The New York Times reports that there was a meeting “with the department’s antitrust lawyers” on December 12th — a few days after Apple first blocked the app’s iMessage for Android solution.
The DOJ has an ongoing antitrust probe into Apple. Meanwhile, a handful of legislators would like the green bubble drama to stop, too.
[The New York Times]
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said yesterday that the administration is “tracking this case and the December 25th deadline” — after which imports of new watches will be banned over a patent dispute.
Jean-Pierre indicated that the US Trade Representative will be the one making the decision on whether to block the ban:
“Ambassador Tai is obviously carefully considering all of the factors in this case, so I don’t want to get ahead of any decisions that may come out of USTR. But she certainly has the authority to decide.”
— along with the rest of the truck, too. He’s got a 40-minute video out this morning taking Tesla’s new vehicle for a spin and offering some first impressions.
And yeah, he knows what we’re interested in.
The company is working with Amkor to have Apple Silicon chips tested and packaged in Arizona, not far from the TSMC plant in Phoenix where some of the chips are being produced.
Spotify had a bunch of artists record videos to their fans for its year-end Wrapped lists. Weird Al used his to joke about Spotify payouts from right inside Spotify’s platform.
