The Verge

JANUARY 2, 2021

Amphetamine’s developer says Apple told him to change the app’s name and remove the pill from its logo. The developer of Amphetamine, an app that prevents Macs from going into sleep mode, says Apple told him it violated App Store guidelines, even though it’s been in the App Store since 2014, and has nothing to do with drug use.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2020

Apple on Monday announced that its new App Store appeals process, first revealed at WWDC in June , is now live, meaning developers can challenge Apple over whether their app is in fact violating one of its guidelines. Apple, in response, held up the company’s bug fixes and update capability.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

Apple has removed Epic Games’ battle royale game Fortnite from the App Store after the developer on Thursday implemented its own in-app payment system that bypassed Apple’s standard 30 percent fee. Epic agreed to the App Store terms and guidelines freely and we’re glad they’ve built such a successful business on the App Store.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

Apple is standing behind its decision to reject future updates for the iOS app of new email service Hey. The letter is signed by company’s App Review Board, but Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller made similar comments in an interview with TechCrunch published today. Apple says the Hey iOS app must include in-purchases.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Apple has responded to Epic Games’ latest salvo in the ongoing dispute between the two companies. Epic had said that Apple is threatening to revoke its access to iOS and Mac developer tools by removing it from the Apple Developer Program unless it cuts a rule-violating payment processing option that it snuck into Fortnite. “We

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has issued a series of public comments on his personal Twitter account regarding the legal fight the Fortnite creator initiated with Apple yesterday, following the iPhone maker’s removal of the game from the App Store. Rather, he says Epic is fighting for “the basic freedoms of all consumers and developers.”. “At

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 11, 2021

On Friday, Apple filed an appeal challenging Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers's ruling that it violated anti-steering laws by not allowing developers to link to external payment platforms. Rogers said that Apple must change its guidelines and let software makers link to external payment platforms.

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The Verge

JUNE 7, 2021

Apple is warning fraudsters it’s coming for their entire accounts. Apple already had a section titled “5.6 Developer Code of Conduct” that warned devs not to “prey on users or attempt to rip off customers” among a laundry list of other bad behavior. These three sections of the Developer Code of Conduct are brand-new: 5.6.2

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says Apple must comply with an order to let developers add links and buttons to external payment options, denying the company’s motion for a stay. This will be the first time Apple has ever allowed live links in an app for digital content. Apple has mostly praised the ruling in Epic v.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

Apple has officially terminated the Epic Games account on the App Store on Friday, following its Fortnite dispute and ongoing legal battle with the game studio over in-app payments in the battle royale game, the company confirms to The Verge. Instead they repeatedly submit Fortnite updates designed to violate the guidelines of the App Store.

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The Verge

APRIL 23, 2022

Apple may be cracking down on apps that no longer receive updates. In a screenshotted email sent to affected developers, titled “App Improvement Notice,” Apple warns it will remove apps from the App Store that haven’t been “updated in a significant amount of time” and gives developers just 30 days to update them.

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The Verge

AUGUST 26, 2021

A proposed agreement between Apple and a class-action lawsuit representing US app developers includes a $100 million payout from Apple. The change is a shift to the anti-steering policy that has been a big point of contention between Apple and its critics for years. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 10, 2024

While Apple isn’t pioneering this field, it anticipates that this will be a significant leap forward in computing. The company is staking its claim in this domain with the launch of its new AR/VR headset, the Apple Vision Pro. Apple is actively promoting “spatial computing” as the go-to term for this experience.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Apple says it won’t let Epic Games back in the App Store until they agree to “play by the same rules as everyone else.” Apple, however, maintains it’s under no obligation to let Epic in the App Store at all. “As Until Epic agrees to comply with the App Store’s app review guidelines, Apple isn’t going to consider its request.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 4, 2020

In a recently published support document, Apple outlined several guidelines and parameters for third-party developers of browsers and email apps, which they'll need to comply with for replacing the company's own default clients on the iPhone.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The ethics group called Partnership on AI (PAI) has Alphabet Inc’ Google, Apple Inc and Facebook Inc as members, and is developing guidelines for ethical guidelines for AI research, including ensuring research does not violate international […].

