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- 0:06Speaker 1: A new ruling coming down from the courts on Apple
- 0:08Speaker 1: could have huge impacts on crypto. Today, we'll break it
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- 0:50Speaker 1: So Apple went into court and they've been going back
- 0:54Speaker 1: and forth with a judge. Things have really started to
- 0:57Speaker 1: heat up, and now we have a ruling. And when
- 1:00Speaker 1: you go out and look for media on this particular topic,
- 1:04Speaker 1: there is none to be found hardly. I mean I'm
- 1:06Speaker 1: looking at just an Apple court case general search right here,
- 1:10Speaker 1: and almost nobody is reporting on this, so very interesting positions.
- 1:16Speaker 1: I mean, here's one small random channel out there with
- 1:20Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy views. This could be the biggest
- 1:23Speaker 1: court case in modern day times. And I go all
- 1:27Speaker 1: the way back to the scenario that played out back
- 1:30Speaker 1: in the late nineties with Microsoft in terms of antitrust.
- 1:34Speaker 1: That's the kind of level that we're talking about. Now,
- 1:36Speaker 1: let me jump over here. Apple hates iOS app developers.
- 1:39Speaker 1: This is kind of where it all began. Apple hates
- 1:42Speaker 1: iOS developers that were dumb enough to write it out
- 1:44Speaker 1: clearly in slack. So this is a lot of their
- 1:46Speaker 1: internal communication. You can kind of see a lot of
- 1:48Speaker 1: statements there that basically what they were trying to do
- 1:51Speaker 1: is make it harder and harder for iOS developers and
- 1:55Speaker 1: other app builders to be able to take payments outside
- 1:58Speaker 1: of the monopoly ecosystem known as the app store. So
- 2:02Speaker 1: and one of the things they said, and they were
- 2:03Speaker 1: talking to Phil Schuler.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Phil Schiller is one of the key executives.
- 2:06Speaker 1: By continuing on the web, you will leave the app
- 2:08Speaker 1: being taken to an external website. External websites sounds scary,
- 2:12Speaker 1: so execs will love that. Then one employee fur the
- 2:15Speaker 1: road to make it your version even worse. You could
- 2:18Speaker 1: add the developer name instead of the app name, and
- 2:21Speaker 1: then that came into another respondent.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Ooh, keep going.
- 2:24Speaker 1: So the point being is is they were working in
- 2:27Speaker 1: concert to try to make it hard for these companies
- 2:31Speaker 1: to operate outside of the app ecosystem. And when you
- 2:35Speaker 1: go into the layout, this was actually in the court documents.
- 2:39Speaker 1: This is the kind of link layout that they were
- 2:41Speaker 1: proposing to make work. And this is the problem that
- 2:45Speaker 1: because this is you know, kind of just a basic level.
- 2:48Speaker 1: But the whole idea was is not to get you
- 2:51Speaker 1: to buy anything outside of the Apple App Store.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Apple Zone.
- 2:56Speaker 1: Witness mister Fisher testified that he could think of no
- 2:58Speaker 1: other reason to require developers to use plane link style
- 3:02Speaker 1: buttons other than.
- 3:04Speaker 2: To stifle competition.
- 3:05Speaker 1: All right, So from all that, basically the judge said, Okay,
- 3:09Speaker 1: we're done. We're done with this, so their continued attempt
- 3:11Speaker 1: to interfere with competition will not be tolerated. This coming
- 3:14Speaker 1: directly from the judge. Apple believed that the court would
- 3:17Speaker 1: not see through the obvious cover it, So they were
- 3:20Speaker 1: pretty much taking it for granted that, hey, we don't
- 3:22Speaker 1: really care what the court says. We're just gonna cover
- 3:25Speaker 1: this up. They will, you know, nothing's gonna happen. This
- 3:28Speaker 1: is kind of the attitude that was being generated by
- 3:31Speaker 1: the key executives over at Apple. And this also goes
- 3:35Speaker 1: all the way down from Phil Schiller to Tim Cook.
- 3:37Speaker 1: I'll get to that in a second. Let me go
- 3:39Speaker 1: to this next section of the document and it states
- 3:42Speaker 1: vice President of Finances is Alec Roman outright lied under oath,
- 3:46Speaker 1: so that was one of the criminal potential criminal issues. Internally,
- 3:49Speaker 1: Phil Schiller, one of their key executives, had advocated for
- 3:52Speaker 1: Apple to comply with the injunction, but Tim Cook ignored
- 3:57Speaker 1: Schiller and instead allowed their CFO Luke Maestra and the
- 4:02Speaker 1: finance team basically convince him otherwise, don't have to worry
- 4:05Speaker 1: about it, and then Cook basically chose poorly as what
- 4:07Speaker 1: the court had ruled. So, as you can see, this
- 4:11Speaker 1: is much deeper in the cover up, utilizing their chief
- 4:15Speaker 1: financial officer, their key product guy, Phil Schiller, and the CEO,
- 4:21Speaker 1: all of which were done under their VP of Finance.
