TechSpot

JANUARY 29, 2024

Under Apple's newly published rules, some developers could see their 30-percent App Store fee shrink or disappear altogether. If an app maker decides to distribute through a third-party marketplace, they can avoid the so-called Apple tax, as long as they have less than a million installs. Read Entire Article

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 15, 2024

Apple has escalated its fight against the commercial spyware industry enabling state actors to conduct highly-targeted cyberattacks against journalists, activists, politicians, and other high-risk individuals around the world. The developers go to great lengths to remove any clues that might link the software back to them or their clients."

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It was 24-year-old software developer and entrepreneur Jacob Wright who posted the image of his wedding day on X. His decision to sport Apple's $3,500 headset, and his wife's less-than-ecstatic face, brought plenty of attention – it went viral and has been viewed over 357,000 times by X users alone. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

APRIL 18, 2023

Security researcher MalwareHunterTeam recently discovered what appears to be a version of LockBit ransomware targeting Apple M1 systems. Evidence suggests it doesn't work yet and is still quite early, but the ransomware gang says it's in active development. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

APRIL 18, 2024

According to Testut, iGBA was a knockoff of GBA4iOS, which he developed while still in high school. Testut expressed frustration that Apple approved the clone (despite it being filled with ads and trackers) while his own app had been stuck in the approval process for well over a month. Read Entire Article

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Dataconomy

MARCH 8, 2024

Apple, famous for its tightly controlled App Store experience on iOS and iPadOS devices, recently implemented a series of last-minute policy changes that have generated a wave of mixed reactions from the developer community. Apple App Store changes Apple wants to increase the transparency surrounding how in-app purchase options work.

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TechSpot

MARCH 19, 2021

Last month, Kosta Eleftheriou, the mobile app developer behind the popular Apple Watch keyboard app FlickType for the visually impaired wrote a scathing Twitter thread on the current state of the App Store. In it, Eleftheriou criticized Apple for not properly enforcing App Store rules, which has allowed several scam.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bloomberg correspondent and reliable leaker Mark Gurman spoke to multiple anonymous insiders who said Apple engineers have shifted focus from feature development to quality control. Bosses announced the delay in an internal memo last week. According to the sources, early versions of iOS/iPad 18 and macOS 15 are riddled with bugs.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The ruling essentially says that Apple can no longer stop developers from pointing customers towards payment methods outside of Apple's own App Store. This comes mere days after Apple decided to let some apps direct customers to subscriptions outside its App Store in response to a Japanese antitrust investigation.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of Justice has leveled a major antitrust case against Apple, accusing the iPhone maker of wielding consumer privacy and security as an "elastic shield" to justify anticompetitive business practices. If left unchallenged, Apple will only continue to strengthen its smartphone monopoly." Attorney General Merrick Garland. "We

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TechSpot

MARCH 21, 2024

The US Department of Justice, and 16 state and district attorneys general, filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple this week, alleging its practices in the smartphone market constitute an illegal attempt at monopolization. Read Entire Article

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Tech Republic Big Data

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Apple researchers also helped develop a technique for creating realistic-looking avatars from videos.

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TechSpot

MARCH 12, 2024

On Tuesday, Apple announced a few more changes to its Digital Markets Act (DMA) policies. The changes give developers more app distribution options, including selling and providing the software from their independent website. It has also loosened how developers are allowed to offer in-app promotions. Read Entire Article

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Tech Republic

JANUARY 29, 2024

The EU says the DMA keeps markets fair and open; Apple says the DMA introduces security problems. Apple is leveling fees against independent app stores.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple today announced two major changes to how it handles App Store disputes with third-party developers. The first is that Apple will now allow developers to appeal a specific violation of an App Store guideline, and that there will also be a separate process for challenging the guideline itself. without IAP!!

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MARCH 7, 2024

Citing the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Union (EU) has requested “further explanations” from Apple regarding its decision to close down the developer account of Fortnite publisher Epic Games. Apple says it does not trust Epic, citing the game developer’s history of untrustworthy actions.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Image: Apple. After it confirmed that future Macs will be powered by Apple Silicon, the company also announced that developers will soon have access to a Developer Transition Kit that will take the form of a Mac mini. Image: Apple. The DTK must be returned to Apple at the conclusion of the program, however.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Tim Cook, Apple CEO, and Deirdre O’Brien, senior vice president of retail, launch sales of the Apple Vision Pro in New York City this week. Apple Photo) First up this week on the GeekWire Podcast: an inside look at developing software for the Apple Vision Pro spatial computing headset.

