The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Apple’s cloud ban and Fortnite feud have made it gaming’s latest villain Apple has always had a complicated relationship with the game industry, but this month that relationship slid into a bitter and very public legal and regulatory war that could shape the future of iPhone apps. Join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming ‘1984.’”.

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The Verge

APRIL 7, 2021

Last week, Apple Arcade received its biggest update since launching back in 2019. Apple Arcade has finally matured into something close to a Netflix for mobile games. Since the beginning, the pitch for Apple Arcade has been entirely centered on quality. Subscribers get all of those games for a flat monthly fee.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Kandji, an Apple device management platform for enterprises, has raised $100 million in a series C round of funding. Read More.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

While we’ve seen some claims that Apple will price-match up to 10 percent for products bought at certain major retailers, there is no official policy on the company’s website. from Dell, HP, Apple, or Lenovo. Clearance sales and other storewide or category promotions are excluded. There are a few things to make note of here.

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The Verge

MAY 7, 2021

Apple the trial for you! Roblox, explained Apple’s marketing manager Trystan Kosmynka, was an app. A screenshot of Roblox on the Apple App Store, as of May 7 at 8PM ET. But here’s the problem for Apple: if Roblox is a game, then it’s fairly easy for Epic to compare Fortnite to it. The app calls these “worlds.”).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Apple’s newest smart speaker is way more affordable but still chasing Amazon and Google Two and a half years ago, Apple finally entered the smart speaker market with the HomePod. Apple was forced to lower its price , and other retailers had to discount it aggressively in order to get anyone to buy it. HomePod mini sound quality.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Amazon said its best-selling categories were home, fashion, toys, beauty, and Amazon devices. Best-selling items included Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick, and Apple AirPods as well as Hasbro Gaming CONNECT 4, Burt’s Bees Christmas Gifts, apparel from Champion, apparel and shoes from New Balance, the Amazon Smart Plug, Echo Show, and Nintendo Switch.

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

Apple’s iPhone 12 lineup maintained enormously strong demand from consumers from January through March, according to the company’s fiscal Q2 earnings posted today. Apple reported record March quarter revenue of $89.6 An all-new MacBook Pro is expected to follow in the coming weeks — likely at Apple’s WWDC keynote.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Apple’s big bet on moving away from Intel CPUs and AMD GPUs in favor of its own Apple Silicon chips is paying off in meaningful ways, and if you can afford one of these machines, you will be very happy with them. It feels like every other scissor-switch Apple keyboard I’m used to, which is welcome news. They’re great.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

An article earlier this week in The Information reported that Apple shared in internal meetings that it is planning to launch an AR headset in 2022 and AR glasses in 2023. Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that he thinks that “everyone” will use AR and he doesn’t think “anything will be untouched” by the technology. iGlasses are coming.

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GeekWire

JUNE 11, 2023

Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 4, 2023.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 17, 2016

Google, Apple, Facebook, Snapchat and others who offer video calling: take a page from the enterprise. Apple's Facetime doesn't. Read more Categories: video calling. Google this week added yet another chat app to the mix with Duo, a smartphone-only video chat application that bridges the gap between iOS and Android devices.

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GeekWire

APRIL 29, 2021

Even as life returns to some level of normalcy in parts of the world, Amazon’s growth continues to accelerate, much like other tech powerhouses such as Microsoft , Facebook and Apple , which all reported giant revenue gains this week. That category brought in $6.9 ” Shares were up more than 4% in after-hours trading.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

By inadvertently playing into analysts’ narrow definition of products and categories, vendors can become distracted from their real goal – pursuing meaningful, valuable, and unique innovation. Further, they often track technology categories that can quickly become outdated, even as analysts struggle to update them.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Other tech giants including Microsoft , Apple , and Meta also reported earnings this week. Physical stores: The category, which includes Whole Foods and Amazon Go stores, posted revenue of $5.1 Amazon stock is up more than 50% in the past 12 months, among the “Magnificent 7” tech stocks helping boost the S&P 500.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

billion despite ongoing inflation as categories such as electronics, toys, and exercise equipment posted strong numbers. and Disney Encanto; gaming consoles and games; drones; Apple MacBooks; and Dyson products (airwrap and vacuum). Funko’s toys were one of the hot sellers on Black Friday, according to Adobe Analytics.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2021

Apple made waves this week by announcing a $100 million settlement with small app developers who sued the company. Apple’s settlement includes several new policies that it says “clarif[y]” the App Store’s rules. Developers can set new price points for apps, and Apple promises to give them more information about how appeals work.

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GeekWire

MARCH 13, 2024

Challenges in building Yoodli: We are creating a new category and there isn’t an AI speech coach out there. So we’re creating a category while trying to facilitate behavior change on a deep-rooted human insecurity. An AI-driven approach to training: I take inspiration from my Apple Watch. That’s wicked hard!

