But grasping the opportunity to go truly global and extend your reach far beyond the app store duopoly dominated by Google and Apple – while it brings massive benefit – can also be a mammoth task. This is where a new app publishing playbook from …
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Yelp integrates Apple Pay support in iOS app update
PayPal’s process is perhaps closest to Apple Pay, though payments require authentication via a passcode or password. Yelp is a free 184MB download from the App Store.
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Meet the Australian whizz kid, 12, who’s already created five apps and caught the eyes of Facebook and Apple – and he won’t let his autism stand in his way
He’s just 12 years old but has already created five apps, met the US Secretary of State and caught the attention of tech giants Apple and Facebook. But Hamish Finlayson is no ordinary boy. The young developer has autism, but uses his experience with the …
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A Few Good Apps Won’t Save Apple AR – The Future Will
These first few weeks of new AR-enabled apps have brought us time wasters and games with a little gee-whiz and a dollop of disappointment. It is pretty surprising Apple didn’t have a few flagship apps ready to go at launch. Good opportunity for Apple …
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Augmented Reality Apps To Use on Your iPhone or iPad
The first generation of AR apps is available in Apple’s App Store, allowing millions of iPhone and iPad users to view three-dimensional computer-generated graphics on top of a user’s real-world view. With iOS 11, anyone with an iPhone 6 or more current …
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WhatsApp Android Beta Debuts New Apple-Inspired Emoji
WhatsApp used Apple’s iOS emoji across all supported platforms until recently, as the leading mobile messaging app has now released its own set of emoji as part of its latest Android beta version. The characters still seem to be somewhat inspired by …
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The 20 best Apple TV apps for your living room
You’re missing out if you haven’t checked out these Apple TV apps. Buying an Apple TV has been one of my best home purchase decisions. It gives you access to an impressive amount of TV shows, movies, and videos, whether or not you have a cable or …
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The 100 best iPad apps for your Apple tablet (October)
The iPad is still the king of tablets — especially the new, $330 9.7-inch iPad released in April — and there are a number of apps in the App Store that were built specifically for the device. We’ve been curating various best-of lists for years now …
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Uber app can silently record iPhone screens
Uber has announced that it will remove code from its iPhone app that would let the ride-hailing service record screen activity even when the app was closed. The code was discovered by security researcher Will Strafach, who found that Uber had been granted …
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The 100 best iPhone apps (October 2017)
Apple’s iPhone is the most popular smartphone in the world, and we want you to get the most out of yours. From dating apps to QR scanners, your phone is capable of nearly anything these days, and some apps just rise above the rest. We’ve recently cut …
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Secret backdoor in Uber’s app granted by Apple lets the firm record your iPhone’s screen without you knowing
An ‘unprecedented’ level of access granted to Uber’s iPhone app means the firm could be watching your every move. Apple has given the company special powers that could be used to record a user’s screen and access other sensitive data without their …
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WhatsApp is working on its own Emojis, new emojis available on Beta
Keeping that in mind, WhatsApp has introduced refreshed emojis on its messaging app. So far, Facebook-owned WhatsApp was using emojis from Apple, but now they’ve rolled out their own emojis for Beta testing. The new set of emojis from WhatsApp are …
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WhatsApp ditches Apple’s emoji to unveil its own unnecessary alternative
WhatsApp will no longer rely on Apple for its emoji: The Facebook-owned company has introduced its own set of emoticons – that nobody asked for. Despite taking the initiative to put together its own designs, WhatsApp certainly didn’t hesitate to draw …
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WhatsApp’s new emoji look a lot like Apple’s
With over 1.2 billion monthly users, WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world. But it’s only now that the company has decided to abandon its previously used Apple emojis in favor of its own custom set, which looks remarkably like the …
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WhatsApp launches new emoji set, Messenger discontinues its own
WhatsApp has now launched their own emoji set that looks a bit like Apple’s own while Facebook has decided to discontinue the relatively new Messenger ones and just use one for both the main app and Messenger. Brands like Facebook and Twitter have been …
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WhatsApp introduces a range of emojis – but can you tell them apart from Apple’s?
“After a long history of using Apple’s emojis on all platforms including Android and the web, WhatsApp looks to be taking the direction of Facebook and Twitter in using their own custom emoji set within the app,” the website Emojipedia wrote after …
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Apple approves a dating app with a racist ad and an income filter for its App Store
A Facebook post promoting a dating app was so explicit about its racism and discriminatory stance on foreign workers that many around the world thought it may have been fake. It’s now available for some users on Apple’s App Store. Herbert Eng, the founder …
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