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Apple's profit grew in its second quarter and beat the Street estimates, the US technology giant said on Thursday. The company's bottom line totaled $23.64 billion, or $1.53 per share. This compares with $24.16 billion, or $1.52 per share, in last year's second quarter. The company's revenue for the quarter fell 4.3% to $90.75 billion from $94.84 billion last year.
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The Chinese government has ordered Apple to remove WhatsApp and Threads from its Chinese App Store, the US tech giant said. The Chinese internet regulator cited national security concerns when issuing the order to remove the two Meta-owned apps, the iPhone-maker told the Wall Street Journal and other US media in a statement late Thursday. China's "Great Firewall," the term used to describe Beijing's system of internet censorship, had already prevented the foreign apps from being accessed domestically. But users had been able to download the apps and then use VPNs - which redirect data traffic ...
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Samsung clinched the top spot in the smartphone market from Apple in the first quarter of 2024, preliminary data from research firm IDC revealed on Monday. Global smartphone shipments increased 7.8% year over year to 289.4 million units in the first quarter of 2024, IDC said. In the last quarter, Samsung sold 60.1 million smartphones and Apple 50.1 million of its iPhones, IDC estimated. That brings the market shares of the two biggest companies to 20.8% and 17.3%. "As expected, smartphone recovery continues to move forward with market optimism slowly building among the top brands," Ryan Reith,...
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Apple has decided to embrace gaming emulation apps, a move which is perceived as a preemptive measure to retain users amidst the EU's ruling mandating the allowance of third-party app stores. Apple recently announced the significant change in its App Store regulations, which will allow developers to incorporate retro game console emulator apps on its platform. The decision was communicated to developers by email. The updated guidelines not only permit developers to offer game emulators for iOS, but they also allow retro game emulator apps to provide downloadable games. It is noteworthy that de...
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Apple is pairing up with Shutterstock on Artificial Intelligence (AI) image training to upgrade Apple's devices with the latest technology, Apple said on Monday. The tech giant has recently signed a deal, worth up to $50 million, with Shutterstock to license millions of images, video and audio content to train its AI large language models, according to Apple Insider. The alleged deal could improve the image generation and editing capabilities of iPhones, by enhancing the AI image recognition technology. Moreover, iPhone users could take advantage of improved voice recognition and automatic tra...
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A few sentences from Apple boss Tim Cook more than five years ago could cost the iPhone company almost half a billion dollars. Apple wants to settle a class action lawsuit that has been running for years with a payment of $490 million, according to court documents from the weekend. In a conference call following the presentation of quarterly figures at the beginning of November 2018, Cook made relatively positive comments about business in China. Two months later, Apple took the unusual step of lowering its revenue forecast by up to $9 billion - and explicitly referred to the slowdown in busin...
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Following pressure from EU regulators, Apple has announced that iPhone users in the European Union could now download apps directly from developer websites, instead of having to go through its App Store. The newly announced move, also known as sideloading, is in compliance with the EU's landmark Digital Markets Act or DMA, introduced to regulate tech giants and provide a level playing field for smaller rivals. "Distributing apps directly from a website requires responsibility and oversight of the user experience, including the ability to manage apps and provide customer support and refunds," A...
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Apple has delivered a blow to the creators of the popular online game Fortnite by cancelling their developer account for the iPhone operating system in the European Union. The accounts are critical as they allow creators, like Fortnite-maker Epic Games, to distribute their apps to iPhones. Apple's move means Epic cannot launch its own app marketplace - called the Epic Games Store - or bring Fortnite to iPhone users. "We recently announced that Apple approved our Epic Games Sweden AB developer account," Epic Games explained in a blog post. "We intended to use that account to bring the Epic Game...
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Apple has delivered a blow to the creators of the popular online game Fortnite by cancelling their developer account for the iPhone operating system in the European Union. The accounts are critical as they allow creators, like Fortnite-maker Epic Games, to distribute their apps to iPhones. Apple's move means Epic cannot launch its own app marketplace - called the Epic Games Store - or bring Fortnite to iPhone users. "We recently announced that Apple approved our Epic Games Sweden AB developer account," Epic Games explained in a blog post. "We intended to use that account to bring the Epic Game...
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The European Commission has fined Apple €1.8 billion ($2 billion) for imposing unfair restrictions on competitors to its music streaming service, Apple Music, following a complaint by Spotify. Apple device users in the European Union "were not able to make a free choice as to where, how and at what prices to buy music streaming subscriptions," EU competition chief Margarethe Vestager said in a press conference on Monday. The fine - which Apple said it will appeal to EU courts - relates to its practice of charging companies a 30% fee for sales made in apps provided through Apple's App Store, to...
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