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Apple on Wednesday acknowledged its strict App Store policies saying that it blocked potentially fraudulent transactions worth around $1.5 billion (roughly Rs. 11,021 crore) last year. The Cupertino giant claimed that it wiped out over 1.6 million risky and vulnerable apps and app updates from defrauding users. In 2021, with the App Review process, apps from more than 107,000 new developers landed on the store. Apple rejected 34,000 apps for privacy violations, while 157,000 apps were rejected for being described as…

Google TV app, which aggregates content recommendations from streaming services and lets users create a universal watchlist of their favorites, is now available on iOS.The tech giant said that it will replace the previous Google Play Movies and TV app in the App Store, so if users have already got that installed, they should be able to update it to the Google TV experience.The software, already available on Android, also allows users to rate what they have previously viewed to improve future recommendations.More important…

Elon Musk has slammed Apple for its App Store commission that it charges from developers, in response to an article posted on Twitter about the European Union's fresh antitrust complaint against the iPhone maker. Musk said that it is "definitely not ok" and likened the commission to a 30 percent tax on the Internet. Last year, the Tesla CEO publicly favoured Fortnite maker Epic Games in the lawsuit filed by it against Apple for allegedly abusing its dominance in the mobile apps market.In a series of tweets posted in…

The Dutch consumer watchdog on Wednesday said it had launched a preliminary investigation into Google over its Play store for apps, months after targeting fellow tech giant Apple.The Match Group, which owns dating site Tinder, lodged a complaint saying that Google only allowed its own payment system to be used when purchasing apps, the Authority for Consumers and Markets said.Google Play is used to buy applications to be used on smartphones and tablets using Google's Android system, which together with Apple dominates the…

Apple has stopped accepting card payments for subscriptions and app purchases using Apple ID in India. This means that you are no longer able to use your Indian credit or debit card to buy apps from the App Store, get Apple subscriptions such as iCloud+ and Apple Music, or purchase any media content from Apple. The change has come as a result of the new auto-debit rules from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) that came into force last year and are disrupting recurring online transactions.Several Apple users have taken to…

Privacy-focused messaging platform Telegram emerged as the fifth most popular app with over 100 million downloads on Google Play Store and Apple App Store in the March quarter, analytics firm Sensor Tower said in a report.  The increase in downloads of the Telegram app can be attributed to the growing dissatisfaction of users with Meta apps. The Sensor report said the number of app installs globally on App Store and Play Store reached 37 billion and despite the bans in key markets…

Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework, which was claimed to enhance user privacy by limiting data collection, has been found to have some weaknesses that could allow app developers to continue tracking users. An independent study has pointed out major loopholes in the framework, which Apple introduced late last year. The study also details how Privacy Nutrition Labels in the Apple App Store, which were introduced by the Cupertino company last year, might not be accurate for all apps and could be misleading in…