For more than a decade, two companies have controlled nearly everything about how Americans use their smartphones. Apple and ...

Yesterday, Google and Epic finally reached an agreement to settle their years-long legal dispute. If approved by the judge overseeing the case, the settlement would resolve the lawsuit Epic filed in ...

Starting on October 22nd Android users in the US might be able to download third-party app stores from the Google Play Store, or find apps in the store that direct users to third-party billing systems ...

Epic Games Store will soon charge through Apple’s efforts to mitigate the downloading of apps from third-party marketplaces to iOS and iPadOS — namely, Apple’s Core Technology Fee. Epic will add 19 ...

Apple has blocked a torrenting app that is on a rival to its own App Store, meaning that the company can still dictate what apps are being sold. Despite all of the noise about rival app stores being ...

Android is, for the most part, an open platform. You can use the Google Play Store to install apps and games, or you can go off the reservation and install APKs on ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Amazon announced this week that it's shutting down its Android app store. The Amazon Appstore has been available on Android ...

Earlier today, third-party app store AltStore PAL, announced that a porn app called Hot Tub was now available to iOS users in the European Union. The marketplace, which enables people in the EU to ...

To make sure your Fire TV Stick 4K Select is updated to the latest firmware (OS 1.1), head to Settings > My Fire TV > Check ...

Microsoft says it wants to make app updates less painful on Windows 11, including the apps published outside the Store.

Two human rights organizations want the European Union to force Apple to remove all barriers to making third-party app stores — but it's an unnecessary demand that ignores that the iPhone remains the ...