They’re cutting the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for developers who generate less than $1Million and that’s 95% of us. When? January 1st. My favourite part of this Bloomberg story is Basecamp CTO’s quote from Twitter. “If you’re a developer making $1m, Apple is STILL asking to be paid $150,000, just to process […]

Apple has been using this IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) for ‘ever’. As an app developer we see this each time we publish an app. If you want to integrate ads this is the ID that allows 3rd parties to track your usage. It goes without saying that Apple keeps a close eye on it as […]

Europe just doesn’t like getting lobbied by big tech. Someone leaked Google’s strategy for countering the EU’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton didn’t like it. No kidding. The tactics would be expected but treating Europe as you might treat a weak state without other options, might be a huge miscalculation. Europe and Google […]

The apps are listening, watching and recording you. Don’t let them. Block their access to your phone’s camera and microphone. Most apps — regardless of their intended function — collect personal data and use it for their own benefit. One of the ways that apps get crafty about collecting that data is by accessing your […]

You don’t need to be a privacy fanatic to see the problems with letting a camera-equipped drone fly around your house, feeding video to your phone (and the cloud) as it buzzes from room to room. Amazon is betting you won’t care. You should. It’s a privacy disaster. In case you haven’t heard, earlier this […]

After the European Union slapped a little $5+ billion fine on Google for blocking rivals on Android devices, Google set up an auction for those rivals to bid on placement as a default search engine on their devices. That seems ‘okay’ or at the least profit generating… But recently DuckDuckGo has requested a trilateral meeting […]

There has been so much written about this over the last few days, strangely it’s all the same. It’s self evident that Google has an unfair advantage over the web. Unfair being the key word. From what I can tell in a rush before the election, the DOJ is suing Google for abusing search dominance […]

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