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Google bans Parler from Android app store

Timothy B. Lee · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Saturday, 9 January, 2021 - 02:10

Enlarge / Google's corporate headquarters. (credit: Alex Tai | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images )

Google has banned the conservative social media app Parler from its Play Store for Android.

In a statement to Ars, Google said it was enforcing long-standing policies requiring that social media apps remove "egregious content like posts that incite violence."

" We’re aware of continued posting in the Parler app that seeks to incite ongoing violence in the US," a Google spokesman told Ars. "In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app’s listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues."

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Apple’s app store is an illegal monopoly, rival Cydia claims in suit

Timothy B. Lee · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 11 December, 2020 - 20:15

Apple’s app store is an illegal monopoly, rival Cydia claims in suit

The company behind Cydia, an iPhone app store that launched before Apple's own App Store, has sued Apple arguing that Apple has monopolized the market for iOS app stores, violating antitrust law in the process.

When the iPhone was introduced in 2007, it didn't have any mechanism for natively running third-party software. Instead, Steve Jobs encouraged developers to create Web apps that would run in the iPhone's Safari browser.

But people soon figured out how to jailbreak the iPhone and began making iPhone apps without Apple's help. Seeing an opportunity, software developer Jay Freeman created a program called Cydia that made it easy for users to download and install native iPhone apps—an app store before the App Store.

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Xbox cloud gaming service hits iOS, Windows PCs in spring 2021

Samuel Axon · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 17:17

Enlarge / This demonstration of Microsoft's Project xCloud as played with a Razer Kishi controller, attached to a standard Android smartphone, could be a hint of what's to come to iOS devices in Spring of 2021. (credit: Microsoft)

In a blog post today outlining everything from upcoming games to plans for Xbox Series X/S, Microsoft announced that Xbox cloud gaming will come to iOS mobile devices and Windows PCs in spring of 2021.

On Windows PCs, the games will stream through the Xbox app or a Web browser, whereas the service will be limited to the mobile Web browser on iOS devices.

Microsoft's game streaming features require an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, which also includes an on-demand library of downloadable games for both Xbox platforms and Windows PCs, the EA Play downloadable game library, as well Xbox Live Gold, the company's online multiplayer service.

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Spotify et Epic s’insurgent contre la baisse de la taxe Apple sur l’App Store

Julien Lausson · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 18 November, 2020 - 17:47

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Ni Spotify ni Epic n'approuvent la baisse annoncée par Apple sur l'App Store pour les développeurs de petite et moyenne envergure. Et les deux entreprises le font savoir. [Lire la suite]

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Apple lowers its cut of App Store revenues for some developers

Samuel Axon · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 18 November, 2020 - 17:20

Enlarge / Apple's App Store. (credit: Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images )

In one of the biggest changes to the App Store model ever, Apple today announced that the majority of third-party developers releasing apps and games on the company's App Store will see a reduction in Apple's cut of revenues from 30% to 15%. The company calls it the App Store Small Business Program, and it aims to improve the company's standing in public perception and antitrust battles while minimally impacting its own bottom line.

The program is opt-in, and any developer whose combined revenue across all their apps was less than $1 million in the previous year (or any developers new to the App Store) can apply and be accepted. The revenue measure at play here includes not just app purchases, but in-app purchase (IAP) and subscriptions revenue.

If during the course of the year the developer surpasses the $1 million threshold, the 30% rate will kick back into effect for the remainder of that year. If the developer falls below the threshold again, they'll receive the 15% rate once more the following year.

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Apple baisse sa commission App Store à 15 % pour les petits développeurs

Julien Cadot · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 18 November, 2020 - 11:00

Pour la deuxième fois depuis la création de l'App Store, Apple module la commission sur les ventes prélevée aux développeurs en échange des services. Elle passe à 15 % au lieu de 30 % pour les développeurs générant moins d'un million de dollars de chiffre d'affaires annuel. [Lire la suite]

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Microsoft thumbs its nose at Apple with new “app fairness” policy

Kate Cox · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 9 October, 2020 - 19:22 · 1 minute

Enlarge / Microsoft sign at the entrance of their Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, California. (credit: Nicolas McComber | Getty Images )

Microsoft this week adopted a whole slew of "fairness principles" for its Windows app store. The list of principles does look like a decent set of guidelines for both consumers and developers—but it also looks a whole lot like Microsoft is taking the metaphorical ball, throwing it at Apple's face, and daring their iCompetitor to make the next move.

The principles, which Microsoft listed in a corporate blog post , essentially promise that Windows will keep on doing what it already does with regard to app distribution, interoperability, payment systems, and everything else.

The first item, for example, promises that developers may choose whether to distribute Windows programs through the Microsoft Store or through their own competing app storefronts. This has always been the case, and it's why Steam, the Epic Games store, and every other Windows software distribution method exist. Windows also promises not to block an app from Windows "based on a developer's choice of which payment system to use" for processing in-app purchases which, again, is why and how both Web-based and app-based digital software storefronts for Windows exist.

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Spotify, Deezer, Fortnite, Tinder et Meetic s’unissent pour tenter de faire plier Apple

Julien Lausson · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 25 September, 2020 - 12:47

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Dans le cadre d'une coalition, plusieurs entreprises ont décidé de joindre leurs forces pour tenter de forcer Apple à cesser ses pratiques anticoncurrentielles. [Lire la suite]

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La justice autorise Apple à bloquer Fortnite de son App Store

Marie Turcan · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 25 August, 2020 - 08:50

Une juge américaine vient de décider qu'Apple était en droit de bloquer l'application Fortnite de son App Store. Mais ce jugement est préliminaire, en l'attente d'une décision plus permanente. [Lire la suite]

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