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...“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.”...
...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...
...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...
...The search giant said its “largest, most capable and most general” AI system would be available as a free app through Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS app stores....
...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”....
...Edwards has found that one data marketplace, Narrative.io, was openly selling data obtained by intermediaries in this way, including smartphones using Planned Parenthood, and various period tracking apps...
...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....
...The market share held by Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android is 47 per cent and 53 per cent respectively. There is little competition in the app store market too....
...The environments in iOS and Android are different enough now that developers are starting to take different strategies for iOS than they would for Android — much as they would make different choices around...
...Jeff Sabin and Andrew Curry, lawyers with Venable LLP, signed into the hearing in person representing a firm called Digital Augean, LLC....
...They can simply say “Roblox, you can’t operate on iOS any more”....
...An interim report for the CMA’s market study of mobile ecosystems spans 681 pages, including appendices, and focuses on the power the two tech giants wield through the iOS and Android operating systems and...
...Apple and Google have said that they expect to release the first version of their contact tracing system for public use, via a software update to the iOS and Android operating systems, in mid-May....
...Android accounts for only 42 per cent of the US smartphone market, compared with 58 per cent for Apple’s iOS, according to StatCounter....
...The complaint comes as Apple is set to bring in landmark changes to how it tracks users, asking them for the first time to opt in to the use of identifiers in its new iOS 14 operating system....
...Most significantly, iOS 14 nudged aside Google for certain search functions....
...The Google News Showcase will feature story panels prepared by publishers which will first appear in Google News on Android mobile phones, before being expanded to Apple’s iOS operating system and eventually...
...And by starting small — the latest version of iOS — it stands to collect data on billions of queries, helping it improve the relevance of the results it returns....
...But third parties have documented widespread ratings inflation after the introduction of iOS 11....
...A further 1.5bn people still use basic or “feature” phones that do not run iOS or Android at all....
...As well as potentially infringing on privacy, some app developers have questioned whether the NHS app will work effectively, due to restrictions that Apple and Google place on iOS and Android apps using...
...The two tech giants, whose iOS and Android software underlie virtually all smartphones, said their efforts will “help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus, with user privacy and...
...It’s available now on the Google Play store and coming to iOS in the near future....
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