Japan could soon require Third-Party App Stores for both Apple and Google devices. Japan could soon force both Apple and Google, as well as other similar companies, to allow third-party application stores on its devices, as per 9to5mac, citing Nikkei Asia as its source.
Tech analyst Mark Gurman suggests that Apple may develop its own search engine, highlighting the company's ongoing efforts to reduce its reliance on Google and emphasizing that this transition could be closer than anticipated.
Microsoft reportedly explored selling Bing to Apple in discussions held around 2020, with Apple executives expressing skepticism about Bing's ability to compete with Google.
Google's map usage on iPhones has significantly declined since Apple switched to its own mapping service, recovering just 40% of its former mobile traffic, as revealed during the ongoing antitrust trial against Google.
Top Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) executives appear to have unwittingly fallen prey to a cleverly disguised fake Tim Cook account on Meta Platforms Inc.’s (NASDAQ:META)&nb