(10:13):
Australia, New Zealand, UK and Canada.
But there's been some reporting going on that
really the information coming out of those countries
was very very slim
and that The United States bores
the majority
of
the intelligence sharing. And I I would say

(10:34):
based upon, you know, my thirty some years
of having been read in and have access
to
classified material,
very rarely did I see something coming out
of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Some more
coming out of The UK during the Gulf
War
and Australia as well. But,
yeah, it, it definitely

(10:55):
the bulk of the information
is with The United States.
YouTube is, investigating a bug causing low res
videos. So apparently, if you're playing shorts, some
of them are streaming at a 44 p
versus 03:60.
So they're looking into that. So be aware
of that if you're seeing some low quality
videos. Also, WhatsApp has patched a security flaw

(11:18):
which lets hacker which let
hackers install spyware.
WhatsApp is huge here.
It's the number one way to to communicate.
People don't have telephone numbers.
They just have digital plans or they have
a telephone number with very little data or
you're not able to forward incoming phone calls

(11:39):
or text.
So WhatsApp is really the the big one.
And they fixed a zero day vulnerability,
which it was apparently used by nation states
to spy on journalists, dissidents, political opponents,
and others. And, of course, that's what happens.
Of course, that's what did happen in The
United States, but,
it's happening outside The United States on a

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on a regular basis.
A data breach in the Pennsylvania Education Union
potentially exposes 500,000
victims.
Pennsylvania State Education Association has
potentially exposed more than half a million
people to identity theft phishing.
So just be aware of that.

(12:21):
This public sector union sent a data breach
notification letter to the individuals.
So if you're infected, you will get a,
a letter over that.
And my Windows machine over here, which just
does one simple job, it does streaming, audio
streaming,
is sitting here raging.
It's just screaming like it's,

(12:43):
like it's out of control. I'm gonna have
to look to
not use that. And it's sitting here, the
fan's running so high. It's just driving me
crazy. Those of you that are are watching
the show
can see if I can point it can
see it over here. It's really doing nothing
more than and it's just sitting there howling.
NASA's examine options for another Starliner test. Oh,

(13:06):
really?
After
at a briefing after the return of the
Crew Dragon spacecraft to complete the Crew nine
mission,
Steve Stitch, NASA commercial crew program
manager said the agency expected another Starliner test
flight with or without people on board before
beginning
crew rotation missions with the vehicle.

(13:26):
He says, what we'd like to do is
one flight and then get into the crew
rotation flight.
So the next flight up would be to
test all the changes that they make into
the vehicle and then the next flight beyond
that would need to get Boeing into crew
crew rotation.
So a step backwards, potentially going without a
crew.
Again, the test flight could be with an

(13:49):
uncrewed mission that would be able to support
crews even if we were flying the vehicle
without a crew.
We want to be able to be crew
capable. So we want to have all the
systems in place
that we fly with a crew aboard. So
you run everything like someone was in there,
you know, soaking up oxygen.

(14:10):
So, anyway, you know, they they prove themselves
capable of bringing the
the spacecraft back. So I guess, you know,
maybe they get another shot at it. This
is kinda shocking here. A man has filed
a complaint after ChetGPT said he killed his
children.
So I guess
he asked for ChetGPT

(14:31):
for some information about himself and he basically
said that
he,
he had been, convicted and went to jail
for,
for killing his kids.
And,
the response Chet g p t included
that he was a Norwegian individual gain attention
due to a tragic event.

(14:51):
He's it said he was a father to
young boys, seven and 10, which were tragic
and found dead in a pond near their
home.
Oh, I guess so. It didn't say he
murdered them. It said he just so it
found
it
wrong.
Mister Holmes said the chat g b t
got their age gap roughly right suggesting it

(15:12):
did have some accurate information about them. So
was this was any of this information clear?
Did he did they actually die?
I don't think so. They don't make it
clear here.

(15:33):
But it's not clear
if there was a
a drowning or not. So
so maybe the boys did actually drown but
okay. So there is some confusion here. But
anyway, yeah, it it posted wrong information about

(15:56):
him. So
check what it's saying about you.
Google Gemini is coming to Chrome for faster,
easier browsing quote unquote.
Google's testing integration of Gemini at the top
of the browser and the latest Chrome Canary
build to facilitate access to the AI and
make your browsing experience easier easier.

