Large smartphone manufacturers have long been offering foldables-except Apple. Although the manufacturer still does not want to comment on a “foldable iPhone”, the foundations for this are obviously laid. At the developer conference WWDC 2025, Apple now drummed again and unequivocally for the fact that apps have to be designed “adaptive and really flexible” so … Read more
Friends, calmly, you have not confused the year. We are still 2025. And, yes, it is soon expected to be officially announced iOS 26, not iOS 19. With it the next generation of Apple operating system will bring a number of major visual changes, as well as quite serious upgrades to the Phone, Calera and … Read more
Without a smartphone in a foreign city? Actually unthinkable. And if you have your iPhone with you, you need to know what sensible apps there are for vacation and business trips. The Mac & I editorial team took the upcoming holiday season as an opportunity to collect a total of two dozen app tips for … Read more
After Apple had given information about app store fraud attempts and countermeasures last week, the group now delivers a complete transparency report for 2024. The “App Store Transparency Report” is published annually, it has been published for the third time. Among other things, it contains information on how often and from which states censorship request … Read more
According to the announcement, Claude’s new language mode is initially available for trying out in the beta phase. It enables users of the smartphone app to be carried out on Android and iOS, “complete conversations with Claude” and should be provided for all customers over the next few weeks. Claude: Flying change between text and … Read more
Care, “external purchases”: With a striking warning message, Apple now identifies apps in its App Store that offer users in the EU a direct payment option for digital content – instead of integrating Apple’s payment system. “This app does not support the private and secure payment system of the App Store,” is the noticeable text, … Read more
Business model Cleaner At the end of the 200 mostly charged free apps in the “Service Programs” category, the six apps Cleanup, AI Cleaner, Phone Clean, Cleaner Guru, Ultra Cleaner and Pura Cleaner were found at the end of February 2025. That was the reading sample of our Heise-Plus article “Mobile Platzschaffer: What are the … Read more
Google has apparently organized massive spring cleaning in the Play store in the past 12 months. According to data from the app intelligence provider Apppfigige, Google’s app marketplace has lost 47 percent of its apps so far since the beginning of 2024. A year ago, the Play Store still had around 3.4 million apps on … Read more
Last Wednesday, the US judge, who decided in 2021 in the sense of Apple, changed her opinion: The company has no right to a share of sales that developers achieved through apps that had been obtained from Apple’s app store. The verdict is a new turn in the legal dispute between Epic Games and Apple, … Read more
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