Data Portability and Antitrust Challenges for Apple

Square is acquiring a majority stake in Tidal, and either this makes little sense, or it’s a watershed moment in this NFT/creator economy phenomenon that’s suddenly washing over all of us. Apple walks the walk in terms of data portability. But they’re facing serious new anti-trust scrutiny in the UK and Arizona. And our year of Covid, at least measured in internet traffic numbers.

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Links:

• Square acquires majority of Tidal, Jay-Z’s streaming service, in $297 million deal. (NYTimes)
• Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos (MacRumors)
• Apple Probed by U.K. as App Store Payments Scrutiny Mounts (Bloomberg)
• Arizona App Store Bill (The Verge)
• Ethereum now an option on Amazon’s managed blockchain service (The Block)
• Comcast: Pandemic drove peak internet traffic up 32% in 2020 (VentureBeat)

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