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Private party app pulled from App Store by Apple

Enlarge (credit: Hinterhaus Productions | Getty Images) Despite over 82 million cases and over 1.75 million deaths due to COVID-19, many people are bound and determined to carry on with normal life. For some, that includes attending Saturday night ragers, just like they did in the Before Times. Reports of yet another secret party being […]

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Apple’s app store is an illegal monopoly, rival Cydia claims in suit

The company behind Cydia, an iPhone app store that launched before Apple’s own App Store, has sued Apple arguing that Apple has monopolized the market for iOS app stores, violating antitrust law in the process. When the iPhone was introduced in 2007, it didn’t have any mechanism for natively running third-party software. Instead, Steve Jobs […]

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Xbox Cloud Gambling Support Strikes iOS, Windows PCs in spring 2021 

Expand / This demo of Microsoft’s Job xCloud as played a Razer Kishi controller, attached to your normal Android smartphone, may be a sign of what is to come to iOS apparatus in spring of 2021. At a blog article now retrieved everything from forthcoming games to programs for Xbox collection X/S, Microsoft announced that […]

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Apple drops its Reduction of App Store Earnings from 30 Percent to 15 Percent for some Programmers

Expand / / Apple’s App Store. (charge: Silas Stein/picture alliance through Getty Images) In one of their greatest changes on the App Store version, Apple now declared that nearly all third-party programmers releasing games and apps on the provider’s App Store will observe a decrease in Apple’s reduction of earnings from 30% to 15 percent. […]

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Microsoft thumbs its nose at Apple with Fresh”Program fairness” Coverage

Expand / Microsoft sign at the entrance in the Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, California. (charge: Nicolas McComber | Getty Images) Microsoft this week embraced an entire slew of”equity fundamentals” because of the Windows app shop. The set of fundamentals does resemble a good set of tips to both customers and programmers –but additionally, […]