Apple's changes for iOS app distribution in the EU fail to offer fair and reasonable commissions and show its disdain for both the DMA and app developers
Yesterday, Apple made an important announcement regarding changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union in response to the Digital Markets Act ("DMA").
Apple's proposed App Store and iOS changes seek to retain as much control over iOS as possible while staying within the letter of the EU's DMA
Apple yesterday announced a broad, wide-ranging, and complex set of new policies establishing their intended compliance with the European Union's …
While App Store changes apply to all of Apple's platforms, iPadOS, which doesn't meet DMA thresholds, won't get third-party app stores, browser engines, more
Yesterday, Apple announced some major changes to the App Store and the broader iPhone platform in the European Union, including support for alternative app marketplaces.
Fossil Group plans to leave the smartwatch business, and says the company will continue to keep its existing Wear OS watches updated “for the next few years”
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Mozilla criticizes Apple's plans to restrict BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps, forcing “Firefox to build and maintain two separate browser implementations”
Apple's new rules in the European Union mean browsers like Firefox can finally use their own engines on iOS.
Spotify says Apple is “forcing developers to stay with the status quo” and calls on the EU to “reject this blatant disregard” of the EU's established principles
For almost five years - 1,782 days - we have been asking the European Commission to take action against Apple.
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Microsoft says some users may be experiencing “multiple issues” with Microsoft Teams, and that it is applying “mitigations across the affected infrastructure”
Title: Some users may experience multiple issues with their Microsoft … Pranav Dixit / Business Today : Microsoft Teams suffers global outage, slowly recovers Tobias Mann / The Register : Snow day in ...
Co-founder Binny Bansal steps down from Flipkart's board, after selling his entire stake in the company, which was acquired by Walmart in 2018, in recent years
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A look at the US Copyright Office, which is in the spotlight as it plans to release three key reports in 2024 revealing its position on copyright law and AI
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Apple's reluctant, punitive compliance with regulators will burn its political and developer goodwill, affecting the success of new platforms like Vision Pro
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch : Mastodon: @lapcatsoftware@mastodon … . X: @patrickmoorhead . Forums: r/apple Mastodon: Jeff Johnson / @lapcatsoftware@mastodon.social : The irony of Apple's “five a...
Google is testing an ARM64 version of Chrome for Arm-based Windows devices
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Apple removes a requirement that apps with third-party log-ins must offer Sign in with Apple, but requires an equivalent option with certain privacy features
There's another small but notable change coming to the App Store. Apple has revised its App Store guidelines to remove the requirement …
Chrome's upcoming “Help Me Write” experimental AI feature could be a key step in making the web a place where most words are written by bots instead of people
Starting next month, Google will begin rolling on a new experimental feature in Chrome, the most popular browser on Earth … Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.social . X: @jwherrman , @nymag , and @jwherrm...
Sources: the US plans to award billions in subsidies to Intel, TSMC, and other chip makers in coming weeks, amid concerns about slow implementation of CHIPS Act
Industry, lawmakers worry semiconductor production could take years because of negotiations, permitting and worker shortages
Supporters of Israel are using apps to mass report pro-Palestinian content online, raising questions for tech platforms over “citizen-led propaganda” campaigns
which is not actually real.https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Eileen Clancy / @clancynewyork : This level of organization only exists on one side of the conflict," said Emerson T. Brooking...[of] Dig...
Microsoft details the techniques that the Russian hacking group Midnight Blizzard used to breach the email accounts of its executives and other organizations
here's what that means for you Mastodon: Bert Hubert / @bert_hubert@fosstodon.org : Microsoft is trying to get all email users, including governments, to migrate to their cloud-based solutions. This ...
iOS 17.4 code shows that Apple may be testing two versions of its Ajax LLM for Siri and Messages, comparing their responses to results from OpenAI's ChatGPT
New emoji, EU App Store changes, unreleased devices, and more! Alan Martin / Tom's Guide : Apple testing souped-up Siri with help from ChatGPT Amber Neely / AppleInsider : iOS 17.4 beta has signs of a...
Pixel 8 Pro's Thermometer app, which uses an infrared sensor to scan the forehead, has a fiddly user experience and appears to have accuracy issues
Victoria Song / The Verge :
A review of Honor's Magic V2 foldable, launching in the UK and Europe for £1,700 and €2,000: thin and durable but a dated OS and processor, and software issues
Sources: Flexport plans to lay off ~20% of workforce, its third round of cut in just over a year; it has ~2600 employees after cutting 20% of staff in October
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Proof, which provides legal document serving, e-filing, and other online litigation services, raised a $30.4M Series B led by Long Ridge Equity Partners
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Layoffs.fyi: so far in January, around 23,670 workers have been laid off from 85 tech companies, the most since March 2023 when ~38,000 people were laid off
here's why Americans still feel like it is Nickie Louise / TechStartups : Salesforce cuts 700 jobs, or about 1% of its global workforce as tech layoffs top 25,000 in 2004 NBC Bay Area : Anxious about ...
A federal judge sentences OneCoin lawyer Mark Scott to 10 years in prison for his role in laundering millions of dollars through the crypto scheme
Source: Chamath Palihapitiya shelved plans to raise $1B for an early-stage investment fund, in part due to fundraising challenges
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios : X: @mhdempsey , @thestalwart , @carnage4life , @riddle245 , @fisurgi , @hitsamty , @jasonlk , @fed_speak , and @bucknsf X: Michael Dempsey / @mhdempsey : It is truly shocki...
Interview with Meta Oversight Board member Pamela San Martín on preparing Meta for a critical year in elections, the weaponization of social platforms, and more
Vittoria Elliott / Wired : X: @telliotter X: Tori Elliott / @telliotter : Meta's platforms are still critical for many people, and could likely have a major impact on global democracy. But the compan...
Some Beeper users lost access to iMessage on their Mac and were told by Apple that the company had revoked access due to irregular activity
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