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Apple's App Store Awards honor standout apps and games of 2022

TechSpot

iPhone App of the Year honors go to BeReal, the French social media app that challenges users to capture and share a photo from their front and rear camera simultaneously. The catch is that you only have a two-minute window to snap your shot, and you don't know when that.

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Analysis: Microsoft’s big hires foreshadow bold new move into consumer AI

GeekWire

Several years ago, we saw Microsoft flirt briefly with acquiring TikTok, the popular social media app that has captured the attention of millions of young users. But young consumer audiences use various social networking tools — Instagram, TikTok, and others —that typically have nothing to do with Microsoft.

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How the “Move Fast” era of Facebook led to one of its biggest scandals

Vox

That era, in the early 2010s, was Mark Zuckerberg’s first big attempt at making Facebook much bigger than just a social network and more like a platform for developers akin to Windows. Our first episode, on the creation of the News Feed , told the story of Zuckerberg’s original vision for social media.

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Documents unearthed by Congress offer new window into Amazon’s war against one-time rival

GeekWire

Members of the House subcommittee on antitrust grilled Bezos on a heated price war Amazon fought with Diapers.com — and internal documents released by the panel Wednesday provide a window into the e-commerce giant’s strategy at the time. Jeff Bezos calls social media a ‘nuance destruction machine’ during antitrust hearing.

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The Apple Watch is being held back by Siri

The Verge

Apple is set to unveil the new Apple Watch Series 6 this week. It’s also rumored to be creating a new, lower-cost version of the Apple Watch instead of just dropping the price on an older model. The Apple Watch is, without a doubt, a health device first. Anyway, I’m glad the Apple Watch finally found its place.

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Apple stumbled into a war with the gaming industry, and the future of iOS is at stake

The Verge

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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Apple's Privacy Policy Cost Snap, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube an Estimated $9.85 Billion in Revenue

Gizmodo

With its App Tracking Transparency policy launched in April, Apple overhauled its iPhone lineup’s privacy settings to give users more control over their data. That decision cost Snap, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube an estimated $9.85 billion in lost revenue in the second half of this year, the Financial Times reports. Read more.

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