LONDON (AP) — The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Monday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for breaking the bloc’s competition laws by unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over rivals. Apple banned app developers from “fully informing iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services … Read more
Apple faces a proposed class action lawsuit alleging the company holds an illegal monopoly over digital storage for its customers. The suit, filed Friday claims “surgical” restraints prevent customers from effectively using any service except its iCloud storage system. iCloud is the only service that can host certain data from the company’s phones, tablets and … Read more
Apple announced to its employees earlier this week that the long-running Apple Car project — Project Titan — is no more. The news isn’t exactly a surprise, given that the last few years have been filled with story after story after story about the project’s struggles, but a new postmortem shows that Titan floundered from … Read more
All these firms seek to capitalize on what Apple recognized a decade ago: The software and connectivity now built into new autos gave tech incumbents a jump on traditional auto-builders. But those advantages haven’t always proven out. Project Titan had plenty of other challenges. High-profile executives from tech companies, tech-inspired automakers like Tesla, and legacy … Read more
Apple filed a lawsuit in Virginia federal court challenging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and its refusal to grant the company trademarks for its augmented reality tools. The company has argued that its augmented reality software development tools “Reality Composer” and “Reality Converter” should be trademarked. The office has said the phrases were … Read more
iPhone users have discovered a little-known trick to get more storage space. Hannah Koumakis, from New Zealand, has shared a now-viral video showing how she was able to connect an external hard drive to her phone so she could transfer her pictures and videos over. By importing your files into the hard drive, you can … Read more
A Taylor Swift fan has shared the one iPhone camera feature you need to know about for the Eras Tour. Michelle Gonzalez stood among the roaring crowd at one of the superstar’s concerts in the US in early 2023. During the show, she managed to capture the perfect footage of the singer’s performance after learning … Read more
A host of similarities between tech stocks now and previous bubbles suggest the Magnificent Seven is nearing — but not yet at — levels that may lead it to pop, according to Bank of America Corp. strategists. They cite a handful of indicators, such as bond yields, valuations and price action, that suggest there are … Read more
Watching pirated movies on your iPhone just got a little harder. After climbing the charts of Apple’s App Store, the trendy Kimi app, with its collection of bootlegged movies, has just disappeared. Pretending to be a spot-the-difference vision-testing game, the widely downloaded app ranked above Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video in Apple’s charts this … Read more
Google got to where it is mostly by offering free services stuffed with ads, but it has increasingly experimented with a different business model: selling subscriptions for extra perks. Its first subscription offering, debuted in 2006, provided additional photo storage for users who didn’t want to have to hit the delete button. You can now … Read more