(16:16):
Thanks to browser researcher,
new details about the feature works have emerged.
So, yeah, you knew this was coming. It
was gonna be embedded right in the browser.
I'm not surprised,
whatsoever.
Apple apparently isn't happy what's going on with
the Siri. Apple is undergoing a rare shakeup
of its executive ran ranks and may aim

(16:38):
to get its AI preference back on track.
Bloomberg Bloomberg
News reported Thursday citing people familiar from the
report
chief executive team Cook has lost confidence in
ability of AI head
John, oh my gosh, Gia Andrei,
Gia
Andrei
to execute on product development. So he's moving

(17:00):
over another top executive to help VisionPro
creator Mike Rockwell.
You think this guy's gonna help considering
what's happened with Vision Pro and how it's
really not advanced?
Time will tell.
Chromebooks are not dead. Acer has just launched
seven new Chromebook,
Chrome OS laptops

(17:21):
aimed at students and professionals.
Prices range from €329
or about $430
to around €729
or about $800,
be available in May. So a whole stack
of new Chrome OS laptops.
TikTok is adding Amber alerts for to the

(17:44):
for your feed.
So this is interesting.
So via the via their blog post is
teamed up with the National Center for Missing
Exploited Children to bring these alerts to users
and to leverage the power of the TikTok
community to help reunite kids
with their families. So good move
on TikTok. And you can see they're they're

(18:05):
doing some things right now to,
try to keep the,
them in the public eye. I've been seeing
ads for them on digital TV ads,
which is curious.
So forget the folding iPhone. Apple has patented
a foldable Apple Watch with two screens.
It looks like something out of a spy

(18:25):
kid movie.
Interesting.
So I wonder if you'll see the normal
screen on top and then dual screen on
the bottom.
So it reels a unique feature, also features
a camera and even a rotating and slight
and sliding elements.
So,
that would definitely be a radical design for

(18:47):
me. I think that would be a quick
trip to a broken
watch. I'm always banging
my watch on stuff,
So I'm not sure that would work out
for me, but, hey,
I'd probably buy one just for this nostalgia
fat factor of, you know, beam me up,
Scotty type of a deal. Right?
Nvidia is selling RTX GPUs from a food

(19:08):
truck.
Yes. At GTC twenty twenty five, Nvidia has
a couple thousand RTX 50 a's and fifty
ninety cards
reserved for attendees only.
I set nine ninety nine and nineteen ninety
nine.
So I'll be honest. I was watching the
keynote of the NVIDIA
founder.

(19:32):
It
it it really
and I'm looking at the hardware that they
are creating and
their road map.
They got some serious juju going on right
now. I mean,
unbelievable
advancements

(19:52):
in GPUs
and rack stack and storage and
density.
There are there
I I think they're using AI to build
these machines
or or there's an alien over there helping
them.
I'm
literally
blown away at the

(20:15):
fast iteration.
They're going from a specific
GPU to how they're involving their rack,
and the amount of power
that, the just incredible amount of power that
these racks require.
And, you know, they're they're counting every watt
on
these boxes because when you replicate across

(20:38):
the whole data center, you know, extra watt
or two or three or five here or
there, just so they're they're reinventing tech just
to lower the power consumption.
If you get a chance and I'll see
if I can link it in the show
notes,
the keynote he gave was astounding. My my
jaw was just

(20:58):
literally on the floor.
It looking at the hardware
advancement and where where they're coming from.
I had to kind of giggle this next
article talks what's behind the change relationship between
Jeff Bezos
and Donald Trump.
What's behind it?
You

(21:18):
don't wanna piss him off.
You know, and,
you know, there's has been this love hate
relationship
and, you know, Bezos has got a lot
of stuff going on. Amazon,
Blue Origin,
you know, you you you wanna you wanna
you wanna fight with the administration?
Sure. Go ahead. See how that works out

(21:39):
for you.
You know, that's why
they don't like him, but they gotta work
with him. That's just the way it is.
Either that or you, you know, we you're
definitely you're gonna garner no favors.
It's a good article around Ars Technica talking
about the DOT must not give Tesla or

(22:00):
other automakers a free pass.
Consumer advocates of families of Tesla crash victims
both called on secretary transportation,
secretary Sean Duffy this week not to weaken
oversight of the automotive industry as other government
agencies
since the change administration. They wanna make sure
that safety
is followed in a Tesla autopilot or FSD.

