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!”

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”

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”

The Battle for Educational Devices

If you have been following tech news this year. You would have noticed that Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all trying to make devices cheaper and more friendly. They are all competing for the education space. School systems will pay thousands of dollars for devices, charging carts, accessories and software. So all these companies wantContinue reading “The Battle for Educational Devices”