News Netflix Introduces Subscription Payment Option That Bypasses the App Store Earlier this year, Apple began allowing some apps to use external links to let their users log in and pay for subscriptions outside of the Apple Store. Netflix is now launching an option in its iOS app that takes users to its website to finish a new subscription.
News Apple Now Lets Users Rate Its Own Apps on the App Store After the release of iOS 15, where Apple added the ability to let users rate its own apps in the App Store, users began to express their dissatisfaction with the apps they use by giving low ratings and leaving negative reviews.
BigTech Epic Games Appeals Ruling in the Lawsuit Against Apple Epic Games failed to convince the court that Apple holds a monopoly position. The court also concluded that Epic Games violated the contract it had with Apple when it added an alternative payment method to Fortnite.
News Apple Removes Anti-Vaxx Dating App Unjected From App Store Apple removed Unjected, a dating app for people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19, from its App Store because this app violated the store's rules regarding coronavirus misinformation.
BigTech The Judge to Issue a Verdict in the Epic vs. Apple Trial by Mid-August Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers joked that she would try to issue a verdict by August 13. On this day last year, Epic Games launched a campaign to challenge the size of the commission on the App Store.
BigTech Apple CEO Tim Cook Testified in a Trial Against Epic Games Denying Epic Games' claim that Apple is solely driven by profit motives, Tim Cook noted that banning competing app stores and reviewing all apps sold on the App Store ensures users' safety.
BigTech Apple Could Be Fined up to $27 Billion for Violating EU Antitrust Laws The European agency's charges focus on two App Store rules: the need to use an embedded payment system with an accompanying 30 percent fee to Apple, and a ban on informing users about alternative purchase options outside the app.
BigTech Former US Ambassador Demands to Remove Telegram From Google Play and App Store The president of the Coalition for a Safer Web, a group that advocates removing extremist content from social media, Marc Ginsberg, demanded that Alphabet remove the Telegram messenger from Google Play.
BigTech WhatsApp Users Began to Download Alternative Messengers Massively WhatsApp users started to download alternative messengers due to the new WhatsApp privacy policy.
