Apple resolves an outage impacting some of its online services, including the App Store, Apple TV, Podcasts, and Music, that lasted for over an hour on April 3
Apple server faces outage as users get message that platform 'can't connect' Mastodon: Matt Birchler / @matt@isfeeling.social : You know, if you could let users download your app from your own site th...
After criticism, Apple says iOS 17.4 won't stop supporting Home Screen web apps in the EU and they will still be built on WebKit and its security architecture
https://appleinsider.com/... Bodil / @bodil@social.treehouse.systems : Sad news today that Apple have decided not to shoot themselves in the foot to spite the EU after all. I was quite looking forwar...
Apple announces support for alternative app stores in the EU, charging no commission but instead an annual €0.50 Core Technology Fee per install per account
including sideloading John Voorhees / MacStories : Apple Details How It Plans to Comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act Siôn Geschwindt / TNW : Apple begrudgingly allows EU customers to use rival ap...
In November 2023, Apple challenged the EU's DMA designation of its five App Stores as a single service, iOS' interoperability, and iMessage's NIICS designation
Apple (AAPL.O) has challenged EU tech rules designating its five App Stores as a single core platform service subject to onerous obligations …
Mark Zuckerberg announces Instagram now lets users add up to five links to their account bios, challenging Linktree, Beacons, and other “link in bio” services
I am delighted for you that for the moment Meta has given you the ability to put up to to 5 links in your bios. How long they will allow that will be interesting to see. Maybe it will stay. … Tweets...
TikTok's playbook to win DC's trust, like touring its Transparency and Accountability Center in California, echoes Huawei's unsuccessful US and Europe strategy
and Some Want to Ban It Entirely Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times : Democrat Senator Michael Bennet calls on Apple and Google to ban TikTok from their app stores Makena Kelly / The Verge : Apple and ...
Twitter quietly updates its developer agreement with a clause banning third-party clients, after claiming the company was “enforcing long-standing API rules”
This Twitter Developer Agreement ("Agreement") is made between you … Sean Heber / The Breakroom : Twitterrific: End of an Era Timi Cantisano / XDA Developers : Twitter's next update will no longer for...
Roskomnadzor says it is blocking Facebook in Russia, citing 26 cases of “discrimination against Russian media and information resources” since October 2020
Russia is being cut off from the rest of the online world … France 24 : Russia blocks Facebook over ‘discrimination’ of state media Brittany Bernstein / National Review : Kremlin Blocks Access to Face...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee approves the Open App Markets Act, which would allow app sideloading and let developers use their own in-app payment systems
in the face of millions in Big Tech lobbying and assaults from all the think tanks they pay — would have been unimaginable three years ago. Probably even two years ago. You love to see it. Alex Harman...
Payments company Paddle announces an alternative in-app payments system for iOS, charging 5%-10% fees and launching December 7, following Epic v. Apple ruling
which makes it not “in-app” but more like how we've been doing it on the web for the past 20 yrs 😉 Fees: 10% or 5% + $0.50 https://twitter.com/... Elena / @virtualelena : $689m is an incredible number...