In court documents filed Wednesday, Apple called the district court's order "extraordinary" and argued it unlawfully forces the company to permanently give up control over "core aspects of its business operations."
"A federal court cannot force Apple to permanently give away free access to its products and services, including intellectual property," Apple's lawyers wrote in the motion.
Apple executive Eddie Cue said that Apple is "actively looking at" shifting the focus of mobile Safari's search experience to AI search engines, potentially challenging Google's longstanding search dominance and the two companies' lucrative default search engine deal. The statements were made while Cue testified for the US Department of Justice in the Alphabet/Google antitrust trial, as first reported in Bloomberg.
Cue noted that searches in Safari fell for the first time ever last year, and attributed the shift to users increasingly using large language model-based solutions to perform their searches.
Google released a short statement on its blog that seems to run counter to what Cue said yesterday. Google said that it continues to see increasing engagement with search, including on Apple devices.
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While there isn’t enough detail to fully explain the discrepancy, perhaps Cue was referring to usage inside Safari and Google is suggesting that usage through other means on Apple’s platforms — through Google’s apps in the App Store for instance — makes up for that gap.
Essentially, Apple is taking live Shazam data from each day and funneling it into the new playlist.
That means the Viral Chart playlist will be updated daily, so it always features the top 50 songs that Shazam users are discovering within a given 24-hour period.
One of Apple’s biggest series will start streaming again this summer. The company announced that season 3 of Foundation will hit Apple TV Plus on July 11th, with new episodes weekly through September 12th. As part of the announcement, Apple also released the first teaser for the third season.
The path of the iMac seems obvious in hindsight. But it had a huge impact on today’s Mac, today’s Apple, and really the entire technology world of today. The iMac spirit lives on–as does the iMac itself.
That first iMac was the first Mac that gave us a good Mac experience without the then-traditional high price of a Mac.
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