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The market for iOS apps is growing, and so are the rewards. That’s the word from Apple, which said Thursday that since the Apple App Store launched in 2008, app developers have been paid more than $70 billion, or $20 billion more than the total Apple announced last year. Downloads from the App Store have …

Using your phone to “scan” documents is nothing new. Using an Adobe app to snap, store and share those scans? That’s new. Adobe Scan (Android|iOS) is a free tool that turns your phone into a document scanner. With it, Adobe joins the likes of Office Lens and Scannable in providing a fast and easy way to capture receipts, business cards, …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. It’s 2017. It feels like it’s been years since I dreamed of the iPad as a true laptop replacement. (Actually, it’s been five years.) I’ve come to accept that that day may never come. Instead, the iPad’s destiny might be to ride alongside …

Adobe’s new mobile scanning app ups the ante on competitors and does away with paid subscriptions and upgrades.   Called Scan, the free app for iOS and Android converts printed text into a PDF simply by snapping a picture of it. That’s not unusual for scanning apps, but Adobe’s including optical character recognition (OCR) for free.  That means once your …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. A drone hovers about 3 feet above the long wooden table. A man holding a shiny iPad Pro types something on the screen, and the drone suddenly flips over backward then comes to rest on the table’s surface. Next, a small gray robot …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple may announce Siri speaker next week 1:27 Enlarge Image Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off June 5.  Apple We’re learning a bit more about Apple’s alleged Siri speaker as the rumor mill heats up before the company’s annual developer conference. The voice-control speaker is reportedly already being manufactured, according to Bloomberg, and an unveiling at the …

Now playing: Watch this: Twitter’s new privacy settings, MLB comes to Facebook 1:09 Your inbox on Twitter will undergo a slight, but an ever-important change in the coming days. Twitter is in the process of rolling out a second direct message inbox, where messages from those you don’t follow will wind up. The “Requests” inbox is similar to Facebook’s other …

Twitter is trying to give people even more control over who’s sending them direct messages. The social network added a new feature Tuesday that allows users to review DMs from people they don’t follow. In short, if you’ve opted to get direct messages from anybody, including non-followers, you can preview the message in a “Requests” inbox and either accept or …

Now playing: Watch this: The Essential Phone is almost all screen 1:57 Remember Andy Rubin, the creator of Android? Since leaving Google, he’s been busy creating a new company, Essential. It’s making an entirely new phone called the Essential Phone — its model name is PH-1. The Essential Phone has some slick features like being made out of titanium and …

Apple’s iOS is a real walled garden. With the exception of those brave enough to “jailbreak” their phones, Apple controls which apps get into its App Store, and which don’t. Related stories ZDNet: Amazon’s app store puts millions of Android devices at risk On Android, it’s not so simple. Google similarly vets its own Play store, but there’s a huge …