Follow Up

Apple tweaks Core Technology Fee terms for free apps and small developers

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=d0z8d8rx

https://sixcolors.com/link/2024/05/apple-tweaks-core-technology-fee-terms-for-free-apps-and-small-developers/

Apple will bring sideloading and other EU-mandated changes to iPadOS this fall

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/05/apple-must-open-ipados-to-sideloading-within-6-months-eu-says/

Apple Maps cycling routes come to bicycle-friendly Netherlands

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/03/apple-maps-cycling-routes-come-to-bicycle-friendly-netherlands/

Turns out the Rabbit R1 was just an Android app all along

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145838/rabbit-r1-android-app-pixel-6a

News

Apple Earnings

2024 Q2 Apple Results: $90.8 billion revenue, Services record

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/2024-q1-apple-results-90-8-billion-revenue-services-record/

Apple reports slumping iPhone sales as global demand weakens

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/02/apple-earnings-iphone-sales-decrease?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

AI in next gen Apple OS:

More details emerge about Apple’s plans for AI in iOS 18

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/3/24148282/apple-ai-iphone-ios-18-plans-ajax

iOS 18 rumored to include Humane Ai Pin-style iMessage summary feature using AI

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/03/ios-18-summarize-text-messages-ai/

Passkey support comes to Word, Excel, and more for all consumer Microsoft accounts

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/02/passkey-support-comes-to-word-excel-and-more-for-all-consumer-microsoft-accounts/

Tesla staff say firm's entire Supercharger team fired

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68935522

Mercedes-Benz won’t let Apple CarPlay take over all its screens

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/29/24144356/mercedes-benz-ceo-apple-carplay-next-gen-decoder

Media

Is Apple TV+ having a quality crisis?

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/04/is-apple-tv-having-a-quality-crisis/

Games

Bethesda and MS

https://www.theverge.com/24151047/xbox-shuts-down-arkane-austin-tango-gameworks-microsoft

Nintendo Direct

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/gaming/nintendo-direct-confirmed-for-june-to-focus-on-switch-games-only/ar-BB1lXbO2

Apple Event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1J38FlDKxo

Studio Neat

https://www.studioneat.com/products/canopy

App of the Week

FS-UAE

https://fs-uae.net/

Thing of the Week

Steam Deck / EA / Command and Conquer