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Cloud gaming ban on the App Store, and mandatory WebKit usage, both declared anticompetitive
Apple’s ban on cloud gaming services in the App Store, and its insistence that all iOS browser apps must use its own WebKit browser engine, have both been declared to be anticompetitive by the UK competition watchdog.
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Domestic violence app aims to help victims, including disguised emergency button
A domestic violence app aims to provide help to victims of intimate partner violence (IPV), offering everything from an encrypted diary of evidence to a way to call police without the need to speak.
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Offshore Software Development Rates Comparison [Guide for 2021] | ProCoders
If you're looking for a detailed offshore software development rates comparison, here it is!! In this article we’re talking about hourly rates comparison of the software developers' from the most popular offshoring countries, sharing our hiring experience and tips, telling you what to pay attention to when choosing a contractor. Click to read.
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React JS The Best Platform For Web Development in 2022
ReactJS changed the course of web development in many ways and has become the most popular web development technology since then.
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WhatsApp Tests New 2GB File Size Transfer Limit
WhatsApp's file-sharing capabilities have become a key feature of the service, and the app has included the ability to share media files within conversations since 2017, but its 100MB file size limitation hasn't changed in that time.
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Web devs rally to challenge Apple App Store browser rules
On Monday, a group of software engineers plan to launch a group called "Open Web Advocacy" to help online apps compete with native apps and to encourage or compel Apple to relax its iOS browser restrictions.
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Mac users report Zoom using their microphone outside calls
Apple Mac users running the Zoom meetings app are reporting that it's keeping their computer's microphone on when they aren't using it. The issue appears to affect the native app running on the current macOS release, Monterey, in which Apple has implemented a visual cue to alert users that an application or device is accessing their microphone or camera — via an orange or green dot in the Menu Bar, respectively.
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Microsoft does what Apple won't and opens up its Windows Store
While Apple fights to maintain its strict App Store rules and its 15-30% cut of all purchases and subscriptions, Microsoft is taking the opposite approach. The company on Wednesday announced major changes to the Microsoft Store that will make it fairer, more open, and more transparent.
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Grindr reportedly disappears from app stores in China
LGBTQ dating app Grindr has been removed from the Apple App Store in China, and is also unavailable on popular Android app marketplaces, Bloomberg reports. The app reportedly disappeared from the iOS App Store on January 27th, although it’s unclear when it was removed from the country’s popular Android app stores — which are operated by local companies like Huawei and Tencent in the absence of the Google Play Store.
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iOS 15 lets you spy on apps that might be spying on you
Apple is cracking down on how apps access your private data, such as location data, photos, camera, microphone, as well as what domains the apps are communicating with. And part of that is giving users the ability to find out what the apps that they have installed are up to.
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Tim Cook tells Apple employees he’s ‘looking forward to moving forward’ after Epic ruling
Apple prevailed on nine of 10 counts in the lawsuit.
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A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
Google Talk, Google's first-ever instant messaging platform, launched on August 24, 2005. This company has been in the messaging business for 16 years, meaning Google has been making messaging clients for longer than some of its rivals have existed. But thanks to a decade and a half of nearly constant strategy changes, competing product launches, and internal sabotage, you can't say Google has a dominant or even stable instant messaging platform today.
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Google is kicking ‘sugar dating’ apps out of the Play Store
Dormant developer accounts now also face removal. “Sugar dating” apps will not be allowed on the Android Play Store from September 1st, Google has announced as part of a series of policy changes for the platform. The change, which was first reported by Android Police, specifically prohibits apps relating to “compensated sexual relationships.” Other changes coming to the platform include a new crackdown on inactive developer accounts, Google says.
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Scammy iOS app discovered that refuses to open unless you give it a good review
App developer and scam app hunter Kosta Eleftheriou’s latest discovery is a real doozy, an iOS app that refuses to function before you give it at least a 3-star review in the App Store. Although the UPNP Xtreme app — which claimed to let users stream video to their TVs — now appears to have been pulled, we were able to verify that it generates the App Store rating box the second it opens. You can’t dismiss the ratings box, nor can you tap the 1 or 2-star ratings, Eleftheriou said.
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GasBuddy tops Apple App store amid gas shortages from Colonial Pipeline shutdown
GasBuddy, an app that helps users find and save money on gas, topped the Apple App Store on Wednesday, as some consumers across the East Coast continue to struggle to find fuel after a cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline.
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Google is limiting which apps can see everything else you have installed
Google will soon be more selective about which apps on the Play Store can see all of the other apps you have installed (via XDA-Developers). As Ars Technica points out, your list of installed apps, innocent as it seems, can communicate to developers personal traits like dating preferences and political affiliations. So starting on May 5th, 2021, developers will have to provide a very good reason for why Google should let you access info like that.
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A Descriptive List Of Alternative App Stores For 2021
After immense research, we have compiled a collection of the best alternative app stores for Android and iOS for app publishers to consider - don't miss out on the complete list!
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Google Maps is finally rolling out a proper dark mode
Google has been teasing a dark theme for Maps for over a year now, and it even briefly rolled out to a few people, but it was never properly formalized or acknowledged officially. That changed last month when Google finally announced that dark mode is coming, and now, it's starting to roll out more widely.
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Warning Signal: the messaging app’s new features are causing internal turmoil
Signal promised to be different from other messaging apps — but will the company’s focus on growth compromise its mission?
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App Store Best of 2020 Winners Begin Receiving Physical Award
Apple this week announced its App Store Best of 2020 winners, recognizing 15 apps released over the course of the year. For the first time, winners are now receiving a physical award, and some developers have begun sharing their respective awards over the past few days.
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