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

Apple has reportedly denied social media company Parler’s bid to reenter the iOS App Store, saying its platform hasn’t addressed problems with offensive content. According to Bloomberg , Apple said that Parler’s latest community guidelines still didn’t meet its standards. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Apple is threatening to remove Hey.com from the App Store if the ambitious new email service doesn’t begin offering an in-app subscription and sharing a cut of its revenue, according to an executive at Basecamp, which makes Hey. Apple also told Protocol that the app shouldn’t have been approved in the first place. Image: Hey.com.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

With potentially billions of dollars and some control over the App Store at stake, Apple has filed for an appeal of the ruling in its major trial against Epic. That clarification was widely seen by developers as a red herring. At the time, Apple didn’t say anything about deleting a section of its App Store Guidelines entirely.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Apple will terminate Epic’s inclusion in the Apple Developer Program, a membership that’s necessary to distribute apps on iOS devices or use Apple developer tools, if the company does not “cure your breaches” to the agreement within two weeks, according to a letter from Apple that was shared by Epic.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Epic’s iOS developer account had been suspended as a result of the company’s intentional violations of the App Store guidelines in August 2020 , which set the stage for the companies’ court battle. Apple lied,” says Epic CEO. Without a working developer account, Epic can’t re-release Fortnite. Apple is still in flux.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Apple ruling, placing a stay on the enforcement of the injunction issued by the lower court. As a result of the stay, Apple can maintain its IAP system as the sole source of in-app payments on iOS, despite the district court’s earlier ruling that the exclusive arrangement is illegal. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Vox

AUGUST 13, 2020

It’s Epic versus Apple in an antitrust battle … royale. The company that owns Fortnite is making an in-your-face challenge to Apple: We’re not going to obey the rules you’ve set for your powerful App Store. So if the situation doesn’t change, Epic will eventually have to abandon Fortnite’s Apple users. Epic Games.

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TechSpot

MARCH 30, 2022

Previous App Store guidelines prevented reader apps from linking to their website counterparts. Presumably, this was to influence developers to use its payment system in their apps so the App Store could take a 30-percent cut. However, it only prompted these players to add pop-up notices saying they could not.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

But there’s one catch: the platform is going to earn those pages and businesses less on iOS, as Facebook says Apple is refusing to waive its standard App Store fees or allow the company to use its own in-app payment processing system it says would help the event organizers keep more of the money they generate.

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The Verge

MARCH 24, 2021

Apple has a rocky relationship with some iOS developers because of its seemingly arbitrary decisions over what gets published and when — and now, because of a dumb miss, it’s being accused of putting profits ahead of human rights in Myanmar by the founder of ProtonMail and ProtonVPN, even though that’s probably not what happened.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MAY 10, 2022

Apple’s recently announced plan to get rid of unloved older apps from the App Store may have annoyed some developers, but with more than 1 million abandoned apps littered across Google's and Apple’s App Stores, the evidence supports the decision. What Apple said about its plans.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Apple will require developers that offer a way to create accounts in their apps to also offer a way to delete them, starting with app submissions on January 31st, 2022, the company shared Wednesday. The account deletion requirement was originally announced alongside several other changes to Apple’s developer guidelines at WWDC 2021.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Hey — the new email service from Basecamp that’s been the subject of the latest fight over Apple’s App Store policies — has announced that starting today, it’ll be open for anyone to join, no invite code required. Hey adds 14-day burner accounts and now has Apple’s approval. The app’s version 1.0.3 The app’s version 1.0.3

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The Verge

APRIL 27, 2021

The European Commission will issue antitrust charges against Apple over concerns about the company’s App Store practices, according to a report from the Financial Times. Spotify has previously claimed Apple uses its App Store to stifle innovation and limit consumer choice in favor of its own Apple Music service.

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The Verge

MAY 5, 2021

Emails between Microsoft and Apple, revealed in the Epic v. Apple trial today, show how the Xbox maker was trying to get xCloud on iOS. Microsoft was trying to figure out how Shadow, Netflix, and other similar “interactive” apps were able to exist in the App Store while Apple was refusing to approve xCloud. Apple trial today. “I

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

Next week, Epic Games and Apple will appear in court for a long-anticipated legal battle. Epic argues that Apple unfairly kicked its hit game Fortnite off the App Store last year, exercising an illegal monopoly over the ubiquitous iOS platform. Apple and Epic both filed revised tentative witness lists on April 26th.

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GeekWire

JULY 16, 2021

Fakespot , a mobile app that analyzes customer reviews on Amazon and other online retailers, disappeared from Apple’s App Store on Friday following a complaint from Amazon that the service was misleading to customers, harmful to sellers and a potential privacy risk. Fakespot Image).

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The Verge

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you’re a blind or low-vision iPhone user who relies on the FlickType keyboard to type, I’ve got some bad news — you’re about to become a casualty of the fight between Apple and one of its staunchest critics. Apple provided Eleftheriou with this screenshot “proving” the app doesn’t work without access.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

government has created an artificial intelligence safety advisory group, including AI creators, users, and academics, with the goal of putting some guardrails on AI use and development. The new U.S. To read this article in full, please click here

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Computerworld Vertical IT

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The US government has created an artificial intelligence safety advisory group, including AI creators, users, and academics, with the goal of putting some guardrails on AI use and development. To read this article in full, please click here

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