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
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
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
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
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
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
Apple boss Tim Cook reached deep into the Steve Jobs trick box when the Apple Watch was introduced. Like Jobs’ at the legendary presentation of the first iPhone, Cook focused on three simple cornerstones 10 years ago to illustrate the meaning of the new device – time display, communication as well as health and fitness. … Read more
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
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
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