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GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2021

Looking out four to five years, Li said new online communities fueled by budding creators will emerge in “every category of human creation.” ” Subscribe to 2025: Tomorrow, Today in Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Spotify , Stitcher or any podcast app.

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The Verge

JANUARY 14, 2022

Apple says App Store developers have earned more than $260 billion. Alleged Apple App Store scammer AmpMe lowers prices and says it’ll investigate its ‘consultants’. Alleged Apple App Store scammer AmpMe lowers prices and says it’ll investigate its ‘consultants’. Google exec says Apple is ‘holding back’ customers who text.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Korea’s regulator said that today’s ruling also applies to these other categories. The new law requires major platform owners like Google and Apple to allow developers to use third-party payment systems in their apps. Google has previously said that its AFAs are necessary to ensure that apps work across more Android phones.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

While the policy itself will not change, the aggressive enforcement approach will put AWS in the same category as major platforms like Facebook and YouTube. The move comes on the heels of a similar shift from Apple, which recently announced a controversial system to proactively scan for child abuse imagery in iCloud photos.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s a distinction that’s become important in light of the Epic vs Apple trial , which focused on the often blurry lines between the two categories, and hence the App Store rules they have to follow.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We’re in 36 different categories and probably 30 of those are chipsets, and they’re not 15 chipsets that go into 36 categories. We keep adding categories all the time. We give them a bonus and they move on to something else, but it’s a very dynamic place for new category development and it’s happening throughout the company.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 18, 2022

“Mobile is the biggest category of gaming, and it’s an area where we’ve not had a major presence before this transaction,” Spencer said. Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: Vanguard and Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War were the top-selling video games in the U.S. Among the big U.S.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

There’s an Apple event next week , and it’s looking fairly likely that we’ll see updated models of the iPad Pro and perhaps the iPad Mini. It was also part of a larger category called “netbooks,” and we were all made to know what netbooks were. Apple’s coming event this week is actually about netbooks. Was she joking?

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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2023

Notable spinouts include Kitt.ai (acquired by Baidu in 2017); Xnor.ai (acquired by Apple in 2020); and Lexion (raised $20 million last month). AI2 startups have gone on to raise more than $160 million in venture capital, and their combined valuation is more than $800 million. “They’ve created a whole new category of product.”

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Looking at that list, there are two different categories of things here: features that enhance or support journalism and news in some fashion (which are, broadly speaking, good) and features that make the Twitter app better or otherwise easier to use, which I have more of an issue with. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

JULY 16, 2020

Read on to brush up on the finalists in a dozen categories, along with pictures of last year’s winners in each category. Xnor AI acquired by Apple. Judges look over nominees in the UX Design of the Year category for the GeekWire Awards. New category for 2020). Assurance acquired by Prudential for $2.35

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Choosing popular publications is great, but they risk losing their book among millions of other books in the same category. . An electronic book store or eBook store is a marketplace that sells eBooks of various categories from different authors. . Amazon KDP and Apple iBooks are some examples of electronic bookstores. .

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

Apple estimated that her unit would arrive between May 26th and June 2nd. It’s some of the fastest growth rates this category has seen in a long, long time,” said Michael Lagoni, CEO of Stackline. When it came time to check out, however, Kozuch realized she might have to wait much longer than she’d hoped.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 28, 2020

The internal pick was, by many measures, the right choice for Microsoft, just as Apple successfully transitioned to operating executive Tim Cook following the untimely death of co-founder Steve Jobs. Both Apple and Microsoft — who’ve grown significantly in recent years — looked internally for their next CEOs.

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The Verge

JANUARY 12, 2021

And another company, Intel, is trying to drum up excitement for its processors even as we’re still goggle-eyed at the performance Apple achieved on its own chips. Verge Deals is a weekly email rounding up some of the best deals on gadgets our commerce team has found. One company seemed to be doing its very best to try, though: TCL.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

In any case, none of these solutions offer truly end-to-end encryption and there’s no indication Apple is even faintly interested in supporting it on the iPhone. It would be really nice if, as they have done with exposure tracing, Apple and Google could work together to create a system that protects user privacy in messaging as well.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Apple announced its new M1 chip, which, if the company’s claims about performance gains are to be believed, could redefine our expectations for laptop processors. We’ve reached out to Apple for comment on these reports.). Apple redesigned many app icons to make them look more like their iOS counterparts. Should you update?

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Haley claims this “exceeds that paid to the board of directors of Apple, Inc. That policy would “prioritize reinvestment in core franchises such as Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, ” while “reducing speculative bets on non-core video game franchises in hyper-competitive categories.”

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A starter pack for exercise Apple Fitness Plus has been out for a couple of months now, and a few of us here at The Verge have been spending that time running it (and ourselves) through its paces. a-month service offers a decent array of exercise videos with an added bonus: integration with the sensors on an Apple Watch. Ashley Carman.

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