iWar
eBook - ePub

iWar

Fortnite, Elon Musk, Spotify, WeChat, and Laying Siege to Apple's Empire

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eBook - ePub

iWar

Fortnite, Elon Musk, Spotify, WeChat, and Laying Siege to Apple's Empire

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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Information

Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9780063397965
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Author’s Note
  4. Prologue
  5. Part I: New Worlds
  6. 1: An Unreal Hero
  7. 2: “Witnessing History”
  8. 3: “Moral Responsibility”
  9. 4: A Book Too Far
  10. 5: Big Business
  11. Part II: Walled Garden
  12. 6: An Irish Problem
  13. 7: Battle of the Bands
  14. 8: Super Apps
  15. 9: Frenemies
  16. Part III: Battle Royal
  17. 10: A Rising Kingdom
  18. 11: Sweeney’s Rebellion
  19. 12: Revenge of Google
  20. 13: Liberty or Deplatform
  21. 14: Wild West of Law
  22. 15: Sixteen Days in Court
  23. Part IV: Techlash
  24. 16: The Culture War
  25. 17: Infinite Loop(holes)
  26. 18: Return of Sweeney
  27. 19: The Ides of March
  28. Epilogue
  29. Acknowledgments
  30. Notes
  31. Index
  32. About the Author
  33. Also by Tim Higgins
  34. Copyright
  35. About the Publisher