- 4:24Speaker 1: This Alex Roman guy. So this was a concerted effort
- 4:28Speaker 1: to basically deceive the court going into this, and this
- 4:31Speaker 1: is where it gets kind of crazy. Further into this,
- 4:34Speaker 1: the court referred some matters over to the district attorney.
- 4:38Speaker 1: The court refers to the matter of the United States Attorney,
- 4:40Speaker 1: This is the United States Attorney for the Norton District, California,
- 4:43Speaker 1: to investigate whether the criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate. So
- 4:49Speaker 1: essentially finding that they were in contempt and criminal level.
- 4:54Speaker 2: Charges would be weighed in.
- 4:55Speaker 1: So this is where the court pretty much drew the line,
- 4:59Speaker 1: and now we have Apple executives that literally could end
- 5:03Speaker 1: up in some hot water for all of this. The
- 5:06Speaker 1: injunction is not a negotiation. So what they're saying here
- 5:10Speaker 1: is there's no do overs. Once the party willfully disregards
- 5:13Speaker 1: to court order times of essence, now the court will
- 5:16Speaker 1: not tolerate for those delays.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Basically, what it's saying is this is it.
- 5:20Speaker 1: Guy's done, We're over, and now we're seeing an absolute
- 5:24Speaker 1: massive win for developers out there.
- 5:26Speaker 2: In the gaming community.
- 5:27Speaker 1: Almost any app that you can imagine where you pay
- 5:30Speaker 1: a fee to pay through Apple, I think most everybody
- 5:33Speaker 1: on all your services you're probably going directly to the
- 5:36Speaker 1: website of that company because you don't want to pay
- 5:38Speaker 1: the extra two to three dollars for just a basic
- 5:41Speaker 1: streaming service something like a Hulu or even at Disney Plus.
- 5:44Speaker 1: All of that has been done through Apple. Now all
- 5:47Speaker 1: of that could disappear and we could see an absolute
- 5:50Speaker 1: different format of how payments will be done. So much
- 5:53Speaker 1: so that Stripe was showcasing some potential opportunities iOS developers.
- 5:58Speaker 2: Big news.
- 5:59Speaker 1: You can now accept payments with Stripe outside your app,
- 6:01Speaker 1: no iOS App Store commission. So Stripe team cooked up
- 6:05Speaker 1: this quick guide. This is going to be happening very quickly.
- 6:09Speaker 1: With that, you also see that you're going to see
- 6:11Speaker 1: developers out there starting to build new web paywall buttons.
- 6:16Speaker 1: So remember this is all outside the app ecosystem, where
- 6:19Speaker 1: you'll be able to just link right to it, boom
- 6:21Speaker 1: pay for it, not have that additional thirty percent fee,
- 6:24Speaker 1: which is what Apple is really facing. Okay, so what
- 6:27Speaker 1: you've got here Ryan Jones, he's Flighty. This is a
- 6:29Speaker 1: CEO for Flight, one of the top apps in the
- 6:31Speaker 1: App Store. So what they're going to do starting to
- 6:33Speaker 1: mar the app in the US will have a save
- 6:36Speaker 1: twenty percent with Apple pay kind of type buttons, type buttons,
- 6:38Speaker 1: not save twenty percent. But that's the kind of potential
- 6:43Speaker 1: marketing that these apps will now be able to do.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Instead of Apple doing that to them, it's now them
- 6:48Speaker 1: doing it to Apple. So it's getting a little juicy
- 6:52Speaker 1: over there for Apple, and I think this could change
- 6:54Speaker 1: the whole format of how the Apple App Store runs
- 6:57Speaker 1: all right, So where you go a little bit deeper in.
- 7:00Speaker 2: The document, this is Apple making this stamus.
