WhatsApp is an incredibly popular iPhone app, connecting more than a billion active members around the world every day. It lets you send messages to friends, or groups of friends, over Wi-Fi or 4G/5G and make savings on your phone bill. (Of course, you may end up paying for data if you go over your…
Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch…
Apple Store at Grand Arcade in the U.K. In the latest Apple Crime Blotter, video emerges of a woman in China biting iPhone cable, North Carolina businessmen sentenced in fraud, and Sam Bankman-Fried’s story is coming to Apple TV+. The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series, looking at the world of Apple crime. Five indicted…
Last week, the European Union (EU) announced the first set of gatekeeper tech companies and gatekeeper services, and we’ve already discussed what it means. For example, iMessage isn’t a gatekeeper yet, so it doesn’t have to support Google’s RCS. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out…
Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch…
Article Hero Image Both Apple’s iMessage and Microsoft’s Bing appear to have been removed from compliance with the EU’s Digital Markets Act while the company’s protests are investigated. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) was really created specifically to target Apple, Google, Amazon and others. Apple, however, has protested that its iMessage service is too small…
Earlier this week, the European Commission announced the first list of gatekeeper companies and services for the European Union (EU). That’s how we know Apple doesn’t have to open iMessage to RCS anytime soon. And iOS 17 will bring sideloading to iPhone, at least in Europe. The EU wants its Digital Markets Act (DMA) law…
Apple has hit back at today’s EU announcement that the company is one of six gatekeepers in the digital space, following the first landmark designation from the European Commission under its new Digital Markets Act. In a press release, the European Commission stated Wednesday that it “has today designated, for the first time, six gatekeepers – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple,…
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new iPhone coming at Apple’s September event and that means two things: You want a new iPhone and you need to sell your old one. If you buy your iPhone outright every year or two, you can usually recoup a good amount of the new cost by selling…
I remember when Clubhouse hit the scene in 2020 and became the go-to place to join large-scale audio conversations. Tons of influential people began hosting live chat rooms where anyone with a Clubhouse account could join and listen in on live conversations between a host and anyone else in the room that they wanted to…
