311: Summer of App Store Problems

Epic takes on Apple and Google's dominance of smart phone app stores with an app update and corresponding legal filings and publicity campaign. What's Apple's next move, and more importantly, what do we wish Apple would do to change its App Store policies? Also, Apple releases a bundle with the promise for many more, which leads us to get a little bit sad about the state of Apple's current service offerings.

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Martin Scorsese Apple First-Look film TV Deal For His Sikelia Banner – Deadline

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Inks First-Look Deal With Apple – Deadline

Apple TV+ greenlights “Harriet the Spy,” starring Beanie Feldstein and Jane Lynch - Apple TV+ Press

Fortnite vs Apple vs Google: a brief and very incomplete timeline - The Verge

Tired of paying fees to platform owners, Epic Games goes to court – Six Colors

Apple Threatens to Terminate Epic Games' Developer Accounts on August 28 - MacRumors

WSJ plans to stick with Apple News+ because it attracts ‘a different audience’ - 9to5Mac

Apple Readies ‘Apple One’ Subscription Bundles to Boost Services - Bloomberg

Daring Fireball: Thoughts on an ‘Apple One’ Subscription Bundle

Apple Developing Fitness App for iOS 14 That Lets You Download Guided Workout Videos - MacRumors

Their Businesses Went Virtual. Then Apple Wanted a Cut. - The New York Times

The Week Old Hollywood Finally, Actually Died - The New York Times

Apple TV+ subscribers get CBS All Access and SHOWTIME bundle at a great value - Apple

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