Google removed its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Gemini from the Google app for iOS devices, telling customers they can access the AI assistant by downloading the Gemini app from the App Store. The company delivered the news to customers in an email, TechCrunch reported Wednesday...
Apple is in court in the U.K. this week defending itself against monopoly-related charges. As Bloomberg News reported Monday (Jan. 13), the potentially $1.8 billion class action suit before London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal accuses the tech giant of holding millions of iPhone and iPad users “captive” and forcing...
Global consumer spending in mobile apps and games reportedly increased 15.7% year-over-year in 2024, even as the number of app downloads decreased by 2.3%. The year’s spending across Apple’s App Store and Google Play reached $127.3 billion, up from $110 billion the previous year, with a decline in Google...
Temu was the most downloaded free app in Apple’s App Store in 2024, Apple said Monday (Dec. 16). The app earned that ranking across iPhone and iPad, Apple said in a Monday press release. In 2023, when Apple broke down its rankings by device, Temu...
July 12, 2024
For Apple, the iPhone and the App Store have historically been linchpins for its ecosystem — where the hardware is an onramp to a broad range of services that forge a continuum of commerce, content and payments. But Apple’s opening its payments tech and its App store to rivals in Europe, which seemingly loosens some […]
January 30, 2019
It’s all about the ecosystem, not the iPhones. If there was one takeaway from the earnings call yesterday (Jan. 29) with Apple CEO Tim Cook, that would be it. Apple entered this earnings...
June 29, 2017
Ten years ago today, enthusiasts were waking up on the streets outside of Apple Stores nationwide in the hopes of getting their hands on the first-ever version of the iPhone....
April 06, 2025
Apple has reportedly decided to keep TikTok in its App Store for at least 75 more days. This decision came after the tech giant got a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi telling the company it should adhere to President Donald Trump’s executive order that will extend the pause on a U.S. TikTok ban, Bloomberg […]
February 19, 2025
Google removed its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Gemini from the Google app for iOS devices, telling customers they can access the AI assistant by downloading the Gemini app from the...
January 13, 2025
Apple is in court in the U.K. this week defending itself against monopoly-related charges. As Bloomberg News reported Monday (Jan. 13), the potentially $1.8 billion class action suit before London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal...
December 18, 2024
Global consumer spending in mobile apps and games reportedly increased 15.7% year-over-year in 2024, even as the number of app downloads decreased by 2.3%. The year’s spending across Apple’s App Store and Google...