Epic Games escalated its Fortnite legal battle with Apple over the weekend, accusing the iPhone maker of posing an unfair threat to game developers community. The charge, appearing in a filing submitted Sunday in a Northern California federal court, centers on Apple’s threat to ban the Unreal Engine code it offers to outside game developers …
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It turns out WordPress doesn’t need to add in-app purchases to its iOS app. “We believe the issue with the WordPress app has been resolved,” Apple said in a statement Saturday. “Since the developer removed the display of their service payment options from the app, it is now a free stand-alone app and does not have to offer in-app purchases. We have …
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Apple is expected to include superfast 5G wireless technology in its next iPhone, rumored to be announced Sept. 10. But that higher speed will come at a higher component cost, says a new report, so Apple is finding other ways to even out the price of its parts to make up the difference. An analyst note from Ming-Chi Kuo, reported …
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Apple‘s argument with Epic Games, the company behind the popular battle title Fortnite, goes back to June, the tech giant said in a Friday filing. And it started with Epic asking for a deal to offer a competing app store and payment system, separate from Apple’s, on iPhones. Apple said it received an email from Epic CEO Tim Sweeney on June 30, …
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Apple’s big summer surprise was not the first ARM-based Mac. It wasn’t a new Mac Mini, nor the return of the 12-inch MacBook. The biggest hardware news from the company right now is a new 27-inch iMac. Yes, it looks the same as the last 27-inch iMac, and the one before that, and so on. It even keeps the same starting prices …
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Epic Games levels up again in its battle against Apple and Google with the announcement of the #FreeFortnite Cup tournament on Aug. 23, just ahead of its Chapter 2 Season 4 launch on Aug 27. Epic is locked in a public battle with the two tech giants over their policies on in-app purchases on iOS and Android devices. Apple and Google last …
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On Friday, Apple Arcade added Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time, a new action game from Adult Swim, to its growing catalog of over 130 games. The game is based on Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated series Samurai Jack, which aired on Adult Swim, Cartoon Network’s name for its late night programming lineup. See at App Store In Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time, you play …
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I work from home. Outside my window on any given day, there are lawnmowers, construction tools, barking dogs and the like, all making it hard to concentrate. I’d heard Apple’s AirPods Pro ($225 at Amazon) were borderline magical in their noise-canceling capabilities, but $250? No. Nuh-uh. (For what it’s worth, the best deal right now: $220 at Verizon. Still too …
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For the second week in a row, Apple is being asked to cut down its App Store fees. After Fortnite publisher Epic Games sued Apple last week in a confrontation over the 30% tax Apple charges to developers on its App Store, trade organization Digital Content Next, which represents publishers including the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNET …
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I’m currently reviewing the new 27-inch iMac from Apple. While it’s very impressive right out of the box, I can’t help tinkering with new devices, which usually means firing up a 3D printer and printing some accessories. With its design stuck in time for the past several years, the iMac can certainly benefit from a few of these extras. Here are the …
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