The legal system moves slowly, but the opening round of the main event is at hand.
Epic’s basic allegations boil down to that Apple’s 30% commission for sales to Apple customers cannot be explained by anything other than that Apple is using monopoly power to make consumers pay more than they should and to drain profits from software developers like EPIC by:
Using technology to block sales to Apple device owners outside Apple ‘s App store
Banning from Apple’s devices all products of developers who work around the technical roadblocks
Charging an unjustifiable 30% commission for sales through Apple’s App Store
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Four years after President Donald Trump began to pull
the US out of the landmark Paris climate agreement, President Joe Biden and his top officials are re-engaging with world leaders and making aggressive commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The Biden administration has an unequivocal message
at the two-day Leaders Summit on Climate this week: America is back.
The biggest news out of the virtual event
was the commitments various countries made to reduce their emissions. At the top, Biden formally pledged America would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent relative to 2005 levels by 2030 the most ambitious target the US has set to date. Still, as Vox’s Umair Irfan laid out, some believe the goal is not big enough given the sheer scale of the current climate crisis and pace of warming.
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, a new Vox reporting initiative on the science, politics, and economics of the biodiversity crisis.
You don’t have to look far to find signs that wildlife is in peril. And most of the news stories about it these days follow a predictable formula: Species are going extinct and, in most cases, humans are to blame.
To be clear, that’s true, and there’s every reason to be alarmed. A report from September, for example, found that the populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish have declined by almost 70 percent, on average, since 1970. Another finds that 1 million species are threatened with extinction.