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Apple on Tuesday said Phil Schiller, one of its most publicly visible executives, is leaving his post as senior vice president of worldwide marketing to become an "Apple Fellow" but will retain leadership of the App Store.Greg Joswiak, who previously oversaw marketing of Apple's products, will take over for Schiller as senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Apple said.In addition to overseeing the App Store, Schiller, who is known for his on-stage appearances to introduce new Apple products, will continue to…

Apple has brought the first beta releases of iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5 for developers to test ahead of their public debut. The new beta releases come just a month after the public launch of iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4. In terms of new additions, the iOS 15.5 beta release is said to have included the code to enable support for apps with external purchases. Apple is also reported to have included some references about the Apple Classical app that could be aimed at giving a classical music collection — alongside the regular…

As global downloads of games and non-games apps reached 35 billion in the second quarter of this year, spending on apps has overtaken games on the Apple App Store for the first time ever in the US.According to Sensor Tower, spending on non-games has grown at more than twice the rate as games on the App Store in the US, with a compound annual growth rate of 40 percent since June 2014.The total revenue generated by non-game apps was higher for the quarter, reaching nearly $3.4 billion on the US App Store, compared with $3.3…

Apple on Thursday released the list of its 2021 App Store Award winners to highlight the 15 best apps and games of the year across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and the Apple TV. The list includes kids-focussed app Toca Life: World, video editor LumaFusion, documents and notes app Craft, and live sports streaming platform DAZN. On the gaming part, the Cupertino company chose League of Legends: Wild Rift, Marvel Future Revolution, Myst, and Space Marshals 3 as the best titles on the App Store. Apple said that all…

PUBG developer Krafton has filed a lawsuit against Garena, Apple, and Google. Krafton alleged that Garena – which released battle royale games Free Fire and Free Fire Max – has copied PUBG: Battlegrounds and is suing Apple and Google for distributing the games on their respective app stores. Krafton also accused Google of hosting videos on YouTube that show the gameplay of Garena's Free Fire and Free Fire Max. Krafton has also allegedly taken a few actions against battle royale games in question.As per the complaint of…

Truecaller has released a new real-time audio chat app called Open Doors on Wednesday, July 13. The caller identification service company said that the new app will be available globally for free via Google Play Store and Apple App Store. According to the company, it works seamlessly across both platforms. Truecaller users can get started using the app with a single to tap to sign in. People who are not Truecaller users can sign in to Open Doors by verifying their phone number through a missed call or a one-time-password…

Apple's Purchase Sharing is not working in India. The opt-in feature is available as a part of Family Sharing and is meant to let users share their purchased albums, apps, movies, songs, and TV shows with family members. Once turned on, Purchase Sharing lets all people in a family group access the content that family members buy. The family organiser is billed for these purchases. Apple is showing an error to users when they try to enable the feature in India.Users get a pop-up with the error that reads, "Add a payment…

Google has announced the roll out of Switch to Android applications for all Android 12 smartphones. The application was earlier only available for Google's Pixel smartphones. Google had previously rolled out the application for iOS smartphones via the Apple App Store. The application will help Apple iPhone users to switch seamlessly to Android smartphones running Android 12. This will provide convenience to transfer the videos, images, and contact from iPhones to Android smartphones wirelessly. Google's Switch to Android…

Image Source : INDIA TV Road to Valor: Empires KRAFTON, Inc. has announced that the game Road to Valor: Empires, the real-time player-versus-player (PvP) strategy (RTS) game has been released worldwide and could be downloaded from Google Play and Apple’s App Store. Road to Valor: Empires is the sequel to Road to Valor: World War II game which was launched earlier last year (in January 2019) and got more than 3 million downloads, claims the company.  HOW TO PLAY: In this mobile PvP RTS game, players can become…

Image Source : INDIA TV Apple App Store Apple had announced in 2020 that it has been protecting the customers from more than $1.5 billion USD fraudulent transactions on the App Store. Apple has stated that they have been managing to keep almost a million new apps off the store which could be problematic for the users in 2020. And in 2021, these apps have gone up and numbers have just gone up. In an annual update to the analysis which Apple shared last year, the company has further announced that $1.5 billion-worth…