Legal Battles and Industry Shifts: Apple, Spotify, and AT&T

Facebook unveils the Oculus Quest 2, as a part of its Facebook Connect (formerly Oculus Connect) event. Amazon Music gets podcasts. Spotify puts the Apple One bundle on blast. Developers have found yet another reason to get pissed at Apple. And AT&T is not only bringing advertising to HBO, they want to add ads to you phone as well.

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• Oculus Quest 2 delivers standalone VR with sharper 90Hz screens for $299 (Engadget)
• OCULUS QUEST 2 REVIEW: BETTER, CHEAPER VR (The Verge)
• Snowflake is largest software IPO ever (Axios)
• Amazon Music Joins Podcasting Fray (WSJ)
• Driver Charged in Uber’s Fatal 2018 Autonomous Car Crash (NYTimes)
• Spotify says Apple One bundle is a 'threat to collective freedom' (Apple Insider)
• Apple accuses Epic of ‘starting a fire and pouring gasoline on it’ in new Fortnite filing (The Verge)
• Apple surprised iPhone users with a next-day iOS 14 release. App developers are pissed. (Mashable)
• Exclusive: AT&T considers cellphone plans subsidized by ads (Reuters)
• AT&T Plans Lower-Priced Version of HBO Max With Advertising (Bloomberg)

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