Mobile apps wanted to supplement desktop apps, now they might supplant them
Tweet With macOS Mojave, all major desktop operating systems now support mobile apps in some way or another. Mobile apps, long seen as toy apps, might just be the panacea desktop app development needs. Read more… Neowin
Read more...Apple wanted to kick Uber off the App Store for tagging users, Uber says it didn’t do it
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Tweet In a meeting two years ago, Uber was allegedly threatened with removal from the App Store, due to “fingerprinting”, which allowed the service to track users’ whereabouts even with the app uninstalled. Read more… Neowin
Read more...Nintendo wanted Switch to run Android with help from Cyanogen, who “told them to stick it”
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Tweet In 2015, Nintendo denied that its next-gen console would run Android – but Cyanogen’s Kirt McMaster said Nintendo asked his company to build a custom version of the OS, and he “told them to stick it”. Read more… Neowin
Read more...Nvidia brings GeForce Now to PC and Mac, but it’s not the game streaming service you wanted
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Tweet Nvidia has announced that starting later this year its GeForce Now would be available on desktop computers. Unfortunately, this isn’t the same game streaming service found on Shield devices. Read more… Neowin
Read more...Judge lays down Apple’s punishment in ebooks case. It’s largely in line with what the feds wanted
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Tweet After weeks of back-and-forth between the Department of Justice and Apple, the federal judge overseeing the ebooks antitrust case issued an injunction against Apple in a filing released Friday. The Department of Justice will be happy, because the final injunction contains a lot of what it had asked for. In July, Judge Denise Cote found Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to set ebook prices at the launch of…
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