Morning Brew Daily - DOJ Sues Apple in Antitrust Case & The World's Most Expensive Drug

Episode Date: March 22, 2024

Episode 285: Neal and Toby unpack the DOJ’s latest suit against Apple, alleging that it monopolized the smartphone market. Could this antitrust case have some legs? Then, why the Dodgers fired Shohe...i Ohtani’s translator over his controversial debt. Meanwhile, a round up of the latest advances within the health tech industry including the first brain-implanted Neuralink patient. Next, this week’s Stock and Dog of the week. Also, the SEC is looking to crack down on false advertising of “AI” from companies riding the hottest buzzword in tech. Lastly, a shipwreck worth billions is going to be recovered, but the question is…whose is it? Use code MORNINGBREW50 to get 50% OFF your first Factor box at https://bit.ly/3UUZGG0 Get your Morning Brew Daily Merch HERE: https://shop.morningbrew.com/products/morning-brew-daily-sweatshirt?utm_medium=multimedia&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=mbd&utm_content=shownotes Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow Check out our newest Morning Brew show here: After Earnings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:26 Terms and conditions apply. Good morning, Brew, Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, the DOJ drops the hammer on Apple with an antitrust lawsuit that was not shot on an iPhone. Then what is going on with the gambling scandal involving MLB's golden boy, Shohei Otani? It's Friday, March 22nd. Let's ride.
Starting point is 00:00:54 It's only been one day officially of March Madness, and so far it's lived up to its billing. Three 11 seats knocked off their higher six-seated counterparts with Duquesne, Oregon, and, NC State all progressing last night. But the highlight of yesterday was Michigan-based Oakland University taking down Kentucky behind 10 three-pointers from a 24-year-old grad transfer. Those results have left just 1,825 perfect brackets from the over 22 million that entered ESPN's bracket competition. Neil, are you one of them? Actually, no, I'm not, but I had a great performance. I had all three of those 11 seeds going forward. And then I all. also had Oakland beating Kentucky for some reason.
Starting point is 00:01:38 I filled it out very fast yesterday morning right after our podcast, but I'm feeling really good headed into the weekend. You are sitting very pretty right now. The women's tournament also kicks off in earnest today. Most of the people I've talked to are more interested in that because, I mean, we've talked about this on the show. No one can really name a men's college basketball player right now, but everyone can name a women's college basketball player.
Starting point is 00:02:01 So Caitlin Clark begins her title charge in this, upcoming few days, so excited about the women's tournament. The only men's player I can name right now is Golky, the guy on Oakland. I mean, that was an incredible performance. He could become a mythological hero if they go into the next round on Saturday. I love it because he has shot 97.7% of his attempts from the field from behind the three-point arc. The man knows what he's good at. He stays in his lane and he does it very well.
Starting point is 00:02:28 Now let's hear a quick word from our friends over at Factor. So we talk about Factor on the show a lot, but one of the reasons it's easy. to do that is because they are always switching things up. Yeah, a weekly meal service is perfect content for us because the meals are always changing. When writing these, I like to jump on the Factor website and take a look at a section called Explore the menu. It's like a mini Instagram feed of amazing chef-cooked dishes. It shows the 35 meals that are on the menu for the week that could head your way if you sign up. Listen to some of these. Sweet and tangy barbecue ground turkey. Truffle butter filet mignon. Garlic herb roasted barramundi.
Starting point is 00:03:05 I'm not going to lie. I don't even know what Baramundi is, but as long as it's garlic herb-roasted, I am in. Toby, it's a fish. You know that. All right. Yes, chef. All right, if you want to see what's on the menu for this week, head to factormeals.com slash morning brew 50, then use code morning brew 50 to get 50% off. That's factor meals.com slash morning brew 50. Then use code morning brew 50 for that tasty 50% discount. You said this place was steps from the water.
