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Apple’s 15% Decision and How It Changes Epic’s Fight

Recently Apple announced that developers who make less then $1 million in revenue per year can apply to a reduced App Store charge from 30% to 15%. This seems to be a direct response to Epic Games’ exodus from the App Store and the related lawsuit accusing Apple’s 30% cut and the App Store ofContinue reading “Apple’s 15% Decision and How It Changes Epic’s Fight”

Time Flies Apple Event, GoPro, and Oculus Quest 2!

This week has been a crazy release week. We got a bunch of new products and all in a somewhat reasonable price category (all under $600 for base model). This week started off with Apple’s Time Flies event! This event was announced a week before and was expected to include Apple Watch and iPad, notContinue reading “Time Flies Apple Event, GoPro, and Oculus Quest 2!”

Huawei and US Companies

President Trump recently released an executive order that orders all US-based companies to stop working with the Chinese based company, Huawei Technologies. This has been expected for months after the reports of Huawei working with the Chinese government. This has not been proven yet, but is very likely, since Huawei is Chinese based. This isContinue reading “Huawei and US Companies”

WWDC 2019

Recently Apple held their World Wide Developer Conference, or WWDC. This is usually where Apple releases their latest versions of iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS and announces some other products. The past WWDC’s have not been very monumental, but this was very different. Apple did some crazy stuff. The first big thing they did wasContinue reading “WWDC 2019”

Galaxy Fold: Innovation at the Cost of Reliability

Folding phones may be the future of computing. The ability to have a bigger screen in a smaller footprint is something users are looking for. One of the first folding phones is the Samsung Galaxy Fold. The Galaxy Fold was first seen in November of 2018 as a part of a showcase of Samsung’s “InfinityContinue reading “Galaxy Fold: Innovation at the Cost of Reliability”

AT&T’s Fake 5G is on iPhone

(Image Credit: Screenshot of Apple’s iOS 12.2 release notes) (Image Credit: Screenshot of a 5Ge logo in the status bar on an iPhone XS) AT&T’s 5G Evolution or 5Ge is now on iPhone. I covered this a previous post (https://thesoftwareupdate.com/2019/03/08/atts-fake-5g/), but basically AT&T is showing a 5Ge logo when it’s actually LTE Advanced. This wasContinue reading “AT&T’s Fake 5G is on iPhone”

RIP AirPower 2017-2019

Apple’s charging mat is official dead. AirPower was announced in September of 2017 with the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X. It went alongside Apple’s addition of Qi wireless charging and was supposed to be an easy way to charge your AirPods, iPhone and Apple Watch. The cancelation was brought to us in a statementContinue reading “RIP AirPower 2017-2019”

Apple Card

(Image Credit: screenshot from Apple’s YouTube channel) If you asked me what I though Apple was going to release at their March 25th event I never would have said credit card, but they did it. Apple has released their own credit card called Apple Card. I’m not really going to get in to the creditContinue reading “Apple Card”

Apple Crazy Release Week

This week, Apple realeased a bunch of stuff. Apple really wanted people to pay attention to Apple. Many believe this is because they are finally releasing their streaming service (https://thesoftwareupdate.com/2019/01/14/why-is-every-company-making-a-streaming-service/) and are trying to get people attention. This is a very intresting tactic, that resulted in many of the releases getting buried, so let’s summarizeContinue reading “Apple Crazy Release Week”

WWDC19 Dates Announced

(Image Credit: Image included in the email Apple sent) Today, Apple finally sent out the announcement for their Worldwide Developer Conference or WWDC. WWDC19 will be on June 3-7 in San Jose, CA and had an interesting theme in the email. Apple keeps everthing they announce very secured, so we don’t know exactly what theyContinue reading “WWDC19 Dates Announced”