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The Spotify vs Apple fight just heated up with the former seeing a big win against the latter in the EU.
The European Commission charges that Apple abuses its dominant position with the App Store as it pertains to music streaming apps.
Apple, of course, disputes the EC’s finding.
If you fire up the Spotify app on your iPhone and try to upgrade to a premium subscription, you’ll be stopped short. The app will simply say, “You can’t upgrade to Premium in the app. We know, it’s not ideal.”
The reason this isn’t possible is that Spotify has one of two choices: present that alert or allow people to subscribe to Spotify within the app but forfeit 15% of their payments. Obviously, Spotify chose the first option. However, this conundrum is what lies at the heart of the Spotify vs Apple fight happening right now.
Strong Galaxy S21 sales drive Samsung to highest mobile profit in years
Samsung’s mobile division achieved its highest quarterly profit figure since 2014.
The Galaxy S21 series buoyed the company’s mobile sales performance.
Its Galaxy A series, tablets, and wearables also contributed to a strong quarter.
Judging by the data from several research firms, it seems that almost every tech company is enjoying a better start to 2021 than 2020. But some firms, like Samsung, are doing better than they’ve done even before the pandemic.
Samsung’s mobile phone business recorded a profit of 4.4 trillion won (~$3.9 billion) in Q1 2021 the highest figure in seven years, per
Poll: Should Android implement an Apple-like App Tracking Transparency feature?
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Apple just released iOS 14.5 with a much-debated privacy feature App Tracking Transparency. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, the feature gives iPhone users much more control over how apps track them across the web and apps from other companies.
Each app that requests tracking data will show up under a dedicated tracking menu. This will give iPhone users a choice to toggle on or off tracking permissions for individual apps. If users opt out of app tracking, Apple will revoke the app’s access to its Identifier For Advertisers (IDFA). This will restrict the app from sharing data about user activity with third parties for ad-targeting purposes.
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Smartphone battery sizes have only gone up in the past few years thanks to displays, processors, and features that require more power. We now have devices with massive battery capacities ranging all the way up to a whopping 10,000mAh. Of course phones like those are still a rare exception, but it’s not hard to find devices with near 5,000mAh or above battery sizes. So we thought of conducting a poll on our website, asking our readers to tell us just how big of a battery their current phone has. Here are the results of that poll.