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Apple launches ‘Tracker Detect’ AirTag detector app for Android
Apple on Monday released a new Android app called “Tracker Detect,” designed to those who’ve settled for pretend iPhones to identify…
J.P. Morgan: Apple’s upcoming 5G iPhone SE could help attract billion-plus Android users
Apple’s upcoming 5G iPhone SE has the potential to attract more than a billion non-premium Android users, J.P. Morgan analysts wrote…
Android devices infected with malware 15 to 47 times more than iPhone
Devices that run on Android – a platform that supports sideloading – have an estimated 15 to 47 times more infections from malware…
Google, fighting record $5.1 billion EU fine, slams regulators for ignoring Apple
Google on Monday launched a bid to get Europe to annul a record $5.1 billion fine and blasted EUn antitrust regulators for “ignoring” Apple …
After Apple installs iPhone backdoor, Android owners less likely to switch, says survey
After Apple inexplicably threw away iPhone’s privacy advantage by uninstalling a backdoor into iPhone, fewer Android users are considering…
Apple’s iOS surges in U.S. to 50% mobile OS market share
The analysis features findings about trends in mobile phone activations from April-June 2021 for Apple’s iOS and Alphabet’s Android …
After Apple introduces app tracking rules, advertisers shift spending toward Android
Advertisers have begun shifting their spending patterns in the months since Apple began requiring apps to gain iPhone and iPad users’ permission…
UK to investigate Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ in mobile operating systems
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is taking a closer look at whether Apple’s and Google’s “effective duopoly” over the supply…
Google, following Apple yet again, to allow Android settlers to opt out of ad tracking later this year
Once again following an earlier move by rival Apple to further bolster privacy protections on iPhones, Google will allow Android settlers…
Amazon’s Bezos says retail is much more competitive than the smartphone market
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the retail industry is far more competitive than the smartphone operating system market, an obvious reference to…
U.S. Supreme Court sides with Google in Android copyright dispute with Oracle
The U.S. Supreme Court handed Alphabet Inc.’s Google a big victory on Monday, ruling that its line-for-line use of Oracle’s software code…
Hackers used 11 zero-day exploits, compromised websites to infiltrate iOS, Android, and Windows
In a highly sophisticated attack, a group of hackers leveraged a total of 11 zero-day vulnerabilities along withf compromised websites to…
YouTube, Tinder, and Disney+ top U.S. consumer spending for iOS subscription apps
YouTube, Tinder, and Disney+ topped U.S. consumer spending for iOS subscription apps in 2020. Worldwide consumer spending grew…
Looming Apple privacy changes worry Snap despite revenue growth
On Thursday, Snap Inc., maker of the photo-messaging app Snapchat, warned that upcoming privacy changes by Apple could hurt Snap’s ad…
Google explores ‘less stringent’ knockoff of Apple’s anti-tracking privacy feature for Android
If there’s anything Google focuses almost as much as being an online advertising broker masquerading as a search engine, it’s copying Apple…
Apple’s App Store had gross sales of at least $64 billion last year
Apple’s App Store grossed more than $64 billion in 2020 while other data shows consumer spending on the store hit $72.3 billion…
Apple’s App Store generated more than double the revenue of Google’s Play Store in 2020
Apple’s App Store has once again captured the bulk of the revenue generated between the two major platforms, iOS and the derivative Android…
Cydia, the app store for jailbreakers, hits Apple with antitrust lawsuit over App Store
Cydia, a once-popular app store for iPhone jailbreakers that launched in 2007 prior to Apple’s App Store, has filed a lawsuit vs. Apple …
SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch: Apple’s didn’t need to copy anyone to invent iPhone, so why did Google?
