Published on: 2025-06-26 13:09:05
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. It’s finally possible to purchase an audiobook from Spotify’s iPhone app with just a few taps. On Monday, Spotify announced that Apple approved an update that allows users in the US to see audiobook pricing within the app and buy individual audiobooks outside the App Store. The update also lets Spotify Premium subscribers purchase additional audiob
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 12:17:00
Sony/CNET PlayStation 5 owners now have another way to fund their digital game purchases -- Apple Pay. You can now use the payment method natively on your console. However, Apple Pay isn't currently available on PS4 consoles. Here's how it works. Navigate to whichever purchase you're looking to make, choose your payment option on checkout, and select Apple Pay. You'll then be able to confirm your purchase using Apple Pay. You can save Apple Pay as your preferred payment method so it's as qui
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-17 12:41:00
A group of app developers have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple on the heels of a court ruling against the company for violating a 2021 injunction involving mobile purchases. The class action, filed on May 2, alleges that despite the injunction, Apple continued to block app developers from pointing users to in-app purchases and subscriptions outside of the company's own ecosystem, so that it wouldn't lose out on the 30% fee it charges to developers. Read more: Best iPhone in 2025 Th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 09:33:00
Forward-looking: Visa plans to allow AI agents to conduct financial transactions on behalf of consumers, a move that could streamline and automate everyday purchases. The company is currently running pilot programs that connect its payment network to AI platforms developed by firms such as Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI, Perplexity, and Mistral, with broader adoption expected soon. By bridging the gap between AI's growing capabilities and secure payment processing, Visa is positioning itself to p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 13:30:39
Apple has updated its App Store guidelines to comply with the orders of a California court, which required the company to immediately stop collecting commissions on purchases that weren't paid through the App Store. As noticed by 9to5Mac, the most prominent change in the guidelines states that there are now no prohibitions on "buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than in-app purchase," as long as it's for an app on the US storefro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 21:39:56
The company also announced a new way to go around the App Store. Epic Games just announced some changes to its store that should please budding developers. The company will not charge a commission of any kind for the first $1,000,000 in revenue from an app per year. Once a piece of software goes past that threshold, Epic will begin taking its standard rate of 12 percent. The policy goes into effect in June. This sounds like a real boon for smaller devs, especially when you consider that Steam
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-24 01:34:56
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Epic Games is making some big changes to its store to provide an enticing alternative to Apple’s in-app purchases for developers. The company is announcing the changes less than a day after a major court ruling that mandates that Apple can’t collect fees on purchases made outside of apps or restrict how they point to off-platform payments, meaning that more developers may choo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-24 00:05:45
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is pissed off at Apple. Really, really pissed off. In Rogers’ newly released 80-page decision, she took Apple and its executives to task for defying the court’s orders in its original case with Fortnite maker Epic Games. Though Apple largely won that round, as it was determined the tech giant was not a monopolist, the court decided that Apple was behaving in an anticompetitive fashion in one specific area: by not allowing app developers to offer their customers othe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-24 05:05:45
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is pissed off at Apple. Really, really pissed off. In Rogers’ newly released 80-page decision, she took Apple and its executives to task for defying the court’s orders in its original case with Fortnite maker Epic Games. Though Apple largely won that round, as it was determined the tech giant was not a monopolist, the court decided that Apple was behaving in an anticompetitive fashion in one specific area: by not allowing app developers to offer their customers othe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 06:00:36
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has ruled that Apple violated her own ruling back in 2021 on the lawsuit Epic Games filed against Apple a year before. Now, it's ordering (PDF) Apple to stop collecting commissions on purchases that weren't paid through the App Store effective immediately. In 2021, Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Apple did not hold an App Store monopoly. However, she also said that the company must allow developers to direct users to other payment systems that would let them bypass the 30
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 09:47:01
Customers walk past an Apple logo inside of an Apple store at Grand Central Station in New York on Aug 1, 2018. Apple willfully violated a 2021 injunction that came out of the Epic Games case, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a court filing on Wednesday. She wrote that Apple Vice President of Finance Alex Roman "outright lied" to the court about when Apple had decided to levy a 27% fee on some purchases linked to its App Store. "Neither Apple, nor its counsel, corrected the, now obvious,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 13:58:56
