‘Huawei working with Chinese group to create Google Play competitor’
Worldwide, Huawei, Xiaomi, Vivo and OPPO have a market share of over forty percent. Those companies are rumoured to be working together to make better use of that share. According to Reuters, an they are attempting to offer an alternative to the popular Google Play Store by developing a platform th... Read more
Apple offers devs the ability to combine apps as a single purchase
A surprise from Apple for developers: developers who create an application that is available for various Apple devices can, from now on, combine them under one overarching category. Users will then be able to purchase for all available platforms, in a single purchase.
The update will be rolled o... Read more
Apple has unfair dominance in its own search results
Apple would routinely put its own mobile apps at the top of the search results in the App Store. This also puts itself above the competition, with which it gains the upper hand in a marketplace that annually sells 50 billion dollars.
Apple apps are at the top of more than 60 percent of basic searche... Read more
Apple indicted by developers for monopoly App Store
Two developers are suing Apple in the United States. The developers claim that the company has had a monopoly on the sale and distribution of iOS apps for many years. The two argue for the arrival of new app stores for iOS.
The lawsuit must become a class action, which means that it may represent a... Read more
Very popular macOS app turned out to contain spyware
A number of apps have been found in the MacOS App Store that are used to spy on consumers and steal their data. The apps have been removed by Apple, but would have been very popular.
Security firm Malwarebytes reported this yesterday. Security researcher Patrick Wardle also wrote an extensive blog a... Read more