- Reviews for the AMD Radeon RX 6800
and 6800 XT they're out.
And according to the Linus tech tips video
that I just watched, the cards are very competitive
compared to the RTX 3070, and 3080
when it comes to gaming, especially at 1080p.
However, once you crank up that ray tracing and resolution
it's clear that Nvidia still has the upper hand,
thanks to their more mature ray tracing cores
and extra goodies like DLSS.
On the other hand, the 6800 XT is 50 bucks cheaper
than the 3080, which is out of stock everywhere.
So, you could just pick up one of the AMD cards instead.
Well, that is if they weren't experiencing
the exact same stock shortages
that have affected every new tech release
in the past few months.
- [Male Voice] We are cursed!
Well, if we can't get an actual unit
then maybe we can get a little schadenfreude
from multiple reports that have emerged
of scalpers being robbed
in the middle of selling their ill gotten stock.
Okay, well, no, hold on a second,
scalping is bad, but robbing people is also bad.
So, let's not go all like Kevin Costner, Robin hood here.
Cause that's not a great movie.
The reviews are also out for Apple's new M1 Max,
at least by the people who Apple deemed special enough
to receive their units early.
And it looks like the part of Apple's presentation
that was partially accurate
was their claims about power efficiency.
The M1 SoC appears to offer compelling performance
compared to competing PCs
without even having to spin up the fans
on the Mac mini or MacBook Pro in many cases.
Whether the software support will be there
seems to be the real question though.
And many developers have released app updates
with optimizations for M1,
but there are also some growing pains.
Google pulled Chrome for M1 Macs
to fix issues before re-releasing it.
And Adobe's apps are a bit glitchy
yet that's it for the time being.
But then, of course you can use Pixelmator Pro
just switch it's easy.
Oh, and you can also play World of Warcraft.
I was gonna make a dozens of (indistinct) joke,
but I mean are there any Macworld players
watching this at all.
- [Male Voice] I'm actually curious.
- Sound off guys.
Anthony's working on the full LTT review by the way
so stay tuned for a real Apple fanboys perspective.
In other Apple news, the company has completely randomly
decided to drop its App Store revenue cut to 15%
for small developers,
thanks to no actions that were taken
by any other company, obviously.
Wow, isn't that a coincidence.
App developers making less than $1 million a year
from the App Store can now take advantage
of the reduced rate,
which is also selectively offered
to giant players like Amazon,
but how will Apple survive now?
- [Male Voice] I'm worried.
- Ah, well, turns out that the small developers
that this policy affects actually make up around 98%
of all iOS developers,
but they only account for 5% of the App Store's revenue.
So Apple will be just fine.
- [Male Voice] Woo!
- Perhaps unsurprisingly opponents
of the so-called Apple tax
like Epic Games and Spotify are, well they're unimpressed.
Because they're not getting the 15% rate after all
with the Coalition for App Fairness
calling the move a symbolic gesture
rather than the real change
that is needed to fix the system.
You know, we've gotta take down the system, man,
take it down.
Also, Epic Games just opened another lawsuit
against Apple's App Store practices in Australia.
This time, the fight set to continue on
until Epic and Apple's trial next year.
- [Male Voice] (indistinct) fun.
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I won't
After Capcom downplayed the impact of a cyber attack,
it suffered a month ago,
the company has now confirmed
that files were stolen from its internal network
with info like names addresses and phone numbers
of as many as 350,000 customers having been accessed.
Hackers also made off with the source code
for a number of Capcom titles which have been leaked online.
This sucks, but as my grandma used to say,
well, devil may cry.
Boy, that was, boy was that a laboured joke.
- [Male Voice] Well, devil may cry.
- Apple has agreed to pay $113 million
in another settlement over "Batterygate."
The gate name that has been given to Apple's throttling
of older iPhone batteries through a software update.
Apparently, if they had just disclosed
what they were doing, instead of hiding it,
it could have all been perfectly legal.
So remember kids, just explain clearly what you're doing
next time you steal your neighbor's wifi
and there's nthing they can do about it.
Actually that you're right,
I was going to say, you know, you're right, right?
Google has relaunched their Pay App with new features
like banking, peer-to-peer payments, and financial tracking
because I mean,
they know basically everything else about you.
You might as well take the plunge
and let them help you with your finances too.
They have robots.
And Oppo has unveiled a working prototype
of the Oppo X 2021.
A concept phone with a rollable display,
it uses an internal motor to expand the display
from 6.7 inches to 7.4 inches, which is fine.
Don't get me wrong but like,
call me when I can unfold my phone like to monitor size,
like those old paper maps
that our ancient ancestors used to use.
I used paper maps.
(indistinct)
And Twitter has added fleets,
which are basically Instagram stories,
at the same time that Instagram changed
their notifications tab to a shopping tab,
confusing users everywhere.
So now Twitter is Instagram, Instagram is Amazon,
Amazon is Netflix, and Netflix is live TV.
So, what's TikTok then?
- [Male Voice] Twitch.
(feet stamping)
- Well, TechLinked is over or at least this episode is.
So, come back on Friday for more tech news,
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Oh, I was lamost off my box.
I'm fine.(indistinct)