Claim launched against Apple for £768 million over battery ‘throttling’
Allegations made in a class action suit by a man called Justin Gutmann are that automatic iOS updates caused older iPhones to slow down, and that breached UK competition law.
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Apple’s new Tap to Pay turns iPhones into payment terminals
Businesses will soon be able to take contactless payments via iPhone thanks to a new feature Apple is rolling out to its smartphones.
UK belatedly realises phone OS duopoly harms consumers
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has been looking into the mobile ecosystem space and has worked out that a duopoly isn’t great for competition.
Netflix enters the mobile gaming arena with a whisper
Video streaming giant Netflix is now bundling mobile games in its offer, starting with a small number of titles and thus limited disruption to the gaming industry’s business model.
Apple wins a Pyrrhic victory over Epic
In the long-running case over Apple’s right to prevent iOS apps circumventing its payment system a judge has ruled the company is not a monopoly in this context, just.
US Senators out to tear down the app store walls
A bipartisan Senate bill is introduced to boost competition in the mobile apps market with rules to restrict what Apple and Google can impose on developers and users.
Will Apple child safety gift governments the keys to comms?
Apple has caused a stir with its new child safety measures, which other tech firms and privacy advocates say could unwittingly open the door to let governments spy on their citizens.
Global app spend increased by 25% in 2020
Mobile app tacker App Annie has released its numbers for the year and the headline stat was that total global spend hit $112 Billion, a 25% increase on 2019.
Zoom tops the 2020 mobile app charts
In a year that saw leaving the house become criminalised in much of the world, it comes as little surprise to see video conferencing service Zoom become top of the mobile pops.
Mobile app use jumps 40%
The latest data from App Annie reveals some of the effects the coronavirus lockdown had on patterns of mobile app use.
Size means little in the app economy
Tear up the rulebook, forget about what you learnt in Economics 101 and don’t bet on the market leader; the app economy is one segment which is supercharging start-ups like few others could dream of.
France does exactly what it was told not to with COVID-19 app
Much has been said about using technology to combat the coronavirus outbreak, but France has done exactly what many critics feared by cutting corners to compromise security and privacy.
Apple tells Google to stay in its lane over security claims
Apple has hit back at a Google blog post, which emerged last week, suggesting its rival in the smartphone OS segment was ‘stoking fear’ amongst its users.
Google exposes massive iPhone hacking operation
Google’s Project Zero security team has revealed a vulnerability in iOS that exposed large numbers of users to a hack that allowed the installation of a monitoring implant.
Smartphone spyware FinSpy is back and thriving
Cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky has reported that FinSpy, a piece of malware that allows private information to be stolen from smartphones, has made a reappearance.
Apple is facing complaints from developers for removing competing apps
Apps that help users control screen time have been removed or been demanded to curtail their features after Apple rolled out similar features. Some developers have filed complaints at the EU against the iPhone maker.
Apple slaps Google and Facebook on the wrist
One day after Facebook had its enterprise developer certificates revoked by Apple, Google ran into similar troubles with the iOS and App Store owner.
Apple demonstrates its conflicted position on smartphone addiction with iOS 12
Gadget giant Apple made its devices more addictive while at the same time offering some tools to help people cope in the latest version of its mobile OS.
UK mobile commerce sales value jumped 85% in 2H 2017
Digital agency Visualsoft has done a bit of number crunching and come to the conclusion that the value of UK commercial transactions over mobile almost doubled in the second half of last year.
Apple moves to address the scourge of device addiction
Some Apple investors have had a go at it for corrupting children so it’s thinking of introducing more parental controls.
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