EU Pricing Information in Spotify App

Jess Weatherbed (MacRumors, Slashdot): Spotify will begin showing in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the European Union starting today, following a yearslong legal battle against Apple. In an update to an old blog post, Spotify says that…

Creator Platforms and the App Store

Hamish McKenzie: But creators aren’t Apple’s traditional customers. They’re not app makers or game developers. They don’t actually have a piece of real estate in the App Store. They instead find their distribution through media platforms, including …

U.S. Considers Breaking Up Google as Antitrust Remedy

Apple: iOS 18.1 Will Offer API for Third-Party Apps to Offer In-App NFC Transactions Using the Secure Element

After Years of Legal Wrangling, Apple Now Allows Spotify to Show EU Users Pricing in App, and Tells Them They Can Sign Up on the Web

AT&T Says It Won’t Carry Google’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold

Google’s Pixel 9 Launch Event

New Distraction Control Safari Feature Is Now Available in the iOS 18 and MacOS 15 Betas

Subtle Tweaks to the Harris/Walz Logo

Google’s Pixel 9 Launch Event

‘He Sounded Like a Disoriented, Racist Daffy Duck’

Patreon Should Consider Calling Apple on Its Threats

iDOS 3 in the App Store

Jay Peters (Slashdot): But in July, Apple reversed course and approved UTM SE, and earlier this month, it added the words “PC emulator” to guideline 4.7, which is seemingly why iDOS 3 has now been allowed on the App Store. Filipe Espósito: As for iD…

Wrong About the App Store

David Barnard: For almost 16 years now, tweet after tweet, blog post after blog post, I’ve implored Apple to do better by developers and App Store customers in a million different ways. And implied (if not said directly) that if they didn’t, the imp…

Creator Platforms Should Be a Special Category on the App Store

Nick Heer on Patreon Creators Paying the Full 30 Percent App Store Rate for New Subscriptions

Nick Heer on Patreon Creators Paying the Full 30 Percent App Store Rate for New Subscriptions

Patreon Had Spent a Decade in an App Store Gray Zone

‘Apple’s Requirements to Hit Creators and Fans on Patreon’

‘Objects of Our Life’ — Steve Jobs at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen

Apple Going After Patreon

Sarah Perez (MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple has threatened to remove crowdfunding app Patreon from the App Store if creators continue to use unsupported third-party billing options or disable transactions on iOS, instead of using Apple’s o…