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Apple has removed Meta’s WhatsApp and Threads apps from the App Store in China. The company did this after an order from the Chinese government, due to concerns about national security, Reuters reports. China’s Cyberspace Administration ordered the removal of these apps from the storefront in China for national security reasons. We are obliged to […]
Yesterday, Apple issued an order regarding iOS apps – developers who meet the company’s criteria (including the conditions for notarization of apps) will be able to offer their iPhone apps for direct download from websites to EU users. This is a big change for the Apple ecosystem, which has strictly prohibited third-party downloads. In the […]
Apple has started piloting a new App Store feature called “conditional pricing.” It is expected to help developers attract customers with cheaper subscriptions based on other purchases. The conditional pricing model will allow developers to offer discounts to customers who already have subscriptions to other services, whether they are their own apps or those of […]
It turns out that the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, is already thinking about the release of his alternative smartphone. What does it mean? This will happen if Apple and Google remove the Twitter app from their App Store and Google Play. Liz Wheeler, an author and podcast host, asked Musk a question (or, […]
On October 25, Apple announced that companies can advertise their apps on the pages of other apps in the App Store by placing their icon in the ‘You may also like’ section. However, this was not to the liking of the majority of developers – in some places the advertising was too inappropriate. This was […]
The companies conducted a major ‘cleaning’ of their branded online application stores. According to Pixalate, a total of 592,000 apps were removed from the Apple Store and Google Play in the second quarter of this year. In the first quarter, 220,000 applications were removed. This time, Apple removed 439 thousand applications at once. The main […]
Russian users began to report the impossibility of connecting MTS and Beeline accounts to the Apple ecosystem. When trying to make a purchase, they are asked to try again later, and when making a payment method – does not send a confirmation code. A number of specialized Russian media write about it. It is noted […]
According to research by Sensor Tower, after the start of the war in Ukraine, 6,982 iPhone and iPad applications were removed from the Russian section of the App Store. Source: TechCrunch In total, these programs have been installed in Russia about 218 million times – about 3% of the global number of installations (6.6 billion) […]