(22:23):
I think they're going to. I would cons
you know, I I think the general public
is smart enough to understand if if safety
has been reduced
and more risk are being taken while you're
the person sitting in the vehicle with this
with the autopilot,
You're the one at risk. You're gonna want
some oversight on this for sure.
China's Baidu

(22:44):
Baidu and I think I pronounced that wrong,
which is a big, search engine there, denies
data breach after one of his executives,
the daughter leaked personal information about someone she
was having a little fight with online.
And we go,
The company, one of China's largest cloud providers,
was thrust in the spotlight last week after

(23:06):
online users accused a teenage daughter
of Baidu vice president Xi Zheng Zhong of
posting personal information of other users such as
their phone numbers after getting into an online
argument.
Excuse me. Sneezed on you there. Baidu said
all employees and executives at all levels were
prohibited

(23:26):
from accessing user data.
Baidu has also filed a police report regarding
false information circulating online.
But how did the teenager get this information?
The teenage admitted her father had provided her
with database access as the controversy over the
incident continues to swell.

(23:48):
Xi, who is part
You know, they're covering six here
for sure.
Anything in China, it's open.

(24:10):
Backdoors
backdoors everywhere.
We've talked about censorship a lot in this
show, but x has sued
the India government over content removal
in a censorship fight.
New Delhi,
India's IT Ministry, has unlawfully
expanded censorship powers to allow the easier removal

(24:31):
of online content and empowered countless government officials
to execute such orders.
Axe is allegedly
has alleged in a new lawsuit against New
Delhi.
The lawsuit and allegations
mark an escalation and ongoing legal dispute between
ex and prime
minister, Narendra Modi's government, over how New Delhi's

(24:51):
orders
content to be taken down. It also comes
as Musk is getting closer to launch his
other key venture, Starlink
and Tesla in India.
But I'm gonna tell you, every country is
different.
You know, freedom of speech, I don't think
it exists many places truly without the government
putting their thumb on it. Something that you

(25:12):
have to continue to watch.
This is a really good article.
Our genes reveal mysterious
split in human population
one point five million years ago. This is
at sciencealert.com.
And I started reading through this. I got
about it a third way through it. It
it is really,

(25:33):
really interesting.
Comes with a couple of cute graphs too.
It talks about the evolution of man
and,
how things split and win. So
definitely,
if you're into anthropology
and into,
this type of information and understanding,
how we developed,

(25:55):
this is a good one. It really, really
is. Definitely,
give it a look and,
and give it a read. Very, very, very
good article.
Okay. Google is working on a cleaner backup
interface for Android users,
and they're redesigning backup page on Android to
give a cleaner and more organized appearance. That's

(26:15):
one thing about my
my
my iPhone, iPad.
It it'll remind me if it hasn't been
backed up, but it just works.
I don't even have to think about it.
You know? I I really do. It it
it's just one of those things that it
just it just happens.
And on Android, I I don't think it

(26:35):
says clean.
Now Android backup page can be found in
settings
under system backup that allows users manage control
their data backed up from their phone
to their Google account. You can initiate backups
or various data types including apps and app
data.
So the updated design for the backup page
is still a work in progress, but they've
got some preliminaries.

(26:57):
And,
you know, let's let's make that happen. I
think it's good because it's never
completely
clear,
how the backup is went on an on
an Android device for sure.
Well, if I tell you, Roku has definitely
pissed off some people. We talked about in
the last show that Roku's home screen ad
experiment is just not setting well

(27:19):
with people and people are complaining about it
in in a big big way. I won't
rehash it but, you know, we talked about
it in the last show and them showing
ads before they show the home screen and,
yeah,
people are not at all pleased and and
they say, hey. This this is just
too much.

(27:40):
Same time, Tesla has recalled more than 46,000
cyber trucks after some trim has started falling
off. The truck steel trim is attached using
glue
that's susceptible to environmental
embrittlement.
So they're going to put a fix on
those cyber trucks. So 46,000
vehicles recalled.

(28:01):
LG's
NFT
marketplace, which I never fully understand for TVs
where you could buy digital art
is being, shuttered
and they're gonna close a platform on June
17. So if you I don't know what's
gonna happen to anything you bought,
but,
anyway, they're closing the platform.

(28:22):
Netflix
CEO is really
amped up the words.
He, talked a lot of smack about,
Max specifically.
And it's not every day that you see
a tech exec
dunk on their competitor competitors.
But this week's Netflix CEO, Todd Sarandos

(28:45):
was feeling a bit bold
and he just thinks that the HBO, HBO
Max yeah. I I was even confused. There
was
HBO, HBO Go, HBO Now, HBO Max. There
was Max, Max Plus, Max Premium, Max, you
know, Superstar.
Really?
What what was this?
You know? And just call it HBO.