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Starting point is 00:04:07 The Department of Justice and 17 states dropped a sprawling antitrust lawsuit on the iPhone maker yesterday, accusing it of using illegal tactics to make it hard for iPhone users to switch to competitors' smartphones and allowing it to entrench its monopoly in the market. This isn't just about green techs, of course. This lawsuit goes after the heart of what makes Apple Apple, that it's hardware and software work in perfect harmony together. But when you try to integrate something outside the Apple ecosystem, everything goes out of pitch. The DOJ is essentially laying siege to Apple's so-called Waldgarden that has turned it into one of the most valuable companies in the world. You can bet Apple will defend itself like
Starting point is 00:04:45 the Fellowship at Helms Deep, and it's not any stranger to antitrust action, but this suit is potentially the most damaging one yet because it targets the core of Apple's business, the iPhone. Yeah, the government looked at a few different ways that they think Apple is kind of carrying out this monopoly. One of them is suppressing the quality of messaging between iPhones and platforms. Like Android, we are all very familiar with the blue text versus green text debate there. But another thing that they've been doing is blocking the creation of these bigger super apps that can make cross-platform switching a little bit easier. For instance, I'm locked into Apple because I have my credit cards saved on there, my
Starting point is 00:05:20 passwords, my auto fill setup, my email. It's very difficult for me to switch at this point, and they kind of make it so that there's none of these apps that also capture all that information for you. They've also been blocking developers from creating digital wallets that maybe could go toe-to-to-to-to with the Apple wallet. So you start to see this has been a long-standing case that the government has been building for a long time, taking a lot of different attack vectors at Apple right now. Right. And it's not, being a monopoly isn't inherently illegal in itself. And Attorney General Merrick Garland took pains to say that. But he argues he and all these other
Starting point is 00:05:54 states are arguing against Apple that it's using illegal tactics to entrench its monopoly in the smartphone market to make sure that you an iPhone user are never going to switch to an Android. because of these particular strategies that Apple is using. And I also think some historical context is necessary when talking about a case like this, because really the last meaningful big tech regulation we got was Microsoft suit back at the early 2000s, honestly. Apple execs testified in that case, and when that suit was successful, it allowed Apple to do things like put iTunes on Microsoft platforms with led maybe to the creation of the iPod, which also led to the creation of the iPhone. So you start to see how these kind of tech cases can have ripple effects
Starting point is 00:06:36 and invite competition that lead to some of the mega companies like Apple that we know today. So before you say like, oh, the government is just attacking Apple because it's too big, there truly is some anti-competitive practices that open up lanes for other companies to thrive that right now Apple is squashing. Right. And that's what the, well, that's what the government is arguing. But Apple will probably invite that comparison to the Microsoft case because back then in the 90s. Windows had well over 90% market share. Some estimates had it at 97% of operating systems on all computing devices in the year 2000s. Apple does not have that much of a stranglehold on the smartphone market as Microsoft did on operating systems. It just has, I mean, it's a lot,
Starting point is 00:07:20 but it has 64% of the smartphone market. I said iPhone market. There you go. In the United States, which is well ahead of number two, Samsung, at 18. So Apple will probably invite that comparison, say, you took down Microsoft for being a monopoly in the 90s, but we are completely in different markets here. We have much different market share. Yeah, and finally, the big part of these suits is the relevant market that the prosecutor kind of targets.
Starting point is 00:07:50 The DOJ thinks it should be the American smartphone market, while Apple thinks it should be the global smartphone market. So that delination will also make a difference when it comes to how monopolistic their practices actually are. But we should say this thing's going to last many, many years. This is just this. We'll talk about it again. We'll talk about it again.
Starting point is 00:08:07 The Microsoft case lasted three to seven years, so this is not going away. MLB Megastar Shohay Otani has only been a Los Angeles Dodger for two games so far, but he's already in the middle of a mega controversy. Despite being one of the faces of the league, Otani, who hails from Japan, doesn't speak English very well. As such, his translator, Mizuhara, plays an outsized role in how he interacts with the world. Mizahara is constantly with him, shadowing him in virtually all aspects of his life, both on and off the field. But now Otani's attorneys have accused Mizahara of perpetrating a massive theft against Otani for stealing millions of dollars from him in order to pay off gambling debts.
Starting point is 00:08:50 Key to the accusations are $4.5 million in wire transfers sent from Otani's bank account, a California bookmaking operation. Neil, this whole story has tons of intrigue. Otani is an immensely marketable star with a spotless record. So immediately, people started speculating that maybe Mizuhara was taking the fall for him. Also, the Dodgers just signed Otani to a 10-year, $700 million deal. So they are clearly very interested as well. What do you make of all the twists and turns here?
Starting point is 00:09:19 This is absolutely wild. I think the timing is the craziest part. We were just talking about how the Dodgers and Padres were playing the first MLB. game of the regular season in Korea. And this was Otani's coming out as the Dodgers, $700 million man, the golden boy of baseball. And then just hours after that game ended, this crisis really started to be started to unfold with multiple reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about these, this paying off of gambling debts. And there was a huge changing of the story from both camps that only added to the mystery and the intrigue. Yeah, the sweet, there's been a bunch of
Starting point is 00:09:56 of weird switchups from both their camps. So on Tuesday, there was this pre-arranged interview where Mizohara told ESPN that he asked Otani to pay off his debt, that he thought he had placed legally. He said that he wanted to know that Shoah had nothing to do with it. He was just helping a friend out. But then on Wednesday afternoon, Mizohara switched his story and said Otani had zero knowledge of his gambling debts and that Otani had not transferred the money. So there's definitely some confusion as to what actually happened.
Starting point is 00:10:23 I think that there's clearly a lot of different parts. parties are trying to protect Otani here. And you can tell that via that little switchup that we saw from Tuesdays to Wednesday this week. Right. All parties involved said that Otani had nothing to do with gambling. He doesn't gamble. So it seems like that's one of the few facts we can hang our heads on.
Starting point is 00:10:43 Don't want to speculate, but one of the most plausible scenarios that have been floated is that Otani did lend this translator, the money, because he was in a tight spot. And so that was the first story they went with. And then they looked at the sort of laws, which refer to wire transfers for gambling. And they found that that was illegal. That is a crime in the United States. So then they kind of changed their story to say that Otani did not have any knowledge of it because he could be implicated for a crime for this money.
Starting point is 00:11:12 And so maybe that sort of recognition of you're not allowed to do that led to the switching of stories. Yeah, absolutely. And Otani and his translator have a very unique relationship because M.OB. franchises are actually required to have full-time interpreters for a lot of the Spanish-speaking players on the roster. Spanish-speaking players comprise about 30% of the entire league, and those translators are usually just provided by the team or someone, and you don't have a super-tight relationship with them, but for Japanese players, the dynamic is totally different. They often hand-picked their interpreters. They often are more than just your interpreter. They help you with
Starting point is 00:11:48 renting a car, renting a place, going to the supermarket, just living daily life. So that is also why this hits so close to home is that on the surface, the two looked like they're inseparable. So clearly there's some tensions growing in that relationship. Yeah, the big picture here is this is not how Major League Baseball wanted to start the season at all with this big rollout of Otani in a Dodgers uniform. And it shines a harsh spotlight on major professional leagues across the board, signing bigger deals, bigger partnerships with gambling companies. Okay, you're going to need to scrub up for this next part because we are headed to the
Starting point is 00:12:23 hospital to run down the biggest healthcare news of the week. First up, a video circulated showing a paralyzed man playing chess just with his brain. This man is 29-year-old Nolan Arbaugh, and he is the first patient to receive a brain computer implant from Elon Musk's neuralink. Back in January, Musk revealed that the first human patient had received a neuralink chip in their brain, but no one knew who that patient was until this week. On the video, Arbaugh said the device was not perfect, and he's run into some issues, but that the surgery was super easy, and the implant has already changed his life.
