Apple is reportedly working on bringing Apple Pay to India sometime this year. That’s according to a report Wednesday (Jan. 21) from the website Moneycontrol, citing sources familiar with the matter. They say the tech giant is holding talks with card networks including Mastercard and...
Apple has tapped Google to power a new artificial intelligence (AI)-centric version of Siri. The two tech giants announced a partnership Monday (Jan. 12), saying the next iteration of Apple’s Foundational Models will be based on Google’s Gemini models and cloud tech. These models will...
Apple’s services strategy is anchored in hardware, turning devices into gateways for recurring engagement across payments, commerce and content. Financial services are increasingly part of that design, where consumers already authenticate, store credentials and transact. That strategy’s latest chapter comes as Apple announced Wednesday (Jan....
Apple is scaling back the Vision Pro after weak sales. For the payments ecosystem, it is a sign that “spatial computing” will remain a niche channel for shopping, identity and in-app spending for now. In a Jan. 1 report, the Financial Times said Apple has cut...
A collection of app developers and consumer groups want Europe to enforce laws against Apple. The Coalition of App Fairness (CAF) on Monday (Dec. 15) issued an open letter to the European Commission (EC) accusing the tech giant of “persistent” non-compliance with Europe’s Digital Markets...
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said Thursday (Dec. 12) that a federal appeals court’s decision in the company’s long-running legal battle with Apple marks “the beginning of true, untaxed competition in payments worldwide on iOS.” The appeals court rejected Apple’s challenge to a judge’s ruling...
A federal appeals court handed Apple a victory and a loss in the company’s long-running legal battle with Epic Games. The court ruled that a district court judge must consider allowing Apple to collect a commission on transactions made outside its App Store, though not...
Smartphone companies in China are reportedly promoting apps to help customers switch from the iPhone. That’s according to a report Sunday (Dec. 7) by the Financial Times (FT), which characterizes this as a bid by these companies to capture market share as Apple struggles to...
The wave of executive departures hitting Apple recently may not yet have crested. Johny Srouji, senior vice president of hardware technologies, recently informed CEO Tim Cook that he is thinking seriously about stepping down in the near future, Bloomberg News reported Saturday (Dec. 6), citing sources...