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Visa has reportedly offered to hand over $100 million to Apple in order to take over payment processing for its credit card, replacing Mastercard. The offer comes as Apple is in the process of replacing Goldman Sachs as the issuing bank of Apple Card after that company decided to get out of the consumer lending business. The offer was reported on Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal, which says...
Continue Reading on http://gizmodo.com/Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.4 update to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming two days after Apple released macOS Sequoia 15.4. Registered developers can opt-in to the macOS Sequoia beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. An Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the...
Continue Reading on http://www.macrumors.com/AirPods Max users have been left unable to download Apple's new firmware update bringing lossless and low-latency audio support to the headphones, owing to a software bug with iOS 18.4, MacRumors can confirm. Apple officially announced the new feature support for AirPods Max last week. Then on Monday, Apple released an AirPods Max (USB-C) firmware update version 7E99 in tandem with the...
Continue Reading on http://www.macrumors.com/Apple's big developer event is a little over two months away, and rumors about what we can expect to see in Apple's next major operating system updates are becoming increasingly frequent. A public release of iOS 18.4 is also imminent with a number of updates and improvements, although we won't be getting the major Apple Intelligence Siri upgrades that had reportedly been planned for this...
Continue Reading on http://www.macrumors.com/We've been hearing rumors about a foldable iPhone for almost a decade now, but it looks like we might finally see the device come to fruition in 2026. We're going to be waiting many more months for the foldable iPhone, but so far we're hearing good things. Apple wants to make it creaseless. It's taken Apple multiple years to design a foldable iPhone that it's satisfied with because Apple...
Continue Reading on http://www.macrumors.com/Summary Apple is reportedly planning to release a significantly slimmer iPhone as part of its iPhone 17 lineup. The sleeker design could help reinvigorate interest in iPhones amid stable but challenged sales performance. Apple faces pressure from consumers holding onto phones longer and losing ground in the Chinese market. Rivals like Samsung and Oppo have already released thinner...
Continue Reading on https://edition.cnn.com/business/techA version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. New York CNN — Apple has been getting hammered in tech and financial media for its uncharacteristically messy foray into artificial intelligence. After a June event heralding a new AI-powered Siri, the company has delayed its release indefinitely. The AI features Apple has...
Continue Reading on https://edition.cnn.com/business/techNew York CNN — When Apple unveiled its revamped Siri last June, the company called it “the start of a new era” for the 13-year-old digital helper. It demonstrated how the virtual assistant would be able to cross-reference a user’s emails, texts and real-time flight data to answer complex questions, such as “When is my mom’s flight landing?” followed by “What’s our lunch plan?” It turns out...
Continue Reading on https://edition.cnn.com/business/techApple is upgrading its app safety offerings later this year, including new age assurance policies intended to wade into the online child protection debate. According to a recently published white paper, the company plans to expand its Child Account settings, App Store Age Ranges, and provide avenues for app developers to set more comprehensive age-restriction settings for minor...
Continue Reading on https://mashable.com/techAdvertisers and ad-funded platforms like Facebook have been vocal in their objections to Apple’s app tracking policies, and the Cupertino company now faces antitrust investigations into the issue in two European countries. A new report says that the French Competition Authority has found evidence of anticompetitive behavior by Apple in regard to app tracking, closely following a similar...
Continue Reading on https://daringfireball.net/An App Tracking Transparency antitrust investigation is underway, on the basis that Apple requires third-party apps to ask permission for tracking, but the company does not do so for its own apps. The investigation has been launched in Germany, which is a somewhat surprising fact … That’s because App Tracking Transparency (ATT) is designed to protect user privacy, and Germany has a...
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