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TechSpot

MARCH 20, 2024

Apple introduced Ceramic Shield, which was developed by Corning, on the iPhone 12 in 2020 and has used it on each new model since. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

On Wednesday, Apple announced a reduction to its longstanding App Store commission rate, one of the most substantial changes to how iOS developers earn money in the history of the iPhone maker’s digital app marketplace, as part of a new program for small businesses. Apple did spell out some of the program’s rules today.

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TechSpot

MARCH 13, 2024

The information comes from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who reports that the chip was being developed by the Apple Silicon team, who designs the processors for the company's iPhones and MacBooks. Gurman referred to the new chip as the car's "AI brain," noting that its development was nearly complete before Apple.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In an uncharacteristically free, all-access interview to CNBC's Katie Tarasov, Apple executives showed off the company's Silicon Valley chip lab, where engineers in lab coats test each component meticulously before approving its use in the company's products. Tarasov also spoke to the head of Apple silicon, Johny Srouji, who claimed.

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The Verge

JUNE 6, 2021

Apple needs a distraction, and it needs one fast. On Monday, the company will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC 2021 ) during one of the most fraught moments for developer relations in Apple history. While Apple emerged from the Epic v. We treat every developer the same.”

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 16, 2023

An Apple Store employee will be able to put a box of unopened iPhones on a pad-like device. The system will then somehow be able to turn the iPhones on, have them download and install an update, then turn the handsets back off once complete. Read Entire Article

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Kitaboo

JANUARY 29, 2024

For any eBook developer, creating eBooks that meet the diverse needs of people in academic institutions can be time-consuming and complex. To help them deliver in a timely fashion, SDKs have started playing a crucial role in eBook development. Case Studies: Successful SDK Use in eBooks Amazon Apple IV. to the eBook.

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TechSpot

MARCH 7, 2024

Apple has terminated Epic Games Sweden's developer account, banning the company from releasing any iOS software on or off the Apple App Store. The decision comes mere weeks after Europe's new Digital Markets Act (DMA) pushed the Cupertino giant to let Epic start an alternate app store. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It has been an open secret for years that Apple was working to develop an electric car with autonomous capabilities. Now it seems those efforts have been shelved, according to an announcement from Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch, a vice president in charge of the effort. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

Mobile app developer Kosta Eleftheriou, who publicly called out Apple earlier this year for negligence with regard to policing iOS scams and copycat apps on the App Store, has filed a lawsuit against the iPhone maker in California. It details the development and release timeline of Eleftheriou’s Apple Watch keyboard app FlickType.

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TechSpot

MARCH 18, 2024

Apple researchers have developed MM1, a new approach for training large language models (LLMs) that incorporate both textual and visual information.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Despite comparisons to VR and AR devices, Apple's Vision Pro is neither. It is not even natively capable of VR or AR applications, although clever developers like Resolution Games. Not once has the tech giant referred to it as such, opting to call it a "spatial computer" or "spatial-reality" headset. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2022

PUBG -maker Krafton filed a big lawsuit Monday : it’s suing the developer of two mobile games that it accuses of copying PUBG: Battlegrounds , the hit PC battle royale shooter, and it’s suing Apple and Google for distributing those games on their app stores. Apple and Google didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.

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TechSpot

APRIL 15, 2024

Apple either removed it for its own reasons or the developer of the GBA4iOS. Frankly, another unauthorized software related to Nintendo getting taken down is par for the course and not all that surprising. However, it is notable that iGBA's takedown originated from something other than Nintendo's DMCA legal hounds.

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The Verge

JANUARY 10, 2022

App Store developers have earned more than $260 billion since the store launched in 2008, according to a Monday press release from Apple. Apple said last January that developers had earned more than $200 billion since the launch of the App Store, so the new figure shared Monday indicates developers earned $60 billion in 2021.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

AUGUST 27, 2021

Developers are debating Apple’s statement of clarification around the App Store in resolution of a class action suit brought against it by developers in 2019. Since it introduced the App Store more than a decade ago, Apple has always insisted that payments be primarily made within its ecosystem.

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TechSpot

MARCH 22, 2024

A recently published paper describes a flaw primarily affecting Apple Silicon that allows attackers to circumvent end-to-end encryption through a side-channel attack on the company's devices. Anyone developing encryption software for Macs likely needs to rethink their security procedures. Read Entire Article

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GeekWire

MARCH 21, 2024

Justice Department’s landmark antitrust lawsuit Thursday morning against Apple, which accuses the company of illegally maintaining an iPhone smartphone monopoly, reads at times like a technology history lesson. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces the Fire Phone in June 2014. GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) The U.S.

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Gizmodo

MAY 31, 2020

Apple has paid developer Bhavuk Jain a $100,000 bounty for finding a serious bug in its “Sign in with Apple” login system that could have allowed malicious actors to take over a user’s account on specific websites and apps. Read more.

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