Meta announced “New Ways For Small Businesses To Boost And Avoid Apple Service Charges” From the announcement: Businesses with limited resources have found tremendous value in advertising through boosted posts to find new customers and have been utilizing them for many years. In fact, nearly all boosted post users are small businesses. To support the millions of small businesses that
The European Commission adopted decisions closing four market investigations that were launched on 5 September 2023 under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), finding that Apple and Microsoft should not be designated as gatekeepers for the following core platform services: Apple’s messaging service iMessage, Microsoft’s online search engine Bing, web browser Edge, and online advertising service Microsoft Advertising. The decisions concluded
To comply with European Union regulations, Apple has introduced sweeping changes that make iOS and Apple’s other operating systems more open, ArsTechnica reported. The changes are far-reaching and touch many parts of the user experience on the iPhone. They’ll be coming as part of iOS 17.4 in March. Apple will introduce “new APIs and tools that enable developers to offer
Apple will again be barred from selling watches with blood oxygen sensors beginning Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said, CNBC reported. The court order Wednesday did not rule on Apple’s effort to overturn a U.S. International Trade Commission ban on the company selling the effected watches in the United States. But it lifted an injunction
Apple will have to comply with a sweeping injunction reshaping its relationship with mobile app developers and potentially billions of dollars in app-related sales, after the US Supreme Court declined to review the lower court’s order on Tuesday, CNN reported. Apple estimated in 2022 that developers generated $1.1 trillion in the App Store that year, making the high court’s decision
Apple on Tuesday appealed a decision to ban imports of its watches based on a complaint from medical monitoring technology company Masimo after U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration declined to veto a government tribunal, Reuters reported. According to Reuters, the tech giant also filed an emergency request on Tuesday for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to
Apple announced a contingent pricing for subscriptions on its Developer blog, on December 15, 2023. “Contingent pricing for subscriptions on the App Store - a new feature that helps you attract and retain subscribers - lets you give customers a discounted subscription price as long as they’re actively subscribed to a different subscription. It can be used for subscriptions from