Pavel Jelic We've been bringing you an Apple and IT roundup every weekday for several months now - and today will be no different. In today's IT roundup, we take a look at Twitter's new feature, why Facebook is threatening Australia and, in the latest news, Ridley Scott's take on Epic's copycat of his '1984' ad Games. Let's get straight to the point.
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Twitter comes with a great news
The social network Twitter has been constantly improving in recent months, which can also be seen in the user base, which is constantly growing. Twitter is an absolutely great network if you want to get all information quickly and easily. There is a limited maximum number of characters, so users must express themselves quickly and concisely. Just today, Twitter announced that it is starting to gradually roll out a new feature to users that has to do with the tweets themselves. The new feature that Twitter has implemented is called Quote Tweets and it makes it easier to see the tweets that users have created in response to a certain tweet. If you retweet a post on Twitter and add a comment to it, a so-called Quote Tweet will be created, which other users can easily view in one place. Originally, retweets with comments were treated as regular tweets, thus creating a mess and in general such retweets were very confusing.
Tweets about a Tweet add more to the conversation, so we've made them even easier to find.
Retweets with comments are now called Quote Tweets and they've joined the Tweet detail view. Tap into a Tweet, then tap "Quote Tweets" to see them all in one place. pic.twitter.com/kMqea6AC80
- Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) August 31
As I mentioned above, Twitter is gradually rolling out this feature to users. If you don't have the function yet, but your friend already does, try updating the Twitter application in the App Store. If the update is not available and you have the latest version of Twitter, then you simply have to wait for a while - but it certainly won't forget you, don't worry.
Facebook threatens Australia
A few weeks ago, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) introduced a regulatory proposal to allow Australian news magazines to negotiate fair compensation for the work of Australian journalists. You probably don't understand what this sentence actually means. To make things a little easier, the ACCC has proposed that all Australian journalists will be able to set the prices they will have to be paid if their articles are shared on the internet, for example on Facebook etc. The ACCC wants to achieve this by so that all journalists are properly rewarded for the quality work they do. According to the government, there is considerable instability between digital media and traditional journalism. For now, it is a proposal, but its potential approval certainly does not leave the Australian representation of Facebook cold, specifically Will Easton, who is the main article of this representation.
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Easton, of course, is very upset about this proposal and hopes that it will not be carried out in any case. Furthermore, Easton states that the Australian government simply does not understand the concept of how the internet works. According to him, the Internet is a free place, which for the most part consists of various news and news content. Because of this, Easton decided to threaten the government in his own way. In the event that the above law is enforced, users and sites in Australia will not be able to share Australian and international news, neither on Facebook nor on Instagram. According to Easton, Facebook has even invested millions of dollars to help various Australian journalism companies - and that's how the "payback" happened.
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Ridley Scott reacts to copycat of his '1984' ad
There is probably no need to remind too much about the case of Apple vs. Epic Games, which removed Fortnite from the App Store, along with other games from the Epic Games studio. The game studio Epic Games simply violated the rules of the App Store, which led to the removal of Fortnite. Epic Games then sued Apple for abuse of monopoly power, specifically for charging a 30% share of every App Store purchase. For now, this case continues to develop in favor of Apple, which for now sticks to the classic procedures as in the case of any other application. Of course, the Epic Games studio is trying to fight against Apple with a campaign that people can spread under #FreeFortnite. A few weeks ago, the studio Epic Games released a video called Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite, which completely copied the concept from Apple's Nineteen Eighty-Four commercial. Ridley Scott was responsible for creating the original ad for Apple, who recently commented on the copy from Epic Games.
The video itself, created by Epic Games, shows Apple as a dictator setting the terms, with the iSheep listening. Later, a character from Fortnite appears on the scene to change the system. There is then a message at the end of the short video “Epic Games has defied the App Store monopoly. Because of this, Apple blocks Fortnite on billions of different devices. Join the fight to make sure 2020 doesn't become 1984.” As I mentioned above, Ridley Scott, who is behind the original ad, commented on the remake of the original ad: “Of course I told them [Epic Games, note. ed.] wrote. On the one hand, I can be happy that they completely copied the ad I created. On the other hand, it's a shame that their message in the video is very ordinary. They could have talked about democracy or more serious things, which they simply didn't. The animation in the video is terrible, the idea is terrible, and the message conveyed is… *eh*,” said Ridley Scott.
