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”
Category Archives: Apple
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!”
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”
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”
AT&T’s Fake 5G
Image Credit: Screenshot from one of AT&T’s “just ok is not ok” commercials You may have recently seen one of AT&T’s “just ok is not ok” commercial. This is a recent ad campaign focused on AT&T’s recent announcement of AT&T 5G Evolution or 5Ge. Now, before you run out and buy a brand newContinue reading “AT&T’s Fake 5G”
Update your iPhone to iOS 12.1.4 NOW!
Many people have been very scared by the recently Group FaceTime bug. This bug allowed to listen and watch anyone with Group FaceTime without them picking up the phone. This made many people very stressed out, prompting many people to turn off FaceTime, until on February 1st when Apple turned off Group FaceTime. This wasContinue reading “Update your iPhone to iOS 12.1.4 NOW!”
The Software Update 