Свежие новости и отзывы о Apple

The European Union has confirmed it’s looking into Apple’s decision to close Epic Games’ developer account — citing three separate regulations which may apply. Yesterday the Fortnite maker revealed Apple had terminated the account, apparently reversing a decision to approve the developer account last month. Epic had planned to launch its own app store, the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The Apple-Epic saga has just taken a new turn today as the Fortnite game developer, Epic Games, shared that Apple has terminated its developer account. This is a reversal from Apple’s earlier approval of the account last month, which Epic said would allow it to bring back Fortnite to iOS devices in the EU by […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Mindfulness and meditation apps have tremendous potential in the world of extended reality. The full immersion created by headsets like the Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro offer great potential to kickstart such practices, which are notoriously difficult to both begin and maintain. As such, partnership between leading meditation app Headspace and Quest-maker Meta is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Apple’s iOS 17.4 update is primarily about adapting iOS to EU’s Digital Market Act Regulation. But the company has also released a new API called FinanceKit that lets developers fetch transactions and balance information from Apple Card, Apple Cash, and Savings with Apple. At launch, the company has partnered with YNAB, Monarch, and Copilot. In […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Spotify said today that it has submitted a new version App Store that shows pricing and feature information about the audio company’s different plans in the EU. The update, which is pending approval from Apple, also includes a link for users to buy subscription plans from Spotify’s website. Earlier this week, the European Commission fined […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

No, Apple’s new and controversial “Core Technology Fee” isn’t going away for EU app developers who opt into the iPhone maker’s new business terms designed to comply with the region’s Digital Markets Act. However, Apple is today announcing a handful of smaller concessions driven by feedback from its app developer community, it says. Notably, the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Streaming music service Deezer is joining Spotify in cheering the European Union’s €1.84 billion fine imposed on Apple for breaking antitrust rules in the streaming music market. However, the company urges the EU Commission to assess Apple’s response to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which it says is “deceptive” and “an attempt to bypass European […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

“Denial is a river that flows through Cupertino!,” said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, a notorious Apple critic who also sued the tech giant for anticompetitive practices, in a post on X, weighing in on today’s news of the European Commission’s historic €1.84 billion fine against the iPhone maker. The EC ruling, which favors Spotify, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

This time on Equity, we talk through Apple's massive fine in the EU, India's new rules for AI, Waymo's wins, and Salla's huge pre-IPO round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Apple says it plans to appeal the historic €1.84 billion fine issued today by the European Commission over Apple’s anticompetitive practices in the streaming music market. In a newsroom post, Apple called out Spotify, a company based in Stockholm, Sweden as the “primary advocate” and “biggest beneficiary” of the EC’s decision — noting the streamer […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

TikTok is introducing a data portability API to help it comply with new European regulations designed to rein in Big Tech’s market dominance through various obligations and restrictions. The European Union (EU) assigned “gatekeeper” status to six tech companies last September, with TikTok parent Bytedance placed in the regulatory firing line alongside Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Spotify is cheering the European Commission’s decision to hold Apple accountable for anticompetitive practices in the streaming music market to the tune of a massive €1.84 billion fine, announced today. The streamer called the fine a “powerful message” that sends a signal that even “a monopoly like Apple” is not able to “wield power abusively” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Apple announced new MacBook Air models with 13-inch and 15-inch screen sizes with M3 Chip. The 13-inch model starts at $1,099 and the 15-inch model starts at $1,200. Both variants are available for pre-orders in the U.S. starting today with general availability slotted for March 8. Apple unveiled the M2 Macbook Air in 2022 and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The European Union has fined Apple €1.84 billion for breaching antitrust rules in the market for music streaming services on its mobile platform, iOS. The penalty is focused on Apple’s application of anti-steering provisions, which put restrictions on music streaming apps’ abilities to tell consumers about cheaper offers outside Apple’s App Store. The iPhone maker […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. I was in Los Angeles earlier this […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Hello, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, investment firm KKR announced that it would acquire VMware’s end-user computing business from Broadcom for $4 billion. As Ron explains, that business included VMware Workspace One and VMware Horizon — two remote desktop apps that had […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Apple has scrapped plans to enter the automotive industry with its mysterious autonomous electric car, instead shifting focus to the wildly popular world of generative AI. The project saw the company hiring prominent executives from places like Tesla and Ford. Its end has led to job losses for some employees, while others have changed divisions […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Честно говоря, я не собирался даже начинать смотреть новый фильм Ридли Скотта про Наполеона. Но как-то так получилось, что включили, благо он снят для Apple и поэтому бесплатен для подписчиков Apple TV+. Буду краток — с моей точки зрения, это практически идеальное средство от прокрастинации. То есть буквально минуты с пятой фильма я начал ощущать, что у меня есть такое количество более интересных дел — от попить чаю до посмотреть YouTube, — и это ощущение нарастало, пока после примерно минут 45-50 я не подд... →

Epic Games, Spotify, Proton, 37Signals, and other developers had already signaled their displeasure with how Apple has chosen to adapt its rules to meet the requirements of the new EU regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) called it “extortion” and “bad-faith” compliance, among other things. Now those companies have formalized their complaints in a letter […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Apple has reversed its decision about blocking web apps, also known as Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), on iPhones in the EU. The company updated its developer page saying that after receiving many requests to support PWAs, it will reinstate the functionality in the upcoming public release of iOS 17.4 PWAs can act like native apps […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →