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...Apple last month announced changes to its iOS mobile software, App Store and Safari browser in efforts to appease Brussels after long resisting such steps....
...This month, Apple unveiled a series of changes to its iOS mobile software in Europe in an effort to comply with the DMA, such as allowing users to download apps from other sources and access alternative...
...“Through iMessage, business users are only able to send enriched messages to iOS users and must rely on traditional SMS for all the other end users.”...
...Apple announced last month it will make changes to its iOS mobile software in Europe, such as allowing users to download apps from other sources and access alternative payment systems....
...The move removes the US games company’s ability to offer titles to Apple mobile users or proceed with launching a competing app store on its rival’s iOS mobile software in Europe....
...It has now changed course, and said “the EU can expect the return of the existing functionality for home screen web apps with the availability of iOS 17.4 in early March”....
...Epic had said that the iPhone maker operated a monopoly in the iOS ecosystem, controlling the pipeline through which developers reached consumers....
...As part of Monday’s ruling, the commission also banned Apple from blocking apps from offering their services outside the iPhone maker’s iOS software....
...Sweeney also warned that Apple’s vetting of rival stores could prevent the Epic Games Store from featuring on iOS....
...The commission said it was looking at whether Apple was meeting its obligations to allow users “to easily uninstall any software applications” on its iOS operating systems and change default settings, browsers...
...The DoJ joins a growing global backlash against Apple’s tight control of its iOS ecosystem, which critics claim allows the company to levy monopoly fees and impose unfair business terms....
...helps keep those users locked into the company’s iOS ecosystem....
...Future projects are still under wraps, with VIV’s official launch due later this year, but the pair aims to offer work from $100 to $30,000 through vivarts.io....
...For Apple, giving users a choice of app stores and payment providers on iOS means unpicking a wide array of technical linkages between services, as well as publishing 600 new application programming interfaces...
...Fortnite maker Epic Games, a longtime Apple foe, wants its store on iOS devices and points to its lower 12 per cent fee as an incentive for consumers to switch to its platform....
...Google’s Android is the most widely used mobile operating system in the world, eclipsing Apple’s iOS....
...Apple also challenges the notion it operates a monopoly around iOS. The next steps in the Google case are complex. The tech giant can appeal against the jury verdict sometime next year....
...Google Play faces some app store competition on Android, but Apple stands alone with iOS. So be it, the Apple case judge ruled: its app store is very successful but “success is not illegal”....
...Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, usually held in June, is widely expected to be the event where the company reveals its latest operating system, iOS 18....
...Antonis Koutsoumpas, 30, a mathematics teacher assigned mid-year to Ios, spent three months in a room without a kitchen, heating or hot water....
...Hacking Inc....
...The weakness in the iOS code, called a zero-day, appears to have allowed NSO customers, which include Saudi Arabia, Rwanda and Mexico, to hide code within images sent via iMessage that would allow the military-grade...
...Hardware advances come hand in hand with software development, and there are a few neat tricks baked into Apple’s latest iOS 17 operating system, also launched this week....
...Alphabet pays Apple between $8bn and $12bn a year for Google to be the default search engine on iOS, according to the US Department of Justice....
...It is hard enough to adapt to the regular updates to Apple iOS or Android, let alone tackle a different set of swipes, symbols and habits for the limited periods that most of us spend driving....
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