- 7:02Speaker 1: As we believe there will be very little developer adoption
- 7:05Speaker 1: of this link out assuming that the scenario where we
- 7:08Speaker 1: would give a cost of payments of a discount of
- 7:11Speaker 1: around three percent, So at three percent, So the point
- 7:15Speaker 1: is is that the developers are going to take every
- 7:17Speaker 1: penny they can outside that ecosystem. Now that the court
- 7:20Speaker 1: is requiring Apple to do this, that I think is
- 7:25Speaker 1: another misstep by Apple. This is going to go viral
- 7:28Speaker 1: across all of these The potential impact on Apple is
- 7:32Speaker 1: going to be unbelievable. Now, you guys all know Tim Sweetey,
- 7:36Speaker 1: CEO of Epic Games. They've been going head to head
- 7:39Speaker 1: with Apple on this very issue of being able to
- 7:41Speaker 1: offer games up there and not deal with all these
- 7:43Speaker 1: crazy fees. Here he is on Lex Freeman talking about
- 7:47Speaker 1: this court winning Take a look.
- 7:49Speaker 3: All companies are terrified of Apple. Epic was in the
- 7:52Speaker 3: unique position with Fortnite having a majority of our users
- 7:55Speaker 3: playing on PC and console. Spotify, Facebook the top ten
- 8:00Speaker 3: mobile apps. I think none of them would be able
- 8:02Speaker 3: to survive without Apple, like literally, their business would be destroyed.
- 8:06Speaker 3: They are also sending a message to all developers in
- 8:09Speaker 3: the world, we will destroy your business or we will
- 8:11Speaker 3: try our best if you fight us. They've been slowing
- 8:13Speaker 3: down updates for several major tech companies, sometimes for weeks,
- 8:17Speaker 3: sometimes for months, without all going under the radar because
- 8:20Speaker 3: everybody's afraid to challenge them publicly. I firmly believe that
- 8:23Speaker 3: something like the metaverse will only arise. It's something like
- 8:25Speaker 3: a thing can only exist if the Apple and Google
- 8:29Speaker 3: gatekeeping monopolies are lifted.
- 8:33Speaker 1: So as you can see even Sweeney himself saying that
- 8:36Speaker 1: we are going to see a new evolution now. And
- 8:38Speaker 1: I think when you look at the impact of what
- 8:41Speaker 1: this is going to have on the market around blockchain, crypto,
- 8:46Speaker 1: possibly metaverse, VR gaming, we're going to see an entirely
- 8:50Speaker 1: new platform. Here's Sweeney talking about it right here, We'll
- 8:54Speaker 1: return Fortnite to the US app iOS app.
- 8:57Speaker 2: Store next week. He puts forth a piece proposal.
- 9:00Speaker 1: If Apple extends the court's friction free Apple tax free
- 9:04Speaker 1: framework worldwide, then we'll return Fortnite to the app store worldwide.
- 9:09Speaker 1: That'll be a big deal because gamers will explode onto
- 9:14Speaker 1: Fortnite within the Apple ecosystem globally, if at least the
- 9:18Speaker 1: very least we'll be here in the United States. Now,
- 9:21Speaker 1: how is all this is going to continue to affect
- 9:23Speaker 1: where gaming is going to be going.
- 9:26Speaker 2: Let's take a look at attempts.
- 9:27Speaker 3: When he had to say, at the top games on
- 9:29Speaker 3: iPhone at almost all times are these ridiculously greedy, high
- 9:33Speaker 3: monetizing wayale games which are pervaded with pay to win
- 9:37Speaker 3: and loop box practices. And you know it's very hard
- 9:40Speaker 3: for the fund based games to actually succeed there. So
- 9:43Speaker 3: these thirty percent fees are raising prices of all digital goods.
- 9:46Speaker 3: It's just inflationary as a force in the economy. That's
- 9:49Speaker 3: just the first drag text. But then to reach users
- 9:51Speaker 3: before Apple block Fortnite on iOS, when the user searched
- 9:54Speaker 3: for Fortnite, the first result was always some competing game
- 9:57Speaker 3: utterly anti user steams, not getting in ship with advertising
- 10:01Speaker 3: Apple is. So if you want to be the search
- 10:04Speaker 3: first search result for your game, you're probably paying more
- 10:06Speaker 3: like forty five percent. If you want to reach users
- 10:08Speaker 3: on social media, you're paying another twenty percent. So literally
- 10:11Speaker 3: something like seventy percent of the revenue in a game
- 10:14Speaker 3: is just going into junk fees to acquire users and
- 10:17Speaker 3: get them in your game, and the money that's left
- 10:19Speaker 3: over is only enough to fund these, you know, games
- 10:22Speaker 3: with rather abusive practices that do not look to normal
- 10:24Speaker 3: gamers like games for the most part.
