{"id":254376,"date":"2026-05-24T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/sunday-reboot-stadium-iphones-epic-messaging-fail-and-plex\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:25:08","slug":"sunday-reboot-stadium-iphones-epic-messaging-fail-and-plex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/sunday-reboot-stadium-iphones-epic-messaging-fail-and-plex\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Reboot: Stadium iPhones, Epic messaging fail, and Plex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/24\/sunday-reboot-stadium-iphones-epic-messaging-fail-and-plex\">Sunday Reboot: Stadium iPhones, Epic messaging fail, and Plex<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/24\/sunday-reboot-stadium-iphones-epic-messaging-fail-and-plex\">https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/24\/sunday-reboot-stadium-iphones-epic-messaging-fail-and-plex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-24 17:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"appleinsider.com\">appleinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-lede\">In this week&#8217;s &#8220;Sunday Reboot,&#8221; Apple shoots soccer with iPhones, Epic Games misses the mark with its messaging, and Plex&#8217;s astounding price rise.\n<\/p>\n<p>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.\n<\/p>\n<p>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.\n<\/p>\n<h2 data-anchor=\"fortnite-returns-to-iphone-with-a-misguided-celebration\" id=\"fortnite-returns-to-iphone-with-a-misguided-celebration\">Fortnite returns to iPhone with a misguided celebration<\/h2>\n<p>The lawsuit between Epic Games and Apple has been excruciatingly long, painfully expensive, and seems like it just won&#8217;t end. And yet, somehow, Epic has taken what should&#8217;ve been a happy promotional event and made it melodramatic.\n<\/p>\n<p>Fortnite, the game that started the whole lawsuit shenanigans, is back in the App Store in most countries. That&#8217;s a big thing for Epic to go on about, and it did, complete with an Apple-like social media ad.\n<\/p>\n<p>This is something we can expect from Epic Games. It&#8217;s a big song and (video-based) dance, promoting its moneymaker by shaking its moneymaker\n<\/p>\n<p>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.\n<\/p>\n<p>The second and more unfortunate thing, is the press release that Epic created. One that ominously says &#8220;The Final Battle Approaches.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>This is in reference to how the U.S. federal court will &#8220;force&#8221; Apple to be transparent over its App Store fees. Epic believes that regulators around the world &#8220;will not allow Apple junk fees to stand.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>It goes on to say it will continue to challenge Apple on its alleged anticompetitive practices, like banning alternative stores and payment systems.\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an astoundingly contrasting approach,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/24\/sunday-reboot-stadium-iphones-epic-messaging-fail-and-plex\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Reboot: Stadium iPhones, Epic messaging fail, and Plex https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/05\/24\/sunday-reboot-stadium-iphones-epic-messaging-fail-and-plex Publish Date: 2026-05-24 17:09:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/photos5.appleinsider.com\/gallery\/67727-142750-sundayreboot-xl.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254378,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254376\/revisions\/254378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}