Epic Games says that Apple rejected its latest Fortnite submission to the US App Store and the game on iOS will be “offline worldwide until Apple unblocks it”
Game is Blocked in the EU Now, Too Jessica Filby / Dexerto : Fortnite removed from App Store entirely after Apple blocks them in US Michael Tsai : Fortnite “Blocked” — Dominic Preston (MacRumors, Ha...
Microsoft plans to end support for its Android subsystem in Windows 11 on March 5, 2025, and consequently, end support for the Amazon Appstore on Windows too
no one will miss it Jason Bouwmeester / Techaeris : RIP Windows Subsystem for Android Don Reisinger / Tom's Guide : Windows 11 will stop supporting Android apps in 2025 - here's why Arif Bacchus / MSP...
Twitter is now “X” in the App Store, seemingly via an exception to Apple's rule that requires app names to have two or more characters
Twitter's “X” becomes first one-letter iPhone app Wes Davis / The Verge : Twitter gets special permission to be ‘X’ in the iOS App Store Roshan Abraham / VICE : ‘Blaze Your Glory!’: Twitter Has a Biza...
Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Fenix, Talon, and other third-party Twitter apps are broken; Twitter has given no explanation and developers say they haven't heard back
Last night at about 7:30pm PST, Twitterrific customers started … Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Tweetbot and other Twitter apps still broken as Elon Musk stays silent Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Twitter a...
Sketchy iOS app “ChatGPT Chat GPT AI With GPT-3”, which is not affiliated with OpenAI, is selling subscriptions and has been a top paid App Store app for days
(See also: All the Wordle clones from awhile ago.) https://www.macrumors.com/... Tweets: Tae Kim / @firstadopter : App Store app testers on ChatGPT shams https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/.....
Apple expands App Store ads from the Search tab and Search results to the App Store's Today homepage and individual app pages
ads on individual app pages—shows lawmakers and regulators must press ahead Mike Peterson / AppleInsider : Apple testing new App Store ad placements very soon Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Apple Adding Ads...
Apple won the Epic battle but is too arrogant to see that it still has to make some major App Store changes to both appease the courts and please developers
I hadn't seen one part and will modify the post accordingly. https://twitter.com/... Jens-Fabian Goetzmann / @mrjefago : Here's another, more in-depth analysis why the Epic vs Apple injunction doesn't...
Analysis: eighteen, or nearly 2%, of the 1,000 highest grossing apps on the App Store are scams; according to Appfigures data, the apps may have cost users $48M
harder than manipulating App Store search — or get users to visit maliciously crafted web sites with misleading ads, and trick them into Simon Willison / @simonw : I'm in the Washington Post today - q...
Epic v. Apple is shining a light on Apple's anti-steering rules, which prevent developers from pointing users to better deals on their website or elsewhere
but Apple could (rightfully) respond that because AltStore *does* now exist, anyone can use it to distribute apps “easily,” including Epic @migueldeicaza : The upsetting part is: most well meaning dev...
Mark Zuckerberg on Clubhouse says Facebook may be in a “stronger position” after Apple's IDFA changes and that Facebook Shops has 1M+ monthly active businesses
“Stop inventing shittier trains” — really encounters a perfect, crystalline example. https://twitter.com/... Laura Bassett / @lebassett : I don't really want to hear anything about the journalism busi...