Apple has filed legal action against former German App Store manager Tom Sadowski and publisher Murmann Verlag to stop the book “App Store Confidential”…
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Why Apple allowed BlueMail back into their Mac App Store
Eight months after it was removed, BlueMail is back in Apple’s Mac App Store. However, Blix has no intention of dropping its legal case against Apple…
U.S. DOJ contacting app developers in Apple antitrust probe
The U.S. Justice Department has reached out to app developers as part of its Apple antitrust probe, one of the four big tech companies being probed for…
Start-up Blix calls for developers to revolt against Apple’s ‘sherlocking’
A start-up software developer that’s suing Apple for allegedly “sherlocking” its app has called on other developers to revolt against Apple …
What’s really retarding the iPad? Apple’s App Store
What’s really retarding the iPad? Apple’s App Store, Lukas Mathis writes. If the killer iPad app can’t get into the App Store, it can’t make iPad better…
Vine creator’s new Byte app debuts at No.1 on Apple’s App Store
Byte, a new video-sharing app released Friday, reboots the deprecated Vine video-sharing service. Byte app creator Dom Hofmann co-founded Vine…
Apple resolves issue that caused App Store outage for some users
Apple has resolved the “weird errors” that on Friday caused an App Store outage that prevented some users from completing purchases, updating apps, or…
Apple’s App Store is having issues
Apple’s App Store, a critical piece of the company’s rapidly growing Services business, is having issues today. Apple’s system status page…
Apple’s Services can hit $100 billion in annual revenue by 2024 – analyst
Apple’s annual revenue for their Services category, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+ iTunes Store, Appel TV+, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and more…
Entrepreneur to Congress: Apple’s App Store appeals process would make ‘Kafka blush’
Basecamp founder David Heinemeier Hansson said that Apple’s system of appeals is so difficult to navigate that it would make Kafka blush…
Apple’s App Store generates over a billion dollars per week
Apple generated over a billion dollars a week from the half billion plus people visiting its App Store every week in 2019…
Big ‘DOOM’ and ‘DOOM II’ updates available on Apple’s App Store
The update has many standout features. Both DOOM and DOOM II now have 60fps support, a new aspect ratio option, quick save and load, level select, and support for new free add-ons…
Apple’s App Store pulled in $1.4 billion in a week
After Apple said customers spent a record amount in its App Store during the final days of the holiday season, shares of the Cupertino Colossus hit a new high on Wednesday…
Apple rings in new era of Services as App Store sales hit Christmas week record
App Store customers spent a record $1.42 billion between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, a 16 percent increase over last year, and $386 million on New Year’s Day 2020 alone, a 20 percent increase over last year and a new single-day record…
Apple’s App Store again destroys Google Play in global app Christmas spending
Apple’s App Store accounted for 70 percent of spending between the two platforms at $193 million, growing about 16 percent Y/Y…
Apple promos Christmas deals Fortnite, Minecraft, Clash of Clans, and other games
Via email, Apple is promoting holiday deals in select games including Fortnite, PUBG, Candy Crush Saga, Minecraft…
Apple to offer App Store ‘Surprise’ from December 24-29
Apple is planning to offer some sort of Christmas App Store “Surprise” promotion…
Lawsuit alleges Apple suppressed App Store competitors’ rankings, until they got caught
An email app developer says it has uncovered new data that suggests Apple has long been suppressing the rankings of apps in the App Store…
Apple pulls ‘Rewound’ app that turned iPhone into a classic iPod
Rewound was specifically designed not to infringe on Apple’s trademarks…
Apple faces shareholder vote on human rights policies after banning Hong Kong police activity tracking app
Apple’s human rights policies will face a fresh shareholder vote in the new year following the company’s decision to ban a Hong Kong police activity tracking app…
U.S. Congressman asks Apple, Google if apps like TikTok and Grindr must disclose foreign ties
On Friday, the chair of a congressional panel wrote letters to Apple and Google to ask what, if any, disclosures are mobile apps required to make regarding overseas ties…
New app ‘Rewound’ turns your iPhone into a classic iPod with click wheel – free in App Store now
Want to have some retro fun?
Report claims 1,500 instances of unwanted sexual behavior on six apps in Apple’s App Store, some targeting minors
“We created the App Store to be a safe and trusted place for our customers to get apps and we take all reports of inappropriate or illegal contact extremely seriously,” Apple said…
Apple announces press event on December 2nd
Apple today announced a press event on December 2nd where the company will…
JP Morgan: Apple could raise annual advertising revenue to $11 billion by 2025
Apple could increase its income from advertising by more than five fold to $11 billion annually within the next six years…
Apple to remove all vaping apps from App Store amid growing health concerns
Apple will remove all 181 vaping-related apps from the App Store this morning amid growing health concerns over e-cigarettes…
Apple removes Instagram stalking app from App Store
The ‘Like Patrol’ app promised to keep tabs on other peoples’ activity on Instagram. Apple says the app violated its guidelines and pulled it…
U.S. senator blasts Apple for ‘risking compromise to authoritarianism’ in China
A key U.S. senator warned that Apple and the Chinese-owned music-video app TikTok are threats to international data security…
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz blasts Apple, ‘desperate to make a buck in China,’ for prioritizing profits over principles
I don’t think U.S. companies should be willing to aid and abet oppression and censorship by the Communist government…
Apple’s iron-fisted control over the App Store is no longer sustainable
Apple is the only judge and jury regarding what’s acceptable in the App Store…
Apple CEO Tim Cook joins influential Beijing university board as company’s China woes continue
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been appointed as the chairman of the advisory board at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing, a role which offers access to state leaders…
Ted Cruz, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among U.S. lawmakers urging Apple to restore Hong Kong police activity tracking app
First Apple pulled the HKmap Live app. Then they reinstated it. Then China criticized Apple, warning of “consequences,” so Apple CEO Tim Cook quickly kowtowed and pulled it again…
Apple CEO Cook meets China regulator after pulling Hong Kong police activity tracking app
Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook met the chief of China’s market regulator in Beijing on Thursday, the Chinese agency said…
Apple accedes to China’s despotic demands
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has said that “companies should have values, just like people do.”
Apple execs told Apple TV+ content creators not to portray China negatively
Apple’s recent actions in China are a continuation of the company’s years-long practice of appeasing Beijing. To do business in China..
Prominent Hong Kong lawmaker warns Apple of becoming an ‘accomplice for Chinese censorship’
In an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, A prominent Hong Kong lawmaker and IT entrepreneur, Charles Mok, has warned Apple…
Apple CEO Tim Cook defends removal of Hong Kong police activity tracking app in memo to employees
You have likely seen the news that we made the decision to remove an app from the App Store entitled HKmap.live…
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s continued kowtowing to China is a very bad look
China poses a triple threat to Apple. First, the escalating trade war between the US and China…
Apple removes Quartz news app from App Store in China over Hong Kong coverage
Apple has removed Quartz’s mobile app from the App Store in China after complaints from the Chinese government due to the publication’s ongoing coverage of the Hong Kong protests…
Apple again pulls Hong Kong police activity tracking app from App Store following Chinese warning
The Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper on Tuesday called the app “poisonous” and decried what it said was Apple’s complicity…
China warns Apple of ‘consequences’ for reinstatement of Hong Kong police activity tracking app
The mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party slammed a transport app available on Apple’s store that it alleged helped protesters identify police in Hong Kong…
Apple’s Catalyst apps for Mac leave some developers uneasy, users paying twice
Last year, Apple Inc. software chief Craig Federighi said developers would be able to easily bring their iPad apps to Mac computers…
