If you’re running a beta version of iOS 13 or 13.1, chances are you can now open the App Store and subscribe to Apple Arcade. The company has been rolling out its new subscription service, as MacRumors spotted. It works on my iPhone running a...
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Every September at the Apple Event, company executives try to get the crowd excited about new services or an App Store redesign. But most people in the audience are there for one product: the new iPhone.
This year, Apple has once again released...
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Congress has asked Apple along with Amazon, Facebook, and Alphabet for emails and other communications between executives as it continues its antitrust investigation into the major tech companies. In Apple’s case, Congress wants to look over...
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Apple has announced that App Store developers will now be able to offer a “grace period” should a customer’s auto-renewable subscription lapse.In the past, failure to process a payment would result in subscriptions being cut off....
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As part of a bipartisan investigation of competition in digital markets, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee today sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook requesting that the company provide any documents and executive communications related to its...
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Apple has revised its App Store Review Guidelines with regards to kids’ apps, and its upcoming Sign in with Apple authentication feature. Its guidelines have now been updated to state that, in limited cases, third-party analytics may be...
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Have you ever encountered billing issues with the iTunes App Store, where a subscription gets put on pause when there is an error trying to bill the credit card that you’ve attached to your account? If you have, you’ll be pleased to...
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Apple today updated its App Store Review Guidelines with changes to third-party advertising and analytics in kids apps, as well as additional criteria for when apps are required to use Sign in with Apple.
Kids apps
The guidelines now state...
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Right from Apple iPhone 4, Apple always used a white cardboard box to ship the product. With the upcoming iPhone 11 Pro series, it looks like Apple is switching back to black cardboard box. The above image was spotted in the Apple AppStore app under...
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Apple today announced three new medical studies in partnership with leading academic and research institutions.
The studies will be available through Apple's new Research app, available as a free download in the App Store later this...
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Apple today announced the launch of its Apple Arcade service, and it’ll be coming on September 19th for $4.99 with the customary one-month free trial. The firm launched the product earlier this year in March as a way of leveraging its large...
Forget new iPhones. You can put a frog in a bathing suit now.
At its special event on Tuesday, Apple revealed some new iterations of Apple Watches, a $4.99 subscription price for Apple TV+, and a coming game subscription service in the app store....
PayPal's Digital Gifts eBay storefront is back with a 15 percent discount on Apple's App Store and iTunes gift cards today, offering the $100 iTunes gift card at a price of $85 for a limited time. This matches the 15 percent discount we've...
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iMessage is a rich messenger platform with its own App Store and features like end-to-end encryption. However, advanced features like scheduled iMessages could make it an even more robust service. Recently an Apple user reached out to Craig...
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Apple executives say that the company has reworked the App Store algorithm to prevent its own apps from appearing in search results more than others.In a new New York Times report, Phil Schiller and Eddy Cue said this would be the case when a user...
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Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) focus on services is paying off. The company saw its largest monthly acceleration in App Store revenue since early 2015, according to data from Sensor Tower cited in a new note from Morgan Stanley analysts.Consumers spent 28%...
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Apple apps ranked first in over 700 tracked searches for popular search terms like "books," "music," news," "TV," "sports," and "people," according to a new report from The New York Times.
According to its analysis, some App Store searches "pro
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That Apple has used its App Store to offer itself a competitive advantage is nothing new. TechCrunch and others have been reporting on this problem for years, including those times when Apple chose to display its apps in the No. 1 position on the...
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Apple’s iOS App Store heavily favored the company’s iPhone and iPad apps and ranked them higher than more popular third-party options until a recent algorithm change, according to a new report from The...
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Apple has shifted its focus to Services as part of its efforts to combat slowing iPhone sales. In a new investor note, Morgan Stanley now says the App Store could show better-than-expected revenue growth for the month of August, citing new data from...
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