- 10:27Speaker 1: So what you're going to see is really an elimination
- 10:30Speaker 1: of all this junk gamery that's happening within the Apple
- 10:34Speaker 1: ecosystem and moving back to traditional games that are really
- 10:37Speaker 1: fun to play and will become viral, but have been
- 10:41Speaker 1: thwarted because of all these fees that Apple has imposed.
- 10:45Speaker 1: When you look at crossmanth they basically stated at it
- 10:47Speaker 1: right here, the Apple tax is death.
- 10:49Speaker 2: It's over.
- 10:49Speaker 1: Federal Corps just ruled Apple must allow to link external
- 10:53Speaker 1: checkouts with no restrictions and no thirty percent cut.
- 10:57Speaker 2: What this simply means, guys, is we are going to
- 10:59Speaker 2: be seeing.
- 11:00Speaker 1: Crypto, all sorts of NFT apps. We'll see tokens, digital assets,
- 11:05Speaker 1: you name it. All of that will be one hundred
- 11:08Speaker 1: percent revenue generated for the actual developers without Apple's fee,
- 11:13Speaker 1: which is really what I believe has thwarted crypto projects
- 11:17Speaker 1: and apps to work inside the app ecosystem going forward, Now,
- 11:21Speaker 1: how does all of this start to affect crypto and NFTs?
- 11:25Speaker 1: Will it be a massive wave coming in? So where
- 11:29Speaker 1: does this all land in terms of how the market responded? Well,
- 11:33Speaker 1: Microsoft surpasses Apple to become the largest company by market cap.
- 11:38Speaker 1: Remember Microsoft one of the key gaming platforms out there.
- 11:42Speaker 2: With Xbox.
- 11:42Speaker 1: We will see mobile I think, start to really escalate.
- 11:46Speaker 1: And again Microsoft still has to walk a very fine
- 11:48Speaker 1: line as well, much like Google, around all of these
- 11:51Speaker 1: kinds of situations that are brewing within this monopoly within Apple,
- 11:56Speaker 1: because this will have an effect I think, on all
- 11:58Speaker 1: the major players because they know that the courts are watching.
- 12:01Speaker 1: So this is another big advantage. Now, the other thing
- 12:04Speaker 1: I want to get to is how analysts look at Apple.
- 12:08Speaker 2: And what its future might hold.
- 12:10Speaker 4: Take a look tomorrow, We've got two more major reports
- 12:13Speaker 4: coming right here on overtime Apple and Amazon.
- 12:16Speaker 5: He has a buyer rating on Apple with a two
- 12:18Speaker 5: hundred and thirty dollars price target.
- 12:20Speaker 4: Gil, what will you be watching?
- 12:21Speaker 6: Yeah, we're not expecting a good result or a good Outlook,
- 12:25Speaker 6: you just talked a lot about Meta and Microsoft. Those
- 12:27Speaker 6: results aren't just as not as bad as feared. Those
- 12:30Speaker 6: results were actually good. I would not expect that from Apple, all.
- 12:35Speaker 1: Right, So analysts seeing that there is no bolcase for Apple,
- 12:39Speaker 1: this is another strike and I think, what dare I say?
- 12:44Speaker 2: Deathblow to Apple if we look at this.
- 12:46Speaker 1: As a future Because remember, there's one core element that
- 12:50Speaker 1: Apple has relied on for many, many, many years, and
- 12:53Speaker 1: that has been the revenue coming out of the iOS
- 12:56Speaker 1: app store.
- 12:57Speaker 2: And when you look at the iOS app store.
- 12:58Speaker 1: It feeds into the entire ecosystem of Apple as a whole.
- 13:03Speaker 1: So they have got a lot of repair to do
- 13:05Speaker 1: and a new strategy that is eventually going to have
- 13:08Speaker 1: to be implemented to save where Apple's future could be
- 13:11Speaker 1: because this could get bad very quickly. Now you have
- 13:15Speaker 1: to think about AI as well, because all of this
- 13:17Speaker 1: is really flowing into the future of AI. Apple is
- 13:20Speaker 1: also behind the a ball on AI development. We've already
- 13:24Speaker 1: kind of shown and we did a video on this
- 13:25Speaker 1: whole breakdown. Go back and check that one out. But
- 13:28Speaker 1: they were being completely outclassed by almost every AI developer
- 13:32Speaker 1: out there. I want to go to a clip here
- 13:33Speaker 1: there's a Perplexity CEO and he's talking about how much
- 13:38Speaker 1: more advanced they are than the majors.
