If Apple Loses Its App Store Antitrust Case, What Happens Next?
Apple’s notorious for strict regulations; the company only allows its iPhone and iPad customers to access apps from one store (the App Store) that pre-approves apps before publishing them. But this practice is creating an anti-competitive monopoly, says a lawsuit by Apple customers against Apple. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take over the case […]
Apple Restricts Developers from Selling User Contact Data
Apple’s trying to avoid a data abuse probe, similar to what happened with Facebook’s recent data scandal. Facebook’s data abuse scandal happened because the company was too lax in what permissions and information it allowed developers to access. Consequently, when a Facebook app developer sold the data he’d mined from a quiz he’d built, Facebook […]
Companies like Spotify and Dropbox Are Changing the I.P.O. Landscape
Companies like Dropbox and Spotify are changing what initial public offerings (IPOs) mean for Silicon Valley and the U.S. economy. With Snapchat and Blue Apron hitting IPO status and seeing quickly-dropped share prices, startups who find success with private funding are no longer guaranteed the same results when it comes time for a public investment. […]
James Comey Says Apple and Google’s Encryptions ‘Drove Me Crazy’
The U.S. government is in an internal war; the White House and the FBI are pitted against each other by accusations, conspiracy theories, and Russian election meddling suspicions. Besides all of this, the U.S. government is also having a tough time getting along with many tech titans and developers in San Francisco. Recently, Mark Zuckerberg […]
Just How Smart Should Our Cameras Be?
It’s always been of paramount importance for tech companies to strike that fine balance between privacy and innovation. In the case of cameras, we want to control what they record or take a picture of (obviously). Clips, a new camera from Google asks us to trust it with this decision. It also gives us a deeper look […]
The Main Obstacles in Blockchain’s Way to Mainstream Use
By now, you’ve probably read a few articles that wax poetic about the plethora of benefits that blockchain development offers. These articles would have you believe that this disruptive technology is bound to change absolutely everything. While the hype surrounding blockchain is unreal, the potential actually is there for it to make a substantial global […]
These New AR Apps Will Take Your Drone Flying Skills to New Heights
Drone app development and Augmented Reality (AR) each have so much occurring in their respective fields that it’s hard to imagine what would happen if you combined them. Two new novel concepts from Epson and DroneBase are demonstrating that this crossover has tremendous potential for innovation. Simulate Drone Flying Before Taking to the Real Skies In Long […]
Apple’s Next iPhone May Have Lasers for Augmented Reality
iPhone app developers, we hope you’ve been studying up on your optics. The iPhone X may have just become available at the beginning of this month, but there’s already news about its successor. Bloomberg recently reported that Apple is considering incorporating a laser in the next iPhone iteration to improve Augmented Reality (AR) applications. Transforming the […]
What Can iOS App Developers Expect at This Year’s WWDC?
This year’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference kicks off next week, and as always, iOS app developers are buzzing about what will be unveiled this year. Lately it seems that Apple has been taking a drubbing in the press for falling into a post-Jobs innovation slump, so the pressure is on this year to stir up […]