Category: APPS

Apple does a lot of baffling things in the way they run the App Store. It’s easy to just sit there and be frustrated with the way that Apple makes decisions and then cuts off any sort of alternative for users to counteract that. But I think we aren’t …
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Pokémon Go may be the popular face of augmented reality (AR) apps—upon its debut last July, the game became an instant international obsession—but it was hardly the first AR effort. Augmented reality, which has been around the edges of popular …
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Nothing is more annoying than seeing an iPhone app that is stuck at “waiting” during installation. You could cancel the download and retry, but the issue may still persist. There are many different reasons why this problem may happen, but luckily …
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Whether you’re wearing an original Apple Watch or the updated Series 2, you’re going to want to know the best apps out there for making the most of your newfangled smartwatch. However, to find them, you typically have to trawl through thousands of …
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Picture-in-picture animations lead the way to exclusive original content. Vevo is updating its app for fourth-gen Apple TVs, fusing a swish new user interface—complete with picture-in-picture animations—with streamlined access to original content …
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Apple is apparently in some hot water in China over some changes the company is making to a popular mobile app feature. Apple has for nearly a decade shared revenue on all purchases with app developers. In most cases, the split is 70-30, with app …
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Apple has risked upsetting customers in China by revealing plans to take a percentage of donations that are sent to content creators on social media, via the “tip” function of local apps like WeChat. Apple previously told developers to disable the …
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Apple will soon change the way users access iCloud data through third-party apps. Apple’s iCloud is an Internet-based data repository that syncs information across user devices. App-specific passwords are designed to provide a layer of protection to the …
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Around 1,500 developers, mainly twentysomething males, have been tasked with increasing user engagement through new ‘mini-programs’ on WeChat that look and operate much like apps on Apple Inc’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems – but are …
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Apple is already not performing exceptionally well in China and now it seems to have landed itself in hot waters once again. This time, however, Cupertino’s troubles do not pertain to slumping iPhone sales but the change in an App Store policy that has …
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Apple is reportedly cracking down on social networks in China providing payment services between users, ordering the creators of popular messaging apps to disable ‘tip’ functions in order to comply with App Store rules, in what may be a move by Apple to …
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The Google Assistant for iOS is now available at the Apple App Store for free. To get started, press the mic icon or start typing. Some things your Assistant — a Siri competitor — can help with: Make quick phone calls (e.g. “Call Mom.”) Send text …
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“Apple’s App Store raked in 60% of mobile app sales last year, despite having a smaller base of users than Alphabet’s Google Play store, BMO Capital Markets reported Wednesday,” Patrick Seitz reports for Investor’s Business Daily. “Apple’s …
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The App Store is full of brilliant apps – and plenty aren’t available on Android. Check out the best iPhone-only apps to make Android users jealous. The iPhone runs iOS, Apple’s own propriety operating system and Apple has its own SDK (software …
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Microsoft announced at the Build developer conference that Apple would bring iTunes to the Windows Store, and now more developers seem to at least plan on doing the same thing in the near future. WhatsApp is one of the companies that are very close to …
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While Apple and Spotify were called out on stage for porting their apps to the Windows Store but the wind direction seems to suggest another pretty big name is joining the league as well. And that’s, WhatsApp. While the messaging giant had already made …
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Windows Store had a pretty good month so far. At Build 2017 last week, Microsoft announced that Apple is bringing its iTunes app to the Windows Store — making it the company’s first to be available from the Windows Store. And earlier this month …
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