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. In a major ruling on Wednesday, a judge ruled that, effective immediately, Apple is no longer allowed to collect fees on purchases made outside apps and blocks the company from restricting how developers can point users to where they can make purchases outside of apps. The ruling was issued as part of Epic Games’ ongoing legal dispute against Apple, and it’s a major victory f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-26 11:03:04
Andy Walker / Android Authority It isn’t easy to keep up with the best new Android apps. Some might not be “new,” but they may still be new to you. Others often pass by without much fanfare. However, I’m here to help. Each month, I scoured the internet to find the best new Android apps and new Android games available, focusing on titles that offer something different to the status quo. Be sure to visit our lists of the best Android apps and best Android games of all time for the master lists.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-05 14:57:21
Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL;DR Google is pushing out a new swipe gesture feature for purchases made via Play Store billing. This forces you to swipe to confirm a purchase instead of using the one-tap buy button. The company previously said this feature is meant to prevent accidental purchases. Google allows you to authenticate your Play Store purchases with biometrics or a password. You can also set the frequency of purchase verification for maximum convenience. Now, it looks like the c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-16 04:41:00
Recap: A new survey spotlights the financial behaviors of young Japanese adults, revealing a significant and growing connection between gaming and personal spending. Conducted in February 2025, the annual online survey polled 1,000 individuals aged 20 to 29, exploring how this demographic navigates expenses across various aspects of life, with a particular focus on gaming and in-game purchases. One of the most striking findings of the survey is that 18.8 percent of respondents admitted to havin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-16 09:41:00
Recap: A new survey from SMBC Consumer Finance has spotlighted the financial behaviors of young Japanese adults, revealing a significant and growing connection between gaming and personal spending. Conducted in February 2025, the annual online survey polled 1,000 individuals aged 20 to 29, exploring how this demographic navigates expenses across various aspects of life, with a particular focus on gaming and in-game purchases. One of the most striking findings is that 18.8 percent of respondents
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-02 16:00:00
Google announced on Wednesday that kids with Android phones can now tap to pay at stores using Google Wallet in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, and Poland. Parents and guardians in these countries can now allow their children to access digital payments on their Android devices with supervision. Kids can also use Google Wallet to access supported passes, like event tickets, library cards, and gift cards. Google notes that a payment card can only be added with parental conse
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-30 19:19:38
Fifteen days ago, Apple released a tool for iPhone and iPad that allegedly allows you to migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another. The primary requirement is that you must be logged in with both Apple Accounts on the same iPhone or iPad. The only problem is that there are also secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, and denary requirements as well. There were so many requirements that I had to learn what comes after tertiary! Best of all is tha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-02 02:38:57
Apple has updated its support document for the recently introduced purchase migration tool, removing the EU and UK from the availability exclusion. India is the only remaining region listed where the Apple Account purchase migration tool isn’t offered. Apple introduced the tool for migrating purchases from one Apple Account to another Apple Account earlier this month. The feature works on iPhone or iPad when signed in with two different Apple Accounts on the same device: one for iCloud and anot
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-02 02:03:05
Akatsuki Games Inc. It can be tough to seek out all the best new Android apps. Some you may not have heard of, while others launch without much fanfare, but we’re here to help. We’ve scoured the internet to find the best new Android apps and new Android games available, focusing on titles that offer something different to the status quo. Be sure to visit our lists of the best Android apps and best Android games of all time. Non Stop Radio A global radio station app that’s great for Android Aut
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-06 14:19:38
Fifteen days ago, Apple released a tool for iPhone and iPad that allegedly allows you to migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another. The primary requirement is that you must be logged in with both Apple Accounts on the same iPhone or iPad. The only problem is that there are also secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, and denary requirements as well. There were so many requirements that I had to learn what comes after tertiary! Best of all is tha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-08 00:54:48
Apple Fellow Phil Schiller, the executive in charge of leading the App Store, testified in court on Monday that he had originally raised concerns about the 27% commission the iPhone maker planned to charge app developers on any purchases made outside the App Store. In addition to being a potential compliance risk, he suggested that the fee would create an “antagonistic relationship” between Apple and developers and seemed to require Apple to have audit rights to check whether or not they owed Ap
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