Alphabet’s Google got a mixed reception at the U.S. Supreme Court as it sought to overturn a ruling that could force the company to pay…
Apple iPhone users 76% more attractive on dating apps
A new study studied the world of online dating and found that schlepping a pretend iPhone could make you up to 75% less swipe-worthy…
Google-backed advertising groups criticize Apple’s new warnings on user tracking
Digital advertisers, backed by Google, on Friday criticized Apple’s plans to require apps to seek additional permission from users before tracking them…
Apple’s Dark Sky weather service for Android will be discontinued on August 1st
On March 31st, the Dark Sky weather service announced they’d been purchased by Apple and that Dark Sky for iOS would continue to be available…
How to opt out of COVID-19 contact tracing in iOS 13.5
Apple in iOS 13.5 is introducing an “exposure notification” (née “contact tracing”) API. In Apple’s iOS 13.5 beta, you can opt out of contact tracing …
Apple iPhone sales in China spiked sharply in April
Apple saw a sharp spike in iPhone sales in China in April, according to new government figures as interpreted by Barclays analyst Tim Long…
Smartphone shipments in China up 17% in April, signaling likely rebound
According to Chinese government data released on Tuesday, smartphone shipments from factories in China to vendors rose 17% in April compared to the same…
How to opt out of COVID-19 contact tracing in iOS 13.5
Apple in iOS 13.5 is introducing an “exposure notification” (née “contact tracing”) API. In Apple’s iOS 13.5 beta, you can opt out of contact tracing …
Android settlers mourn loss of Dark Sky app after Apple acquisition
Popular hyper-local weather app Dark Sky yesterday announced the company’s acquisition by none other than Apple, meaning the Andoid verison is discontinued…
Popular VPN and ad-blocking apps are secretly harvesting user data
Sensor Tower has been secretly collecting data from millions of people who have installed popular VPN and ad-blocking apps…
Disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin’s Essential shuts down
Essential Products, an Android smartphone peddler founded by disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin is shutting down, the comnpany confirmed Wednesday…
iPhone vs. Android: Hidden iPhone feature is a big advantage over Android
When it comes to iPhone vs. Android, Apple often comes out on top; likely because they invented the modern smartphone while Google is just trying to approximate it for the less discerning…
Sonos lawsuit claims Google has been blatantly and knowingly copying Sonos’ patented technology
In 2013, Sonos scored a coup when Google agreed to design its music service to work easily with Sonos’s home speakers…
Toxic Hellstew: 146 new vulnerabilities all come preinstalled on Android phones
The vulnerabilities encompass everything from unauthorized audio recording to command execution to the ability to modify system properties and wireless settings…
People getting texts originally sent on Valentine’s Day hit with wide range of emotion
Something strange is happening with text messages in the US right now. Overnight, a multitude of people received text messages…
Massive security hole: Google Pixel 4 Face Unlock works if eyes are shut
Google has confirmed the Pixel 4 smartphone’s Face Unlock system can allow access to a person’s device…
More than 50 percent of all iPhones are already running iOS 13
If you count only iPhones purchased in the last four years, the figure jumps up to 55 percent…
IDC: 2019 will be challenging for iPhone, shipments expected to drop to 177.9 million, down 14.8% year over year
A new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows signs of market recovery in the second half of 2019 and into 2020…
Unix at 50: How the OS that powers iOS and Android started from failure
Maybe its pervasiveness has long obscured its origins. But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another powers nearly all smartphones…
Apple’s Messages for Android will never arrive and green bubbles will keep ruining Messages
For the time being, those who settle for Google insecure, privacy-trampling, fragmented, toxic hellstew will remain in their green bubble ghetto sporadically soiling our pristine, blue, full-featured Messages…
Android settlers besieged by factory pre-installed malware
There’s a flow of Android malware that those who settle for pretend iPhones cannot defend themselves against: malicious apps that have been factory pre-installed…
Apple locked me out of its walled garden and it was a nightmare
Luke Kurtis recently was forced to find out what happens when the technology you’ve built your life around suddenly isn’t there…
Your iPhone contacts list could be a vulnerable target – unless you’ve updated your software
Researchers say they were able to surreptitiously gain greater access to iOS privileges: “If successful, the intruder owns your iPhone” and the information on it…
