by Surur
2 days
The Anti-Apple crowd have formalized their alliance, with the usual suspects banding together to form the Coalition for App Fairness. Formed by Epic Games, Spotify, Basecamp, Blix, Blockchain.com, Deezer, the European Publishers C...
by Surur
2 weeks
Apple today announced Apple One, a new way to get all of Apple’s subscription services in one simple plan, including Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, Apple Fitness+, and iCloud. Pricing is reasonable, with the ...
by Surur
2 weeks
Apple has been retaliating against Epic Game’s challenge to the Apple tax, but the company may have realized it went too far when it banned the company from using the Apple-mandated “Sign in with Apple” feature. ...
by Surur
3 weeks
In the latest of episode of the epic saga, Apple has demanded Epic returns any money it managed to collect from Fortnite players when it had its 20% off vBucks sales, a sale which it managed by circumventing Apple’s 30% vig....
by Surur
3 weeks
Russia has already sanctioned Apple for its capricious behaviour towards App Store developers, and now the world’s 3rd largest economy has also joined in on the pile on. Developers in Japan are not as concerned about the 30%...
by Surur
3 weeks
Russia is set to turn up the pressure on Apple, with Reuters reporting that Russian lawmakers are submitting draft legislation that would cap app store commissions for mobile applications. The bill is being submitted by Fedot Tumu...
by Surur
4 weeks
The Russian FAS (Federal Anti-monopoly Service) has found Apple guilty of abusing its monopoly on iOS, after adjudicating a complaint made by anti-virus company Kaspersky. Kaspersky complained that when Apple introduced Screen Tim...
by Surur
1 month
We reported this morning that Apple was demanding WordPress.com add in-app purchases to their app so Apple could get a 30% share from the sale of their paid hosting plans. The existing WordPress app only lets users manage their si...
by Surur
1 month
With phone sales flagging Apple is really turning the screws up on companies (and by extension their customers) in an effort to extract more money from iPhone owners. The latest victim is WordPress.com, which offers an iOS app whi...
by Surur
2 months
The sudden prominence and importance of video calls have resulted in companies having to push their video conferencing solutions quite aggressively so as not be left behind by Zoom, the de facto king. Slack has, of course, accused...
by Surur
2 months
Like many platform holders like Apple and Microsoft, Google is in the position of providing both the platform for other apps and their own applications which compete with those apps. In general, it is not felt to be good practice ...
by Surur
2 months
Microsoft has never been happy about paying 15-30% of their Microsoft 365 subscription revenue to Apple when users sign up via the App Store, an issue which delayed the arrival of Office for iPad for some years, until Microsoft fi...