Starting point is 00:12:56 Yeah, he said it felt like he was using the force on the cursor, which probably is the best kind of example to reference here, because you are controlling it with your brain only. So one of the big leaps here that Neurlink actually made because moving a cursor isn't this massive leap because as far back as 2004 brain chips helped paralyze people move a cursor. The big difference is Neurlink has no external wires, There's nothing protruding from your skull.
Starting point is 00:13:24 The other big breakthrough is that Arbaugh was multitasking. He was playing chess while speaking about his experience. So that is a big leap that if you can have multiple thoughts going on, I don't know how that technology works, but that's clearly a step forward in this brain human interface. Yeah, pretty exciting stuff for this relatively controversial technology. Next up, Nvidia wants to flood hospitals with robot nurses as a way to alleviate significant nursing staffing shortages
Starting point is 00:13:50 and make it easier for patients to receive low-risk care. In a collab with a startup Hi, the tech giant unveiled voice-based digital agents that can help guide you through things like taking penicillin or checking in after an appendectomy. And here's the key. They'll work for just $9 an hour, much less than human nurses get paid and lower than minimum wage in most U.S. states. Critics call this dystopian, since these robot nurses undercut human nurses wages, and AI isn't exactly known for its reliability, which you absolutely need in a health care setting. Still, it's a sign of how AI is barging into the hospital like the Kool-Aid man.
Starting point is 00:14:27 Yeah, they are not shying. Hippocratic AI is not shying away at all from saying, we are undercutting human nurses. Human nurses cost upwards of $90 an hour. We cost $9 an hour. And they kind of switched it to say like, hey, listen, there are nurses shortages right now. It was exacerbated during the pandemic. But even stretching back before the pandemic, we needed more nurses. nurses, here we are to address that nurse shortage. And we can do stuff like post-op check-ins,
Starting point is 00:14:52 nutritional guidance, pharmacy calls. Nothing diagnostic necessarily, but there's some stuff that AI could probably jump in and help alleviate some of these shortages. Finally, there is a new most expensive drug ever, a gene therapy that costs $4.5 million per dose, about as much as you'd pay for a Miami Mansion or a 22nd Super Bowl spot. The drug is called Lend Meldie, and it treats an ultra-rare disease that affects only about 40 kids in the U.S. each year, but it is devastating and often fatal. The company that made the drug Orchard Therapeutics says the price reflects its clinical, economic, and societal value, and will actually save the health care system money over time. Toby, these new class of gene therapy drugs are
Starting point is 00:15:35 incredible. I mean, this is literally a lifesaver, but they've also come under fire for their eye-watering prices. Yeah, pharma companies working on gene therapy treatments in particular saying that we're actually saving money over time because we're not just treating a patient. We are curing a patient, and there's a big difference between those two. So over time, if you kind of extended out the care that the patient would have had to receive versus the upfront treatment that they're receiving, potentially that they're saving money. And again, a lot of development goes into these drugs, so they do have to monetize it because the total addressable market share is very small for a lot of these treatments. So it's going to be controversial, but if it can save lives, then maybe the price tag is
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Starting point is 00:17:59 Shares were up 6% this week ahead of a shareholder vote this morning that could approve the deal, which would allow Truth Social to start trading publicly next week. It has been a long and bumpy road for the public markets for Truth Social, filled with infighting, litigation, and other debacles. But if the deal is approved today, it could provide Trump with the financial windfall. he needs right now as he's racked up a legal bill in the hundreds of millions. Trump owns 60% of Truth Social and he could be in line for a 3.5 billion payout from his shares. And it is crazy to think that Truth Social could be Trump's savior because as a business, it is a disaster.
Starting point is 00:18:37 Since launching three years ago, it's pulled in just $5 million in revenue. But thanks to Trump's presidential candidacy, it's become a meme stock of sorts that's benchmarked against his odds for retake in the White House. So as he's progressed in his campaign, it's skyrocketed in value. It's not quite this perfect golden ticket, though, because even though truth social could go public as soon as next week, this still needs to be approved by shareholders. And then also, even if that happens, Trump technically needs to hold on to his shares for six months. There are some financial workarounds that you can do to get access to some of that $3.5 billion
Starting point is 00:19:10 windfall. But still, it is hilarious. I mean, you called it like, it's basically a proxy for his election chances at this point, because there are no underlying financials. It's an awful business that hasn't made any money so far. So it's purely speculation and kind of vibes at this point. Right. So it has an implied valuation right now of $6 billion, which is about the same as Reddit when it went public yesterday. So these two businesses have the same valuation, even though one is making a lot more money than the other. Clearly. My dog of the week is Gucci. Things are not all Gucci at Gucci right now.
Starting point is 00:19:44 Its parent company, the French luxury fashion group Caring, dropped 12% yesterday after revealed that sales at Gucci were down about 20% in the first quarter of the year. Gucci is known for its allowed in brash designs, a trend that hasn't been resonating with consumers recently, especially in the all-important Chinese market, which suffered a steeper than expected decline. Luxury sales in general have cooled, but competitors like LVMH and Hermes have been able to weatherstorm better due to LVMH's more expensive. expansive brand portfolio and the insanely long wait list for stuff like Hermes-Emmez's bags. Caring, on the other hand, is left with questions once again about its reliance on Gucci, which accounts for two-thirds of its sales. As Gucci go, Caring goes, and Gucci is fading, Neil. It's fading. I mean, it's funny because last year we talked about quiet luxury and we kind laughed about it. It's all tied up into the succession trends. But here we are seeing it actually
Starting point is 00:20:41 play out in real life. The loudbrash designs are. not resonating with consumers compared to the more understated elegance that other companies have perfected, and Gucci has to pivot hard to that if they want to sort of turn the ship around. Gucci is trying to turn the ship around because it just hired a new head designer, Sabato De Sarno, which is just a perfect head designer name for a fashion house like Gucci. His first collection in September did show a more elegant, more minimalistic aesthetic. So it is kind of indulging in that quiet luxury fashion trend that we've been seeing.
Starting point is 00:21:14 The jury is out still on if China will embrace quiet luxury, and that's like the all-important question here. But clearly they are trying to steer their ship towards more of that aesthetic that has been resonating with consumers. Yeah. The question is, is Gucci a canary in the coal mine for the entire luxury industry? Our Chinese consumers pulling back, they account for more than 30% of the revenues across luxury groups in general. So as they go, so goes the luxury market. Okay, Toby, you know how we're planning to launch a huge marketing blitz promoting Morning Brews Daily's use of AI so we can capitalize on the AI Gold Rush.
Starting point is 00:21:49 Oh, yeah. Tell me all about it. Well, I'm having second thoughts, to be honest. We might get in trouble. That's because the SEC is cracking down on a practice known as AI washing where companies tout their use of AI when they don't use AI. This week, the regulator find two investment advisors for AI washing, accusing one of them of saying, They have expert AI-driven forecast when that is just not true at all. The penalties weren't big, just a few hundred thousand dollars in fines, but they are big
Starting point is 00:22:15 in symbolism. SEC Chair Gary Gensler is holding up these offending companies as a warning for others who might be tempted to slip AI into their marketing materials because it is tempting. Whether you want to call it a bubble or not, AI is the name of the game on Wall Street right now, and investors will send you to the moon if you're using AI or dump you if you're getting left behind. Yeah, we've heard a lot of talk about greenwashing. the past where companies overstate how much they're doing to actually help the environment or something like that.
Starting point is 00:22:42 We also can't talk about AI washing or greenwash without remembering the blockchain craze of mid-2017 to 2018. Remember back in December of that year, Long Island Ice-D, who makes beverages, announced it was changing its name to Long Blockchain Corp. The stock totally went nuts. It jumped 200% on opening the day after that it changed its name. So we have seen this time and time again. Whatever new trend is kind of hitting, like, the retail investors, companies want to jump on that.
