The Vergecast

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple's upgraded MacBook Air, the EU's Digital Markets Act deadline for tech’s biggest “gatekeepers”, and a bunch of tech news from this week.


Further reading:

  • Apple announces upgraded MacBook Air laptops with M3 chips
  • The MacBook Air’s wedge is truly gone — and I miss it already
  • Apple may not do a spring event this year
  • How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates
  • How every tech ‘gatekeeper’ is responding to the DMA 
  • iOS 17.4 is here and ready for a whole new Europe 
  • Apple hit with a nearly $2 billion fine following Spotify complaint 
  • Spotify and Epic criticize Apple’s iOS changes as ‘a mockery of the DMA’
  • Spotify will show pricing options outside its iOS app in the EU — if Apple lets it
  • Apple kills Epic’s iOS game store plans over App Store criticism
  • Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone
  • Apple unbanned Epic so it can make an iOS games store in the EU
  • Alternative iOS app stores won’t work (for long) outside of the EU.
  • Here’s the new iOS default browser nag for iPhone users in Europe.
  • Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU
  • Apple’s decision to drop iPhone web apps comes under scrutiny in the EU
  • Now Apple says it won’t disable iPhone web apps in the EU

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