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

EU fines Apple with € 500 million, Meta “gets rid of” only € 200 million

EU fines Apple with € 500 million, Meta "gets rid of" only € 200 million

The European Union fines Apple and META with breakthrough sums due to violations and refusal to implement some of the rules in the digital market act in force within the Union. Apple will bear a penalty of € 500 million while Mark Zuckerberg’s company will have to pay barely € 200 million. The fine aimed … Read more

Apps, subscriptions, Hollywood and advertising: Apple’s service business | Mac & i-podcast

Apps, subscriptions, Hollywood and advertising: Apple's service business | Mac & i-podcast

Apple made almost $ 100 billion in sales in the past year alone-a almost quarter of total sales. This means that services have now become the second most important pillar behind the iPhone and also much more lucrative than hardware business. Streaming services such as TV+, Apple Music and iCloud serve as the figureheads, but … Read more

Apple Torpeder Sideloading: EU Commission sees further DMA violations

Apple Torpeder Sideloading: EU Commission sees further DMA violations

Apple must open iOS and iPados more consistently or count on another punishment. In parallel to the imposition of the first penalty payment under the digital markets Act of 500 million euros against Apple, the EU Commission immediately creeped up the next serious violations on Wednesday: The iPhone group has built targeted hurdles that make … Read more

Apple is rebuilding Siri department-Vision-Pro developer takes over

Apple is rebuilding Siri department-Vision-Pro developer takes over

After changes at the head of Apple’s Siri group, the new engineering boss Mike Rockwell, in which the threads are now running together, has brought employees of his former group into the team. The reports the financial news agency Bloomberg. Accordingly, “a large part of the management” was replaced by people who had previously worked … Read more

DMA: EU Commission impose high punishments against Apple and Meta

DMA: EU Commission impose high punishments against Apple and Meta

According to the EU Commission, Apple has to pay a penalty of 500 million euros because it violates the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The procedure has been running since last year-since then, according to its own statements, the EU Commission has given several clear indications of how the company had to adjust its services in … Read more

Commercial war with China: How to meet Apple’s isolation attempts

Commercial war with China: How to meet Apple's isolation attempts

Apple is one of the major US companies that get a lot from the current trade conflict between the Trump administration and many countries in the world. The iPhone group produces almost all products outside of the United States, most in China. The US government had recently explained a 90-day exception of possible punitive tariffs-probably … Read more