Michael and Johnny start their International Technology Tour by looking at the Asia-Pacific region. Specifically, we look at the largest companies in the traditional industries - Telecommunications and Manufacturing.

In the News of the Week, we discuss Epic's fight with Apple and Google over their respective mobile app store policies of charging 30% and enforcing all developers to use their payment systems.

Recorded Date: Sunday, August 16, 2020

Time Stamps

• 00:00:20: Epic vs Google and Apple
• 00:06:42: Start of our world tour
• 00:07:50: Jio
• 00:16:00: Huawei
• 00:23:59: Samsung
• 00:32:28: Foxconn
• 00:36:12: TSMC
• 00:39:45: Sony and Japanese Hardware Makers
• 00:44:11: Shenzhen
• 00:45:50: Regional Trends

Highlights

• You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a monopoly
• Will Apple change their App Store policies with these mounting opposition from smaller and large companies alike?
• Our world tour across the oceans begins!
• The rise of Samsung represents the rising dominance of South Korean firms over Japanese firms

Links

• How Jio became India's biggest telecom network
• How Jio manages to make profits
• Western Nations close doors on Huawei
• Huawei cannot use Google App store/services
• Samsung - South Korea's Chaebol
• Wikipedia - Foxconn
• Wikipedia - Terry Gou
• Wikipedia - Largest Tech Companies by Revenue
• Foxconn CEO: China no longer 'world's factory' due to Trump trade war
• Epic vs Apple/Google

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