Seattle-area smart-home device maker Wyze Labs and Amazon-owned Ring, among others, could be set to face new competition in the home security camera market from Apple. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported Tuesday that the tech giant plans to make its…
Lees meerWashington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson wants to help take a bite out of Apple’s dominance in the smartphone market, joining 20 other attorneys general Tuesday in the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit against the iPhone maker.
Lees meerFirst up this week on the GeekWire Podcast: an inside look at developing software for the Apple Vision Pro spatial computing headset. We got a chance this week to talk with a longtime software developer for Apple platforms, Ken Case, co-founder and …
Lees meerThere wasn’t a line stretching around the block the way there might have been for an early iPhone release. But the first day that shoppers could get there hands — and heads — on Apple’s new Vision Pro did attract an enthusiastic crowd to the company…
Lees meerKen Case‘s dad worked for many years at Boeing in industrial engineering for highly complex projects such as the Boeing 747 and Saturn V booster rocket. Case remembers his dad bringing home large Gantt charts — long rolls of paper with timelines and…
Lees meerDespite their longstanding rivalry, Microsoft has made a tradition of developing software for Apple computers, stretching back to the early days of the Macintosh in the 1980s. Turns out the Vision Pro will be no exception. Microsoft announced Wednes…
Lees meerI love the outdoors. Some of my best moments have been spent backpacking in the Pacific Northwest or, more recently, rafting the rivers of Colorado and Utah. So, last fall, when Apple introduced a new iPhone 14 SOS feature that allowed users to send…
Lees meerSome of Microsoft’s biggest missteps over the years have come not from being too late but rather too early, leaving the door open for competitors — especially Apple, it seems — to popularize a product category years later, when the technology and th…
Lees meerApple newly announced headset positions the company as a contender in the evolving field of virtual and augmented reality, and highlights the divergent paths that major players are taking through the current state of VR/AR. While VR/AR has been rela…
Lees meerA new lawsuit alleges that an agreement between Amazon and Apple, ostensibly intended to crack down on counterfeiters, illegally restricted competition and raised prices for iPhones, iPads, and other Apple devices on Amazon’s online marketplace. The…
Lees meerPC users will be able to access pictures from their iPhones via the Windows 11 Photos app through a new integration announced by Microsoft this morning. It’s a significant move to bridge Apple’s popular smartphone and Microsoft’s widely used operati…
Lees meerApple is joining the growing list of tech companies calling workers back to the office, setting April 11 as a deadline for corporate workers to be back in person at least one day per week. According to a memo sent Friday by CEO Tim Cook, and first r…
Lees meerA federal judge ruled Friday that Apple can no longer prohibit individual developers from offering their own independent payment options in the iOS App Store. However, the same judge also stopped short of declaring Apple a monopoly, which foiled one…
Lees meerRep. Pramila Jayapal’s Amazon-busting legislation, the “Ending Platform Monopolies Act” that would potentially force the company’s dismantling, has earned Biden administration support, the 7th District Democrat said in an interview with GeekWire. “T…
Lees meerRep. Adam Schiff, in separate letters to bosses of tech giants Amazon and Facebook, criticized the efforts of both companies to curb the spread COVID-19 and related vaccination information. The pair of letters, dated a day after Sen. Elizabeth Warre…
Lees meerFew lawmakers have gotten Amazon’s attention like the one who hails from the company’s hometown, Rep. Pramila Jayapal. The 7th Congressional District Democrat has made the powerful tech industry a primary focus and in particular what she sees as pot…
Lees meerIn an effort to promote more business and labor competition, President Biden today will issue a sweeping executive order to limit the concentration of money and power in many American businesses, particularly technology and healthcare. The order, to…
Lees meerFederal lawmakers introduced a wave of legislation Friday that collectively seeks to change the way large tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook do business and dominate their respective marketplaces. The five bills would create …
Lees meerMicrosoft revealed in a court appearance this week that it does not, and has never, earned money on the per-unit sales for the Xbox. Each console is sold at a loss, and the profit from the project for Microsoft comes entirely from software sales. Th…
Lees meerKicking off in federal court today, the closely watched battle between the makers of Fortnite and Apple will include an attorney who is well known for her role in one of the seminal antitrust fights in tech history: U.S. v. Microsoft. On the legal t…
Lees meerFor years, Apple Maps has lacked the cycling-specific routing that for a decade has made Google Maps the popular choice among bicyclists. Not anymore. With the recently updated iPhone software, Apple tucked a nice Seattle surprise into Maps, accordi…
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