History won’t remember 2020 fondly. While Apple weathered the year well, the company experienced some notable troubles. TechRepublic’s Erik Eckel explores Apple’s worst moments of the year.
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Apple updates Privacy website alongside App Store ‘nutrition labels’
Apple has updated its privacy-related pages on its website, with the changes this time focusing on the App Store’s new privacy nutrition labels, notifications advising of the kind of user data the app …
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Apple launches new App Store privacy labels so you can see how iOS apps use your data
Apple is making good on its promise to provide more transparency around iOS app data collection with the launch of new privacy labels on the App Store. The company first announced its intention to …
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Why You Should Stop Using WhatsApp If You’re Taking These ‘Critical’ Risks
WhatsApp wins out on its user base alone. You can be fairly sure your colleagues, suppliers and customers will have it on their phones. But, ironically, when it comes to workplace tools, that users …
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Child spends $16K on iPad game in-app purchases
Over the summer of 2020, a six-year-old spent over $16,000 in the App Store, on in-app purchases for the iPad version of Sega’s “Sonic Forces.” …
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iPhone 12 Pro’s lidar feature: See it in action with this 3D-scanning app
House-scanning app Canvas works with lidar on the iPhone 12 Pro, but also scans without it. The difference is accuracy.
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Why bring Android apps to the Microsoft Store and Windows 10?
Microsoft’s ‘Project Latte’ is about bringing Android apps to the Microsoft Store and Windows 10. But why is Microsoft doing this? There are several theories.
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Have You Ever Heard of This App by Apple? Well, It’s Dying
While Google launches and discontinues products at a rate that no one can keep up with, Apple’s modern track record for sticking with its bets is virtually unparalleled. But nothing lasts forever.
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Apple’s app store is an illegal monopoly, rival Cydia claims in suit
The company behind Cydia, an iPhone app store that launched before Apple’s own App Store, has sued Apple arguing that Apple has monopolized the market for iOS app stores, violating antitrust law in …
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Jailbreak app store Cydia files its own antitrust lawsuit against Apple
Cydia, the original app store for jailbroken iPhones, has joined a wave of companies and regulators in targeting Apple over antitrust concerns. In a lawsuit it filed on Thursday, it accused Apple of …
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Apple is sued by rival over alleged App Store monopoly
Apple Inc was sued on Thursday by the creator of a once-popular app store that accused the iPhone maker of illegally monopolizing software distribution on its own operating system. Cydia, which was …
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Cydia sues Apple alleging its App Store has a monopoly
A new lawsuit from the creator of jailbroken iOS app store Cydia claims Apple used anti-competitive tactics that froze out Cydia and other would-be rivals when it created its App Store. Apple, the …
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Cydia, the ‘original iPhone App Store’ is suing Apple over antitrust claims
Cydia claims that Apple used its monopoly position of the App Store to push it out and ultimately render the jailbreaking store useless.
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Unauthorized App Store Cydia Sues Apple for Anticompetitive Behavior
Jay Freeman first released Cydia as an app store designed for the iPhone, offering apps a few months before Apple had its own …
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The ‘app store’ before there was an App Store wants to liberate your iPhone … again
Cydia allowed iPhone owners to install apps before there was ever an App Store. Apple successfully pushed Cydia into oblivion, but the company’s founder, Jay Freeman, is fighting back in a new lawsuit …
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WhatsApp criticizes Apple privacy labels as anti-competitive
Apple’s iMessage service isn’t subject to the same requirements, making it difficult for people to compare the apps directly.
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WhatsApp criticizes Apple’s new app privacy labels over iMessage inconsistency
WhatsApp has hit back at Apple over its new privacy labels for apps in the App Store, Axios reports, arguing that it’s unfair that they don’t appear to cover the pre-installed first-party service …
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