Only a day after the U.S. Department of Justice filed an omnibus antitrust lawsuit against Apple, consumers filed a trio of class-action lawsuits for allegedly monopolizing the smartphone market. The DOJ filed its antitrust lawsuit against Apple as of March 20, following a five-year investigation into the company’s business practices. Almost immediately after, at least […]
Because bug fixes can’t hurt. Apple on Thursday released iOS 17.4.1 and iPadOS 17.4.1, minor updates to its mobile operating systems. The updates arrive two weeks after the company’s large-scale iOS 17.4 and iPad OS 17.4.1 updates and offer bug fixes and security updates. As usual, the updates can be downloaded by navigating to Settings […]
When attorneys clash, legal events transpire. A series of developments occurred on Wednesday between Apple and several of its largest App Store opponents. First, in a new amicus brief filed in the United States today, Meta, Microsoft, X, and Match Group have teamed up to oppose Apple’s proposed anti-steering changes in the United States. Following […]
Apple may be considering a licensing deal to incorporate Google’s controversial Gemini generative AI technology into iOS to help improve Siri. Apple has now regularly been reported to be planning an AI improvement for Siri and to launch an iOS with much more integrated and prominent AI at WWDC 2024. A report from Bloomberg claims […]
Every so often, Apple goes shopping for businesses or technologies it believes will be useful down the road. The company acquired Canada-based DarwinAI earlier this year as part of an effort to build out its AI team. DarwinAI created AI technology for inspecting components during the manufacturing process, and it also had a focus on […]