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James E. Malackowski One witness previously claimed that Apple would need to redesign hardware and software to enable third-party app stores. The changes required would likely only be able to affect future iPhones if this was the case. Though, some have contradicted this claim by pointing out the existence of the Apple Enterprise Program, which enables installing apps from Safari. MacRumors spotted the court documents on Tuesday along with interesting snippets of commentary from the witnesses. ...

This Week in Apps: A surprising report on App Tracking, Apple event predictions, Instagram for kids Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage...

Apple has filed a multitude of witness testimony for its upcoming trial with Epic Games. It includes claims from an expert witness that Apple would have to redesign its hardware and software to facilitate alternative App Stores. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney slammed the claims as "baloney". Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has called the claims of an Apple expert witness "baloney" following the Cupertino companys filing of its evidence ahead of its antitrust battle. Apple expert witness filings submitt...

When I read those summaries for the first time, I tweeted about some of the statements I found in them. This is my tweet about the claim that Apple couldnt support alternative app stores without not only software but even hardware changes: Apple expert: "would include a duty to redesign its hardware and software--[...]--to make the iPhone interoperable with alternative app stores" The software part would be very limited for sure, and the hardware part is inconceivable. Will be interesting to h...