Apple has fired back at Spotify’s antitrust complaint, saying the music streaming giant wants all the benefits of its app store without contributing to the marketplace.
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Apple, after teasing investors for months about its ambitions to become a services company, is getting ready to showcase plans for new video and news products. All it needs now is for Hollywood to sign up.
Spotify has submitted a complaint against Apple to the European Commission arguing that the iPhone maker gives itself an unfair advantage by charging digital app rivals a 30% “tax” on purchases made through iOS.
Apple continues to struggle with iPhone demand, with trends going “from bad to worse”, according to Longbow Research.
Apple has announced an event on 25 March where the iPhone maker is expected to introduce an original video programming service and a new premium magazine subscription plan.
To US President Donald Trump, it was an awkward slip of the tongue. To Apple CEO Tim Cook, it was an opportunity to poke some sly fun at a president who has often clashed with the tech industry.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak doesn’t want to wait for a folding iPhone.
Samsung Electronics and Huawei Technologies watched as Apple first priced a mass market smartphone at more than $1 000 – and now have upped the ante with new models at almost double that cost.
Samsung Electronics debuted its most extensive new line-up of smartphones, taking on Apple in a slowing market with 3D cameras, an in-screen fingerprint scanner and faster 5G connectivity and a device with a folding screen.
Apple wants to make it easier for software coders to create tools, games and other applications for its main devices in one fell swoop – an overhaul designed to encourage app development.