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The Netherlands’ competition regulator is finally happy with concessions by Apple to allow dating apps in the market to use alternative payment technologies. On Saturday the Authority for Consumers and…

Apple’s payment options offer for Dutch dating apps is compliant, says ACM

The U.K.’s competition watchdog has published its final report on a comprehensive, year-long mobile ecosystem market study — cementing its view that there are substantial concerns about the market power…

UK’s antitrust watchdog finally eyes action on Apple, Google mobile duopoly

A pair of reports published today potentially reveal Apple’s 2023 laptop and iPad lineup. If true, big changes are coming. Literally big: Apple is rumored to be building a 14.1-inch…

Apple said to be planning 12″ MacBook, 15″ MacBook Air and 14.1” iPad Pro for 2023 releases

New functionality arriving in iOS 16 will enable apps to trigger real-world actions hands-free. That means users could do things like start playing music just by walking into a room…

In iOS 16, apps can trigger real-world actions hands-free

Timed alongside its Worldwide Developer Conference this week, Apple rolled out a new set of App Store Review Guidelines which, somewhat surprisingly, now loosen restrictions around some requirements that need…

Apple loosens some of its App Store Review Guidelines with latest update

At its last WWDC, Apple announced Xcode Cloud, its continuous integration and delivery service (CI/CD) for building apps for all of its platforms into beta. While the company opened up…

Apple’s Xcode Cloud CI/CD service comes out of beta

Apple demonstrated “passkeys” at WWDC 2022, a new biometric sign-in standard that could finally kill off the password for good. It’s no secret that passwords are insecure, with easily guessable…

Apple ‘passkeys’ could finally kill off the password for good

Apple’s iOS has already made our lives a tad bit easier by letting us copy and paste text in our photos. Now, that same live text functionality will extend to…

Apple announces in-camera translations and improves dictation

Happy WWDC day. Today kicks off Apple’s annual developer’s conference, with the traditional keynote starting at 10:00 a.m. PST (watch it right here). Generally, WWDC focuses on software features and…

For the first time in years, the Apple Store is down ahead of WWDC

Columbus, Ohio’s technology job scene really took off in the early 2010s when the state made investments that enabled entrepreneurs to more easily start companies. Fast-forward to today, and companies…

Hear how Columbus, Ohio startups are hiring tech talent

As a handful of Apple retail locations begin the process of unionizing, the trillion-dollar company’s vice president of people and retail Deirdre O’Brien delivered a warning to 58,000 retail staff…

Apple VP kindly reminds retail workers that they can say no to unions

As app store legislation targeting tech giants Apple and Google moves forward in Congress, Apple today is out with two more new reports meant to demonstrate how successful the app…

Apple’s latest research suggests the iOS app economy supports 2.2 million US jobs

Apple revealed that it will be expanding its Today at Apple Creative Studios initiative to seven new cities, including Berlin, Miami, Milan, Nashville, Sydney, Taipei and Tokyo. It will also…

Today at Apple Creative Studios will launch in 7 new cities

Surely, this won’t be abused? Alongside the launch of the iOS 15.5 update, Apple introduced a new set of rules to govern auto-renewing subscriptions on the App Store. Now, instead…

PSA: Apple’s new rules let apps raise subscription prices automatically

Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard; but there remains an opportunity for startups that focus on specific niches to build viable businesses. In the latest example, reMarkable, the Oslo,…

reMarkable, maker of a focus-friendly e-paper tablet, says it closed funding at a $1B+ valuation after selling 1M devices

An Apple Music bug is perplexing some iPhone owners. According to various reports, the Apple Music iOS app is installing itself directly to the iPhone’s dock when downloaded, instead of…

iPhone users complain Apple Music is installing itself to the dock, booting out their other apps

Apple store employees in Towson, Maryland have organized a union and petitioned to hold an official union election. This marks the third Apple retail location in recent weeks that has…

A second Apple Store files to hold a union election

After the popular online game Wordle went viral, an unrelated older mobile game that shared the same name benefitted, gaining an explosion of downloads as iPhone users mistook it for…

Wordle! (but not that Wordle!) is now in the hands of mobile tech firm AppLovin

A pair of bills moving through Congress would force some of the largest tech companies to cede control over how people find and use mobile apps, leading to more competition…

We need app store competition, not Apple’s 1960s-style paternalistic monopoly

Amid a record-breaking fiscal second quarter, Apple also delivered record-breaking services revenue up 17% year over year to reach $19.8 billion. The category — which includes businesses like the App…

Apple’s services revenue hits a record $19.8B in Q2, reaches 825M paid subscriptions

Apple retail workers at the Cumberland Mall store in Atlanta, Georgia became the first group of U.S. Apple store workers to reach a crucial step in the formal unionization process:…

An Apple Store in Atlanta is the first to file for a union election

From Activision to Amazon, historic union elections are changing the way that Americans think about work. Now, Apple is the next tech giant to reckon with an employee-driven labor movement.…

Apple retail workers at the Grand Central store are trying to unionize

Hello readers, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, I talked about Apple and crypto. This week, we’re talking about Apple clashing with Meta over their metaverse taxes.…

Metaverses grapple with Meta versus Apple

Apple CEO Tim Cook has used a speech at the IAPP conference in Washington, D.C. today to frame looming competition reforms which could force the iPhone maker to allow sideloading…

Tim Cook uses privacy keynote to attack sideloading

Privacy watchdogs in Europe are considering a complaint against Apple made by a former employee, Ashley Gjøvik, who alleges the company fired her after she raised a number of concerns,…

Ex-Apple employee takes Face ID privacy complaint to Europe

Hulu’s streaming app is the latest to add support for Apple’s SharePlay — Apple’s newer system that allows users to co-watch content, like streaming movies or shows, over FaceTime calls.…

Hulu’s app gains Apple SharePlay support and new Live TV features

Apple may be changing how iOS subscriptions operate when price increases are involved. Recently, some developers noticed that the streaming service Disney+ was seemingly only informing users of upcoming price…

Apple pilot tests feature that allows developers to automatically charge users for subscription price increases

Apple has dropped a requirement for a separate binary which it had sought to impose on Dutch dating apps wanting to take up a legal entitlement to use non-Apple payment…

Apple’s tweaked antitrust offer drops separate binary requirement for Dutch dating apps

Apple today announced it will begin to allow a subset of applications sold on its App Store to link to an external website where users can create or manage their…

Apple to now allow ‘reader’ apps to use external links, if approved

Earlier this month, Apple announced its first live sports deal with Major League Baseball to bring a number of games and other MLB content to the Apple TV+ service for…

Apple and Major League Baseball to livestream 12 weeks of Friday night games for free