This holiday season, Apple Arcade is building on its award-winning catalog with eight new games for families and friends to enjoy together, including Disney Dreamlight Valley Arcade Edition, Football Manager 2024 Touch, Sonic Dream Team, and Puzzle & Dragons Story, along with more than 50 updates to existing titles on the service.
In a first for Apple, the company is partnering with an in-person gym to provide members with access to Apple Fitness+. Starting in December, Anytime Fitness members will gain access to the digital workout service for no additional charge.
The lower-cost Apple Music Voice Plan was discontinued today, with references to the plans removed from Apple's website in all countries where it was available.
Your mileage may vary, but it’s been a long time since I last found my laptop to be unacceptably sluggish; more processing power isn’t all that alluring on its own. But I am excited about what AI might do for my computing experiences in the years to come. And if that AI runs right on a Mac or Windows PC—which will be a boon for privacy, real-time performance, and general integration into the apps I use—it will require processors the likes of which we haven’t seen until now.
Apple Inc on Wednesday lost a bid to block a mass London lawsuit worth up to $2 billion which accuses the tech giant of hiding defective batteries in millions of iPhones.
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His lawyers argued Apple concealed issues with batteries in certain phone models by "throttling" them with software updates and installed a power management tool which limited performance.
Apple, however, said the lawsuit was "baseless" and strongly denied batteries in iPhones were defective, apart from in a small number of iPhone 6s models for which it offered free battery replacements.
The Dutch consumer watchdog is challenging the fees that Apple charges dating app providers in the Netherlands as part of its long-running case against the U.S. technology company over the dominance of its app store, according to a filing seen by Reuters.
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"Apple ... harms dating app providers by charging them an additional, and inexplicably higher, fee for the same services" it does other types of app makers, it said in the document.
Mac users can easily spot apps that are lazily ported over from Windows or (in the past) DOS. Can Apple Arcade gamers also spot games that are 'lazily' ported over from the universe of in-app purchases?
(I sure can identify a few. And those are the games that interest me the least.)
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