(29:07):
Just call it
HBO and make it simple. We all know
HBO,
but I don't think they're gonna rename again.
Who knows?
Verizon users will soon be able to text
via satellite with the correct phone.
Google Pixel nine, Samsung Galaxy s 25.
Those are the only two devices that supported

(29:28):
on the Verizon network. So if you got
one of those new bad boys,
you will be able to text via satellite
when you're in an area where there is
no
connectivity.
I was pretty shocked to see this next
one.
Apple TV
has a billion dollar annual loss.
A billion.

(29:48):
Of course, that's just a rounding error for
Apple,
but that blows me away. That's a billion
dollars.
And I have to admit,
I spend
probably
90% of my time
on two or three
services,
Netflix, YouTube,

(30:09):
and my IPTV
service here.
That's it.
So
very interesting
that they've lost a billion a year
even though they got 45,000,000
people
that are subscribed. They gave away a lot
of free
access to that whenever you bought,
an Apple device too. So I wonder if

(30:31):
that was part of it. I don't even
know if I've got a subscription to Apple
TV plus. I I don't think so.
I think I would see that in my
in my charges. I you know, I don't
think so.
McDonald's is revealing a Minecraft
movie meal with a bar bizarre set of
collectibles and most sinister sounding sauce ever.

(30:52):
So, this is definitely a sign of the
times, a Minecraft
meal.
So, the items will be available from April
1
in The United States and March 26 in
The UK. Collectibles
at in game goodies will be up for
grabs.
And,
what is the sauces? They have,

(31:14):
the Big Mac allegedly mined from the sea
of a special sauce, whatever that means. The
blocky purple grimace egg.
So they're
big mac crystal, birdie wings, fry helmet, grimace
egg, soda potion,
zombie hamburger. So that's what will be available

(31:37):
on your local McDonald's meal.
You know, in a flash of the past,
there's a fun thing on digital trends talking
about a BBC report from 1971
talking about a car radio of the future.
And,
it's,
it is kind of fun. It's a fun
little thing to watch and see how far
we've come

(31:58):
in in the world of tech and, you
know,
not to mention,
tech but hairstyles
as well.
I guess that was the time of of
turtlenecks in the seventies.
God. Please let those days never come back.
I'm definitely not a turtleneck fan at all.
Now if you're a Plex user, Plex is
raising prices making a great key feature no

(32:20):
longer
free. So I saw this and, you know,
I've had a love hate relationship with Plex
over the years. But if you use Plex
to manage your home media library,
not only are all of its prices about
to rise, but the platform developers announced that
you'll no longer be able to remotely stream
your media for free.

(32:41):
Isn't that some BS?
The changes revealed on a blog post,
Plucks Day, the monthly price for Plucks Pass
will increase from $4.99 to $6.99 while the
annual price rise from 39 to $6.99
$69.99.
And the most eye watering setup was the
rivers or plaque to ultimate pass,
which will more than double from a hundred

(33:03):
19 to $2.49. That just
that's just crazy.
So the incoming price hike has a lot
of subscribers contemplating signing up to the lifetime
pass.
And,
what is lifetime
yeah. So
that a hundred $19

(33:24):
is the way to go for that lifetime
pass.
So before the pay in for the before
the price increases. But this is such a
bad move by Plex and, you know, maybe
this just
marks the end. What are you guys using
now to manage your internal
digital movie collection? You know, I have all

(33:44):
mine on Plex. I
you know, that was painstakingly
done as well.
So
AI is taking over your favorite fast food
restaurant as Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC
team up in Nvidia.
Five hundred locations by the end of twenty

(34:05):
twenty five. What are they gonna do?
So if you've been to one of the
more 100 AI powered restaurants,
you may have already ordered a Crunchwrap
Supreme by speaking to AI. For rest of
us who've yet to experience an AI server,
your closest Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, or
Habit Burger might be
doing this soon.

(34:26):
So I guess you send your order to
the AI.
There's another job lost,
to a digital being.
Finally today, talk about the 16 e, the
first iPhone to feature the Apple design c
one modem talking about speed test.
So there's some good data in here. This

(34:46):
is from Okla,
the people that
do speed test
and it talks about high
how the 16 e
offers better worst case speeds, but iPhone 16
has higher top end performance. So,
again, when it comes to actual,
transfer speed,

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they've got the benchmarks there. So very, very
cool. Hey. I wanna thank you for for
being here. Thank you for tuning in. For
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live stream
and didn't realize I was doing that until,
someone said it in a live my my

(35:28):
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is low and I couldn't figure out. She
was watching on Facebook or something and could
barely hear it. So, my apologies.
Still, that's not perfect with OBS.
It really is not,
especially from an audio chain standpoint.
I'm doing the show here. It's pretty good.
But when I have a guest, it's a

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the Windows machine
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