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New Apple tool lets developers compare their apps to those of competitors

New Apple tool lets developers compare their apps to those of...

Enlarge / The peer group benchmarks dashboard within Apple's analytics suite. Apple has introduced a new way for developers for platforms like the iPhone to track their apps' performance. It's a new dashboard called peer group benchmarks that shows percentile data on how an app compares in certain metrics to other similar apps. The new dashboard…
Musk won’t relaunch Twitter Blue until he finds a way to avoid Apple fees

Musk won’t relaunch Twitter Blue until he finds a way to...

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NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto Twitter CEO Elon Musk was planning to bring back Twitter Blue this week, but then he got frustrated with Apple, and now nobody knows when the subscription service will relaunch. But it seems Musk has decided that when Twitter Blue—initially exclusively offered to iPhone and iPad users—comes back, the service…
Elon wants to go to war with Apple. History suggests it’s probably not going to make a difference.

Elon wants to go to war with Apple. History suggests it’s...

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Elon Musk isn't the first — or necessarily most powerful — exec to take on Apple's App Store fees. Industry insiders from developers to CEOs have long decried the 30% fee, dubbed the "App Store tax." Lawsuits, regulatory bodies, corporations, and many others have failed to enact much change. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for…
Apple ad exec wants to more than double ad revenue with new ads across iOS

Apple ad exec wants to more than double ad revenue with...

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Enlarge / Apple's HQ, as seen in Apple Maps.Samuel Axon Apple is looking into significantly ramping up its ads business, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, and has already internally explored adding ads to the iPhone's Maps app, with other potential expansions also on the horizon. The shift may be driven in part by a…
3 years after launch, Apple Arcade loses 15 games

3 years after launch, Apple Arcade loses 15 games

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Enlarge / Art from Various Daylife, one of the games that left Apple Arcade in August 2022. Several games that were previously available as part of the Apple Arcade subscription service have been removed. Fifteen titles have been dropped, and all of them are games that were introduced in the early days of the service.…
Thanks to subscriptions, iPhone apps finally made more money than games

Thanks to subscriptions, iPhone apps finally made more money than games

Enlarge / Apple's App Store. Throughout the short history of smartphone apps, games have consistently driven more revenue than non-gaming app categories. But that has finally changed in the United States, according to new data from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower. The shift began in May 2022. By June, 50.3 percent of US consumer spending…
Apple will delist App Store apps that haven’t been updated recently

Apple will delist App Store apps that haven’t been updated recently

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Enlarge / Apple's App Store. Apple plans to imminently remove games and apps on the App Store that have not been recently updated if developers don't submit an update for approval within 30 days. This news comes from screenshots and claims shared by various app developers and reporting by The Verge. Here's the text of the…
Tim Cook delivers speech railing against “data industrial complex,” sideloading

Tim Cook delivers speech railing against “data industrial complex,” sideloading

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Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at the IAPP 2022 conference.Apple Apple CEO Tim Cook took to the stage at the annual International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) conference on Tuesday to talk about privacy, security, ad tracking, and sideloading. Calling privacy "one of the most essential battles of our time," Cook lambasted companies…
Developers complain that Apple promotes scam apps on the App Store

Developers complain that Apple promotes scam apps on the App Store

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Enlarge / The front of the iPhone 12.Samuel Axon Developers are once again publicly highlighting instances in which Apple has failed to keep scam apps off of the app store. The apps in question charge users unusual fees and siphon revenue from legitimate or higher-quality apps. While Apple has previously come under fire for failing…
Amazon joins Apple, Google by reducing its app store cut

Amazon joins Apple, Google by reducing its app store cut

Enlarge / The Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet, which runs Amazon's Fire OS. Apparently following the lead of Apple and Google, Amazon has announced that it will take a smaller revenue cut from apps developed by teams earning less than $1 million annually from their apps on the Amazon Appstore. The same applies to developers…

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