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Walmart continues to veer away from Apple Pay support, relies on its own payment platform

While Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the United States, began rolling out support for Apple Pay in April, Walmart continues to resist adopting Apple’s payment platform. The company, in turn, has continued to push its own Walmart Pay platform. Whereas Apple Pay is contactless and requires users to simply tap their iPhone or Apple […]

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Rumor: Apple to begin mass producing its own microLED displays

When in doubt, roll your own. According to Nikkei Asia, Apple will begin mass producing its own microLED displays in order to lessen its reliance on Samsung, increase control over its supply chain, and lay the groundwork to realize its ultimate goal of bringing the technology to iPhones. Per sources close to the story, Apple […]

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Netflix begins cracking down on password sharing in several counties, change to arrive in the United States in Q2 2023

Netflix has begun cracking down on the password sharing that you’ve come to know and love. The company has begun enforcing the crackdown in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain. In its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday, Netflix revealed that it would expand its paid password sharing system to the United States within the next […]

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Rumor: Apple Pay Later beta testing expanding, monthly program may be in development

You can’t argue with paying later. When the Apple Pay Later feature was announced at WWDC 2022, the “buy now, pay later” feature has not yet launched to the public. This could soon change, as a report has suggested that Apple has “expanded an internal test” of the feature to its thousands of retail employees, […]

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Apple faces patent infringement-based legal action over pulse oximetry feature found in Apple Watch units

In the constant technology patent infringement war, wherein Apple often fights several legal battles at once, the latest case could theoretically lead to the ban of Apple Watch Series 6 and newer models in the United States. In 2021, Masimo, a company that makes medical-grade gadgets, sued Apple, saying that the blood oxygen monitoring feature […]