Sunday Reboot: Stadium iPhones, Epic messaging fail, and Plex
Sunday Reboot: Stadium iPhones, Epic messaging fail, and Plex
Publish Date: 2026-05-24 17:09:00
Source Domain: appleinsider.com
In this week’s “Sunday Reboot,” Apple shoots soccer with iPhones, Epic Games misses the mark with its messaging, and Plex’s astounding price rise.
Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get the next week underway with a good first step.
This week, Apple faced protests over the closure of the Apple Towson Town Center store, the first unionized store. It also elected to continue the never-ending lawsuit with Epic Games via the Supreme Court, and it turns out some server schematics were stolen in the May cyberattack of Foxconn.
Fortnite returns to iPhone with a misguided celebration
The lawsuit between Epic Games and Apple has been excruciatingly long, painfully expensive, and seems like it just won’t end. And yet, somehow, Epic has taken what should’ve been a happy promotional event and made it melodramatic.
Fortnite, the game that started the whole lawsuit shenanigans, is back in the App Store in most countries. That’s a big thing for Epic to go on about, and it did, complete with an Apple-like social media ad.
This is something we can expect from Epic Games. It’s a big song and (video-based) dance, promoting its moneymaker by shaking its moneymaker
This is great for gamers, but it is overshadowed by two things. First, that Australia is excluded from the revival due to cases still being processed in the country.
The second and more unfortunate thing, is the press release that Epic created. One that ominously says “The Final Battle Approaches.”
This is in reference to how the U.S. federal court will “force” Apple to be transparent over its App Store fees. Epic believes that regulators around the world “will not allow Apple junk fees to stand.”
It goes on to say it will continue to challenge Apple on its alleged anticompetitive practices, like banning alternative stores and payment systems.
It’s an astoundingly contrasting approach,…
