Tag: app store

Monday’s decision follows several months of behind the scenes wrangling between Epic and Apple. In an email correspondence between Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic Games, and several Apple …
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Apple Inc. was spared from having to immediately reinstate Epic Games Inc.’s Fortnite on its App Store, an early court victory for the iPhone maker in an intensifying battle over the tolls charged to …
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The court will likely side with Apple as the judge has said she’s not inclined to grant Epic Games relief with respect to Fortnite.
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WhatsApp does a brilliant job of securing voice and video calls from its iPhone and Android apps—and has recently increased this to enable eight-party calls. All calls are secured with end-to-end …
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From Procreate’s blank canvas to creative coloring books, these iPad drawing apps will unleash your inner digital artist.
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Apple’s row with WordPress over in-app purchases is over almost as soon as it began. WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg has revealed that Apple “re-reviewed” the WordPress iOS app and determined that it …
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Apple has clarified the situation with the WordPress iOS app, apologizing for the mistake of blocking developer updates to the app until they added in-app purchases, despite the app not including any …
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Apple’s efforts to prove that the App Store is a fair and level playing field doesn’t seem to be working.
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Apple Inc. on Saturday reversed course on a decision to force popular blogging platform WordPress to add in-app purchases to its app, a move that could help lessen tensions between Apple and …
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WordPress joins Epic Games, major news organizations, Spotify and Facebook in a growing chorus of companies objecting to Apple’s App Store policies.
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A WordPress developer had tweeted that Apple was going to cut off updates to the open-source iOS app unless it committed to supporting in-app purchases.
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Like many Android apps, many iOS apps transmit user passwords in plaintext or save the password unprotected on the phone, said Sam Bowne, an instructor at the City College of San Francisco. Others …
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The move comes on the heels of Fortnite maker Epic Games’ legal challenge to App Store fees and increasing antitrust scrutiny around Apple’s policies.
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In a letter to Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook on Thursday, a trade body representing the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and other publishers said the outlets are looking …
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I last reviewed Evernote in early 2017, when version 8 of its iOS app launched as a major redesign. I concluded then that one of the service’s greatest strengths, particularly when compared with …
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MacOS Big Sur is launching this fall, but Apple’s Mac Catalyst apps are still uneven. Which ones have improved, and which have taken a large step backward?
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The company could see nearly $60 billion in profits this year, over four times that of Walmart, one analyst said.
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