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There’ll be a new high-end iPhone, internally dubbed D33, with a display that measures about 6.5-inch diagonally, according to the people familiar with the matter. That would make it the largest iPhone by far and one of the biggest mainstream phones on the market. It will continue to have a glass back with stainless steel edges and dual cameras on the back. The big difference on the software side will be the ability to view content side-by-side in apps like Mail and Calendar. It will be Apple’s second phone with a crisper organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, screen. […]

Apple also plans an upgrade to the current iPhone X with a 5.8-inch OLED screen, which is internally dubbed D32, the people said. The main changes to the new OLED iPhones will be to processing speed and the camera, according to the people familiar with the devices. […]

Perhaps the most significant phone will be a new, cheaper device destined to replace the iPhone 8.

Das Sommerloch für Techniknachrichten hat auch in diesem Jahr gefehlt; eigentlich war immer irgendwas los. Ich genoß in den letzten Wochen trotzdem einige freie Abende mit der Nintendo Switch und ich kann mich wirklich an keine Konsole aus den letzten Jahren erinnern, die mir über Monate hinweg so viel Freude bereitet hat.

Ich liebe Games. Ich liebe Games solange ich bereits denken kann. Und obwohl sich meine Beziehung zu Videospielen stark gewandelt hat, verehre ich dieses Medium. Und trotzdem fällt es mir schwer eine Konsole aus dem letzten Jahrzehnt zu benennen, die mich so rundherum in ihren Bann zog wie die Switch. Alleine Okami HD, Rime, Not a Hero, The Sexy Brutale, Little Nightmares, Hollow Knight, Enter the Gungeon, Dead Cells, Axiom Verge, Mario Tennis Aces, Kirby Star Allies, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Lumines Remastered, Octopath Traveler und natürlich Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Odyssey und The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild rechtfertigen den Kauf von Nintendos Handheld nach einer Lebenszeit von nur eineinhalb Jahren. weiterlesen

Netflix experimentiert in 33 Ländern mit einem neuen Anmeldeprozess um Apples Provision an ihrem Monatsbeitrag einzusparen. Neue Abos für den Video-Streaming-Dienst können dabei nur über die Webseite abgeschlossen werden – eine Neuanmeldung für Netflix – direkt über die Netflix-App – ist in diesem Testlauf unter Umständen gestrichen.

Spotify hatte sich mit Apple deshalb schon mehrfach in den Haaren. Auch Amazon bietet den Kauf von neuen Kindle-Büchern nur über den Webbrowser an um Apples 30-Prozent-Provision selbst einzubehalten. Apples finanzielle Beteiligung an allen App-Store-Abos sinkt nach 12 Monaten auf 15-Prozent.

TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Netflix, in its own words, is “testing the iTunes payment method” in 33 countries. More specifically, Netflix is testing how to bypass iTunes. Until September 30, new or lapsed subscribers in selected markets across Europe, Latin America and Asia will be unable pay using iTunes.

Earlier this month, Apple officials informed Facebook that the app violated new rules outlined in June designed to limit data collection by app developers, the person familiar with the situation said. Apple informed Facebook that Onavo also violated a part of its developer agreement that prevents apps from using data in ways that go beyond what is directly relevant to the app or to provide advertising, the person added.

The two sides discussed the issue in meetings last week, at least one of which took place at Apple’s headquarters. On Thursday, Apple officials suggested that Facebook voluntarily take down the Onavo app and Facebook agreed, said the person, who described the

The app won’t vanish from the phones of users who have already downloaded the app, but Facebook will no longer be able to push updates of the app. Onavo will still be available on Android devices, the person said.

Deepa Seetharaman | WSJ

Onavo ist und bleibt Schnüffelsoftware. Es ist bedauerlich, dass es knapp vier Jahre gedauert hat, bis Apple die Facebook-App rauswarf Facebook ein Rückzug nahegelegt wurde. weiterlesen

• A dormant, stationary Android phone (with the Chrome browser active in the background) communicated location information to Google 340 times during a 24-hour period, or at an average of 14 data communications per hour. In fact, location information constituted 35 percent of all the data samples sent to Google.
• For comparison’s sake, a similar experiment found that on an iOS device with Safari but not Chrome, Google could not collect any appreciable data unless a user was interacting with the device. Moreover, an idle Android phone running the Chrome browser sends back to Google nearly fifty times as many data requests per hour as an idle iOS phone running Safari.
• An idle Android device communicates with Google nearly 10 times more frequently as an Apple device communicates with Apple servers. These results highlighted the fact that Android and Chrome platforms are critical vehicles for Google’s data collection. Again, these experiments were done on stationary phones with no user interactions.