The Level1 Links with Friends Show May 7 2025: Temu Tariffed
Source: YouTube · Level1Techs · published May 7, 2025 · 34:12
Apple updates its App Store guidelines to allow external pay links, enabling apps to promote alternative pricing (e.g., 30% cheaper on external sites), raising concerns about consumer confusion and potential 30% retention of Apple’s payment fees 1:02. This shift may lead to increased consumer reliance on external platforms, with projections suggesting a significant portion of users will continue paying full prices on Apple’s ecosystem 1:40.
Key Takeaways:
• Apple’s new App Store rules permit external payment links, allowing apps to disclose pricing differences 1:02.
• AI models from years ago remain useful for niche tasks, such as generating Star Trek sound effects from MP3s via a Python script, demonstrating practical, albeit imperfect, capabilities 5:27.
• Microsoft’s Windows Recall feature raises privacy concerns, with potential unauthorized data access and financial deductions 6:56.
• Major tech layoffs and game cancellations (e.g., Titanfall) reflect broader industry downturns, with companies prioritizing cost-cutting over innovation 8:43.
• Google DeepMind UK is unionizing over AI use policies, highlighting growing worker resistance to AI-driven corporate decisions 12:35.
• AI surveillance and data harvesting are expanding, including NYC’s subway behavior prediction and eye-scanning ID projects, raising concerns about privacy and misuse [25:21, 26:31].
The future of technology is increasingly shaped by AI-driven automation, surveillance, and corporate power, with consumers facing rising costs, reduced privacy, and diminished control over personal data.
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[Music] Hello everybody. Welcome back to the L1 links show with friends. Friends links show. We're doing uh what are we doing? I forgot business. We could start over, but why not? Oh no, it's a surprise. My brain just like completely just shortcircuited. It's business and I don't business and security cuz the first day was social and that was weird. Do you think anybody like finds out what the topics are and it's just like I'm out. Yeah, probably. People really like the nonsense section. That's our most popular day. Yeah. Yeah. That's always on Friday. Yeah. Anyway, business and we already talked about this one in government because this was a decision by the courts, but it was followed up. You know, I guess the there is no appellet path here, right? It's over, Johnny. Apple updates its ap…