- 13:40Speaker 2: Take a look.
- 13:41Speaker 7: What they're doing on Android is like bad. Right now.
- 13:45Speaker 5: We have like an Android app and Android assistant that
- 13:47Speaker 5: can control the os natively, and they're not letting us
- 13:51Speaker 5: get it on OEMs, even.
- 13:54Speaker 7: If the OEMs want it.
- 13:55Speaker 5: But our assistant that can call other apps and do
- 13:59Speaker 5: work for you was clearly superior to Gemini, and nobody
- 14:03Speaker 5: wanted to go take the brave step of removing Gemini
- 14:06Speaker 5: as the default system and making Perplexity the default system,
- 14:09Speaker 5: because if they do that, they're unable to offer placestore, maps, YouTube.
- 14:15Speaker 7: Reloaded on these phones.
- 14:16Speaker 5: And if you cannot offer that, nobody can really install
- 14:19Speaker 5: other apps on the market.
- 14:20Speaker 4: Well, if you feel that way about Android, how do
- 14:22Speaker 4: you feel about Apple?
- 14:24Speaker 5: The hope is that both Android and iOS allowed the
- 14:28Speaker 5: user to pick the AI that they want for certain tasks.
- 14:33Speaker 2: That may occur.
- 14:34Speaker 1: And I think it's probably going to have to be
- 14:36Speaker 1: a case that does actually happen. It's very similar to
- 14:40Speaker 1: what happened in the early two thousands with Dell. I
- 14:44Speaker 1: don't know if you guys know this, but Dell and
- 14:46Speaker 1: Microsoft were married at the hip, and basically the reason
- 14:49Speaker 1: Microsoft went into an anti trust lawsuit was because they
- 14:51Speaker 1: had locked down all the major manufacturers to use Internet
- 14:55Speaker 1: Explore as the primary default. This pretty much killed Netscape
- 14:59Speaker 1: if you know anything about Lore, That's kind of the
- 15:01Speaker 1: scenario that we're facing now with AI. It's very possible
- 15:05Speaker 1: we could be in kind of the same situation around
- 15:07Speaker 1: all these hardware developers being able to select and you,
- 15:10Speaker 1: as a customer, select which AI you want to use.
- 15:13Speaker 1: Things are going to change fast, guys. It is going
- 15:16Speaker 1: to be And here's the wild card. Crypto is part
- 15:19Speaker 1: of this. It's a big part of this. Here's a
- 15:22Speaker 1: clip on which AI gets to perform the most and
- 15:25Speaker 1: what could gain, what they could gain from it.
- 15:27Speaker 2: Take a look.
- 15:29Speaker 4: We are expanding, expanding for whom.
- 15:45Speaker 1: All right, So I just got you know, we had
- 15:46Speaker 1: to play that clip. Point being is that it opens
- 15:49Speaker 1: up the game a lot for potentially AI agents. Obviously,
- 15:53Speaker 1: virtuals Protocol was the one that we're talking about.
- 15:55Speaker 2: Right there.
- 15:56Speaker 1: Here's a tweet from them and it simply says, no
- 15:58Speaker 1: time for a victory lap features dropping tonight they see it.
- 16:02Speaker 1: The wall is now been breached, John Snow we're coming
- 16:06Speaker 1: for you. Last up I want to hit on is
- 16:09Speaker 1: one more statement from the judge that all of this,
- 16:12Speaker 1: this is the court injunction, that it thought that this
- 16:15Speaker 1: court would tolerate such insubordination was a gross mixed calculation
- 16:21Speaker 1: by Apple, and as always, the cover up made it
- 16:25Speaker 1: worse this court. There is no second bite at the Apple. Apple,
- 16:31Speaker 1: There's no second bite at the Apple. You know, it's
- 16:34Speaker 1: not a funny situation because this has been conduct from
- 16:38Speaker 1: a major company that has control technology for the last
- 16:41Speaker 1: three decades almost I think times are changing, guys, and
- 16:45Speaker 1: maybe all of this could be well into the wheelhouse
- 16:49Speaker 1: of where crypto is going. So watch closely. We're going
- 16:52Speaker 1: to be covering a lot of this here on the show.
- 16:54Speaker 1: What projects are going to be able to be affected
- 16:56Speaker 1: by this, How gaming could be affected, as well as
- 16:59Speaker 1: a lot of other crypto n f T projects that
- 17:01Speaker 1: I think equally are going to have a positive outcome
- 17:04Speaker 1: from all of this. Make sure and get into the
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