Epic Games today officially launched a rival app store for iOS in the European Union, marking the first time Apple’s own App Store has had to face a serious rival. The Epic Games Store will initially offer Epic’s games, including Fortnite, for users to download onto their iPhones, with plans …
Read More »Delta Is an iOS Game Boy Emulator That (Likely) Won’t Get Taken Down
Video game emulators are having a tough time. Back in March it was Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, which got shut down following a lawsuit from Nintendo. Pizza Emulators, another Nintendo emulator, disappeared around the same time. Then, over the weekend, after Apple updated its restrictions on retro game emulators to …
Read More »Apple Pulls Popular Movie Piracy App Kimi From the App Store
Watching pirated movies on your iPhone just got a little harder. After climbing the charts of Apple’s App Store, the trendy Kimi app, with its collection of bootlegged movies, has just disappeared. Pretending to be a spot-the-difference vision-testing game, the widely downloaded app ranked above Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime …
Read More »Apple Isn’t Ready to Release Its Grip on the App Store
Politicians in Brussels have for years debated how best to loosen Big Tech companies’ grip over their closely guarded marketplaces. But it was only this week that Apple announced sweeping and drastic changes for its European users. For the first time, new EU rules have forced the company to entertain …
Read More »Apple Turned Its Epic Defeat Into Another App Store Victory
What can $83 million in legal defense fees buy? In Apple’s case, billions of dollars in annual App Store revenue that had been under threat until this week. While the iPhone maker’s costly legal battle started by developer Epic Games technically isn’t quite over, Apple looks mighty victorious after the …
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