Volksbanks bring Girocard to the iPhone – apart from Apple Pay

Volksbanks bring Girocard to the iPhone - apart from Apple Pay

So far, for iPhone users and banks at Mobile Payment, there was no way around Apple Pay. That will change soon: The Volks- und Raiffeisen banks want to give customers the option in the current year to pay contactlessly in shops with the iPhone- outside of Apple’s central payment service. “The first Girocard transaction on … Read more

App Store: Apple gives an insight into how AI summaries arise

App Store: Apple gives an insight into how AI summaries arise

At first glance, Apple’s new summary for app reviews looks like a simple task for artificial intelligence. The function introduced with iOS 18.4 is intended to provide users of the app store a faster overview of what others say about an app. On closer inspection, however, it is much more complex, since older and false … Read more

Survey: Apple users would pay for Apple Intelligence to a small extent

Survey: Apple users would pay for Apple Intelligence to a small extent

How many Apple customers would (also) pay a fee to access Apple Intelligence? Apparently there are much more than expected. This is the result of a survey of a good 3,300 users that the Morgan Stanley bank had carried out in February and March. The reports macrumors. According to the information, only 14 percent of … Read more

“Mac does that”: New Apple campaign should attract Windows users

"Mac does that": New Apple campaign should attract Windows users

Apple started a new switcher campaign for the Mac with several video ads. Under the name “Mac does that” (somewhat rumpel German translation: “Yes, the Mac does it”), the group wants to once again move into the MacOS warehouse. The iPhone is also used, which is also increasingly widespread among PC users. The project is … Read more

Missing filming: Netflix builds entire Apple shop for film

Missing filming: Netflix builds entire Apple shop for film

For the thriller adaptation of a hostage-taking in the Amsterdam Apple Store in 2022, the streaming service Netflix had enormous effort. As already reported, the company, which is in direct competition with Apple’s TV+service, received no filming permit for the shop. The problem was avoided by recreating the centrally located store on the Leidseplein in … Read more

Report: Robot project no longer under Apple’s AI boss

Report: Robot project no longer under Apple's AI boss

Former Google Manager John Giannandrea, hired at Apple as head of all projects in the field of artificial intelligence, is said to have given another important project according to the voice assistant Siri. Like the economic news agency Bloomberg writesa (still) secret robot department at Apple should no longer be under Giannandreas control. The project … Read more

US government: EU penalty against Apple and Meta is “economic extortion”

US government: EU penalty against Apple and Meta is "economic extortion"

The US return carriage for the EU’s EU Low and Meta was not long in coming: such punishments are a “new form of economic blackmail” and was “not tolerated”, a spokesman for the White House said in a statement, From which the Reuters news agency quotes, among other things. Such a regulation of US corporations … Read more

Source-open game engine Godot: Apple on board-for vision per

Source-open game engine Godot: Apple on board-for vision per

Apple tries to get the game development for the Vision Pro going. In order to position themselves more broadly in the future, developers of the group have now submitted concrete plans to adapt the open source engine Godot for the Vision Pro. The immediate goal is to play in a “planar visionos window” based on … Read more

EU penalties against Apple and Meta: game, sentence, but by no means victory

EU penalties against Apple and Meta: game, sentence, but by no means victory

In the eternal ping pong game about the EU regulation of tech companies, we finally approach the end of the first sentence: Since the issue of European digital laws, the EU Commission and the mostly US companies have been publicly back and forth. The fine notices against Apple and Meta with penalties of 500 and … Read more