We’ve been seeing growing interest in the formation of Apple Store unions by retail staff, frustrated by stagnant wages at a time of rising inflation, or other working conditions issues.
Apple loses director of machine learning over its office return policy
Last week, a group of Apple employees wrote an open letter criticizing the company’s hybrid work-from-home policy, which requires employees to be at the office three days a week starting May 23rd. Now …
Match Group takes Google app store war to court in US
Tinder parent Match Group on Monday filed a lawsuit in a federal court in San Francisco accusing Google of abusing monopoly power at its Play Store that sells digital content for Android-powered …
Tinder parent company sues Google over app store fees
Match Group, the owner of dating apps including Tinder, is suing Google over the fees it charges developers that take payments through their apps.
Match sues Google after being refused the same app-store treatment as Spotify
Match Group Inc. sued Google on Monday, alleging the search giant broke antitrust laws with billing rules for the Android app store, the latest salvo in …
Match Sues Google Over App Store Payment Rules
Match Sues Google Over App Store Payment Rules …
Tinder owner sues Google in ‘last resort’ to avoid app-store booting
calling the action a “last resort” to prevent Tinder and its other apps from being booted off the Play store for refusing to share up to 30% of their sales. Google said Match was attempting to …
Match Group sues Google over ‘monopoly power’ in Android app payments
The parent company of dating apps Tinder, Match and OkCupid is suing Google, alleging that the company exerts too much control over payments through its Google Play app marketplace. Google lured app …
Lumos wants to build an app store for the enterprise
“I can delete what I want. I can go to settings and disable location sharing for Facebook. The App Store on Apple made this such a beautiful integrated platform. But if you look at the web, you have …
Match Group sues Google, alleging monopoly in app store
Match Group (MTCH) has sued Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) over its Play Store billing system, saying the tech giant has “monopolized the Google Play Store and is now abusing its …
First U.S. Apple store union election is set for early June
The first-ever U.S. union election at an Apple retail store is slated for early June. Apple retail workers in Atlanta released a statement in the aftermath of filing for a union e …
Apple’s first Apple Store in Japan will be demolished in late 2022
Apple Ginza was opened in 2003, and the building it is in will be demolished starting in September 2022. Apple Ginza was originally opened on November 30, 2003. Based in the Sayegusa Building in Tokyo …
A historic Apple store is set for demolition later this year
Apple’s first-ever store opened outside the U.S. has been marked for demolition. The Sayegusa building housing Apple Store Ginza in Tokyo will be demolished in September. It is to be replaced by a new …
Atlanta employees to vote on forming first unionized Apple retail location in US
Metro Atlanta Apple employees are pushing to unionize. In April, employees at the Apple store in Cumberland Mall filed a request to hold a union election with the National Labor […] …
Apple Music is Sometimes Replacing Other Apps in the Dock When Installed From App Store
Apple Music appears to be affected by a bug that is causing the app to install itself directly into the dock when downloaded from the App Store, …
A second Apple Store files to hold a union election
Apple store employees in Towson, Maryland have organized a union and petitioned to hold an official union election. This marks the third Apple retail location in recent weeks that has taken …
Elon Musk called out Apple’s App Store fee, saying it’s ‘like having a 30% tax on the Internet’
Elon Musk is criticizing Apple’s App Store commission of up to 30% on paid apps and in-app purchases. He called it “a 30% tax on the Internet,” saying it’s “literally 10 times higher than it should be …