Apple is opening up web distribution for iOS apps targeting users in the European Union starting Tuesday. Developers who opt in — and who meet Apple’s criteria, including app notarization requirements — will be able to offer iPhone apps for direct download to EU users from their own websites. It’s a massive change for a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Apple announced measures on Friday to make it easier for music streaming apps on its App Store in the European Economic Area to inform users of other ways to purchase digital services, as it looks to comply with a European Union mandate. The announcement comes weeks after the iPhone maker was fined 1.84 billion euros ($1.99 billion) by the EU for thwarting competition from music streaming rivals via restrictions on its App Store. The European Commission had said in March that Apple's...
With the second beta of iOS 17.5 that's available today, iPhone users located in the European Union are able to download apps directly from the websites of Apple app developers without going through the App Store or an alternative app marketplace. Since March, Apple has been working on support for downloading apps from websites, and the feature is finally ready for testing. Apple started letting developers offer their apps through alternative app marketplaces in the EU in iOS 17.4, but the...
Apple has once again acknowledged an ongoing “false touch” problem affecting Apple Watch users. Oftentimes referred to as “ghost touches,” this issue causes the Apple Watch to act as if the display is being tapped, even when it isn’t. more
Leak suggests the revamped S2 will make setting up Sonos speakers easier and will fix the app's unintuitive UI.
Apple Reminders is a pretty complete to-do list app., but it doesn't offer a menu bar icon that allows you to quickly check your reminders, nor a system-wide keyboard shortcut for quickly adding a task to your list. The free application Reminders Menu Bar fixes these problems so seamlessly you'd think Apple made it themselves
Are you an Apple Watch aficionado eager to enhance your daily digital experience with some cutting-edge apps? If so, the latest roundup from HotshotTek presents a suite of Apple Watch applications that cater to a variety of needs, from everyday functionalities like weather forecasting and web browsing to more specialized uses like sports tracking and […]
Apple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks. The company sent the alerts to individuals in 92 nations at 12pm Pacific Time on Wednesday. The company did not disclose the attackers’ identities or the countries where users received notifications. “Apple […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100 to Canary and Dev channels on April 3rd. This build lays the groundwork for the upcoming 24H2 update but is currently experiencing instability. What are the odds that this happened just a few days after we posted about users’ dissatisfaction with the changes in Windows and other […]
Apple's Ferret LLM could help allow Siri to understand the layout of apps in an iPhone display, potentially increasing the capabilities of Apple's digital assistant. A ferret in the wild [Pixabay/Michael Sehlmeyer] Apple has been working on numerous machine learning and AI projects that it could tease at WWDC 2024. In a just-released paper, it now seems that some of that work has the potential for Siri to understand what apps and iOS itself looks like. The paper, released by Cornell...
A report last year revealed that Elon Musk had plans to introduce a new charge for users who have just registered on X (formerly Twitter) on the grounds that this would be the only way to make the platform free of bots. Now Musk himself has confirmed his intentions and revealed more details about this potential fee. more
iGBA seems to have taken unauthorized code from earlier GBA4iOS project.