Epic Games and Apple dueled on Thursday in legal filings ahead of a trial over whether to break the iPhone maker’s tight grip on the App Store. Epic, the maker of the massively popular Fortnite game, …
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Apple says App Store security like ‘butter knife in gunfight’
A senior Apple engineer compared the defences of its App Store against malicious actors to “bringing a plastic butter knife to a gunfight”, according to legal documents released on Thursday. In the …
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Apple, Epic Unveil Lines of Attack in App Store Trial
Apple Inc. plans to argue at a trial that consumers and developers will suffer if Epic Games Inc. succeeds in upending how the iPhone maker’s app marketplace is run. The games maker will counter that …
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Apple may soon open a second Apple Store in Berlin
Berliners are reporting that construction on a second Apple Store is underway in the east of the city. Eight years after opening an Apple Store on Berlin’s famous Kurfurstendamm avenue …
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Apple and Epic just laid out how they’re going to fight about Apple’s control of the App Store
have been in a legal battle since last year after Epic Games tried to avoid Apple’s 30% App Store fee through a server software update and Apple kicked it off the store. On Wednesday, Apple and Epic …
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Work Continues on Apple’s Second Berlin Store in Eastern Part of German Capital
While the German cities of Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, and Frankfurt have more than one Apple Store, the capital Berlin has only one – Apple Kurfürstendamm, which opened in 2013. However, that looks set …
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Apple Reveals Line of Attack for App Store Trial Against Epic
Apple Inc. plans to argue at a trial that developers and consumers will suffer if Epic Games Inc. succeeds in upending how the iPhone maker’s app marketplace is run.
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Epic v Apple discovery details ‘Project Liberty’ scheme to skirt App Store with Fortnite
Findings of fact and conclusions of law filed by Apple with the court give us details of what to expect from the trial against Epic Games.
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Developer Highlights How Fake Apps Scam Users Via Apple’s In-App Purchasing System
The majority of reviews praise the app as being “perfect” and say it offers “the best experience ever.” The masses of fake reviews posted by the developer tricks Apple’s App Store algorithm into …
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This Week in Apps: Clubhouse clones, WWDC21, apps have their best-ever quarter
Apple’s App Store has been found to be hosting more … as it rotates through the best photos throughout the day. In the Premium version, you can add a date and time or other overlays and …
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Apple’s Find My app officially works with non-Apple devices
The end of 2020 came and went with Apple not providing many updates on the expansion. Then over this past weekend, the company published Find My Certification Asst to the App Store. The software …
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iPhone Apps Asking to Track You? Answers to Your iOS 14.5 Privacy Questions
Ad-tracking permission pop-ups are coming to nearly every app on your iPhone. Here’s why—and what’s happening behind the scenes. In the pop-up, app developers can say why they want to track users. The …
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How to clear cache, history, and cookies on iPhone for Safari and iOS apps, to free up space and improve speed
Apple offers several ways for iPhone users to clear their cache, whether it’s for Safari or iOS apps. Load Error When you clear cache on iPhone for Safari, it means all the files, images, passwords, …
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Apple’s Find My App will help you find lost products using your iPhone
Find My has been used to locate iPhones, iPads, and other Apple products for quite some time. In fact, Find My functionality was first added to the iPhone 3GS back in 2009. Now Find My can be used to …
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Google Chrome update FINALLY lands on iPhone after Apple fans miss out for months
GOOGLE paused all updates for iPhone and iPad owners for months on end, but that drought is finally over – with a new version of Chrome finally landing in the App Store. Here’s what you need to know.
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Your iPhone is about to get a whole lot better at protecting you from app tracking
Apple’s iOS 14.5 will make your iPhone a whole lot better at protecting you from app tracking. That’s through the new App Tracking Transparency tool.
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How to recover deleted text messages on your iPhone with iCloud, iTunes, or third-party app
… messages from your iPhone without having to overwrite your iPhone and lose other data, you can check to see if your iCloud account is backing up your texts or using a paid third-party app. Here’s …
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