
iWar
Fortnite, Elon Musk, Spotify, WeChat, and Laying Siege to Apple's Empire
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The wildly enthralling and entertaining story of Apple's monopolistic impulses and the global business and political forces arrayed against its $3 trillion empire.
iWar is a saga of corporate intrigue, control, and competition, featuring some of the world's most brilliant and powerful minds. It is the story of Apple, the tech corporation which has built near unassailable market power through its iPhone and app ecosystem and controls not only commerce, but also culture, and—increasingly—the flow of ideas. And it is the story of a powerful cadre of tech moguls determined to take it down.
Over time, a loose and disparate group of billionaires, each driven by their own reasons, has formed to challenge Apple’s supremacy, including Daniel Ek (Spotify), Tim Sweeney (Epic Games/Fortnite), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook/Meta) and Elon Musk (Twitter/X). With in-depth reporting, Wall Street Journal business columnist Tim Higgins chronicles these tech moguls and their quest to weaken a powerful rival, aiming at destroying the Walled Garden around Apple’s iPhone Empire, while telling a larger story of the global digital and information economy.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- Authorâs Note
- Prologue
- Part I: New Worlds
- 1: An Unreal Hero
- 2: âWitnessing Historyâ
- 3: âMoral Responsibilityâ
- 4: A Book Too Far
- 5: Big Business
- Part II: Walled Garden
- 6: An Irish Problem
- 7: Battle of the Bands
- 8: Super Apps
- 9: Frenemies
- Part III: Battle Royal
- 10: A Rising Kingdom
- 11: Sweeneyâs Rebellion
- 12: Revenge of Google
- 13: Liberty or Deplatform
- 14: Wild West of Law
- 15: Sixteen Days in Court
- Part IV: Techlash
- 16: The Culture War
- 17: Infinite Loop(holes)
- 18: Return of Sweeney
- 19: The Ides of March
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by Tim Higgins
- Copyright
- About the Publisher