Starting point is 00:23:14 It's a very disingenuous way of doing so, and the SEC wants to get out in front of it. Yeah, I mean, there is such a strong incentive to say you're using AI. We've seen companies that have been on the forefront of AI, Nvidia, super microkes, companies you've never heard of but are in the data center business just absolutely skyrocket, while others like, say, Google, who have been viewed as stumbling in the AI space, have taken. A huge bunch. Apple as well. It's down 11% this year because it is seen as falling behind on AI. So there's a very strong incentive to say your AI, but you got to, but the SECA is saying you can't just make that bluster. It is all bluster. I never understand companies to do this, though, because it's, I mean, it's clearly like fraud on certain levels because of course, Long Island ICT is just the funniest one because no one for even one second believed that they were pivoting towards anything crypto. So I don't know, it seems very short-sized to me. And by no means are we changing our name to Mooring Brew Daily AI,
Starting point is 00:24:11 even though it does have a pretty good ring to it. Let's sail on into the weekend with a story about the mother of all shipwrecks. Now, to be crowned the mother of all shipwrecks, there's got to be some booty on board. And when the Spanish galleon San Jose went down in 1708, it was carrying a lot of booty. Due to some findings from Columbia Naval divers, we know that the 150-foot-long, 64-gun, three-massage ships treasure consists of 200 tons of silver and emeralds,
Starting point is 00:24:40 11 million gold coins, and an intact set of Chinese in porcelain pottery, all valued at a whopping, a staggering, $17 billion. And nearly a decade after his first discovered back in 2015, a recovery effort is finally underway off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia. obviously a shipwreck of that magnitude has garnered lots of attention over the years. Columbia, Spain, Bolivian indigenous groups, and even a U.S. salvage company have all tried to lay claim to it. But after an international court and UNESCO intervened, it looks like the Colombian government is spearheading an effort to recover it in the name of preservation not to profit. Neil, the ship can be covered by April, and I'm very excited about this.
Starting point is 00:25:22 I'm really excited. I mean, this, but it does sound very complex. This would be the biggest, most expensive. and most complicated underwater recovery mission in history. This is the big one. This is what salvage experts are drooling over all the time, like the San Jose. They need to get this up. But the problem here is that it is in tropical waters. That is much different than other shipwrecks that have been in northernly climbs with, you know, we know that cold things are preserved, cold temperatures preserve things
Starting point is 00:25:54 better than warm temperatures. They're very unsure of what's going to happen when they bring. these artifacts back up to the surface, they could completely disintegrate right away. They just don't know what happens. So the tropical waters definitely adds a very interesting curveball to this. Yeah, there's so many different angles that make this difficult current, sea temperature, the type of silt that it was submerged, and how far the cannons may be plunged into the seabed floor, even which animals are living down there have all been factored in as salvaged experts try to bring this up. Obviously, too, they haven't revealed the exact location of the ship either other than to
Starting point is 00:26:28 say it's 2,000 feet below sea level because as soon as you say the word 17 billion dollar shipwreck and then give a general location, you can bet that salvagers are going to go and try to get their piece of the booty. I think they intentionally said that it's 2,000 feet below because that is too deep for divers to reach to dissuade people from going and looking for it. But yeah, this is just a fun one. And I'm excited to learn about some of the cultural and historic takeaways that come away from it because there's certainly a lot that went down with the ship.
Starting point is 00:26:57 Yeah. Historians said this is. is not a treasure trove. This is one of the most incredible archaeological sites we've ever found and they wanted to use it to learn about the Spanish Empire added Zenith in 1708. Okay, that is all the time we have. Have a wonderful Friday and a great weekend. Toby, please say a quick prayer for everyone's brackets. Oh, God, putting me on the spot. May your brackets be strong. May your haters be wrong. May your upsets be correct. And may your parlies all connect. Amen. If you've got some free time coming out with us in our inbox, send an email to Morning Brew Daily at Morning
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