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Apple Won’t Allow Cloud Gaming like xCloud and Stadia on iOS Complaints about the Apple App Store are as old as the App Store itself, but that doesn’t make the latest development any more aggravating for gamers. Despite extensive beta testing, it looks like Microsoft will be unable to launch …

More than 2,500 mobile games have been removed from China’s App Store during the first week of July, according to a new report from app store intelligence firm Sensor Tower. The removals were expected due to a planned crackdown on unlicensed games, but this data is the first to demonstrate …

Apple Will Support Thunderbolt on Its Future ARM-Based Macs When Intel announced Thunderbolt 4 yesterday, one of the questions was whether companies like AMD would be able to use the standard. Intel’s slide, copied below, implies that Intel VT-d technology is required to implement TB4, due to the need for …

Apple is Planning to Build Build Its Own GPUs, Too, But Playing Quiet for Now There’s news out that Apple isn’t just going to be getting rid of Intel silicon — it’s supposedly going to be pushing GPUs out of its products as well. That read is based on a …

Ex-Intel Engineer: Skylake QA Problems Drove Apple Away Now that Apple and x86 have made their impending breakup official, attention has turned to when the company made that decision and why. According to an ex-Intel engineer, Apple pulled the trigger as far back as 2015, after it saw how buggy …

Apple Announces A12Z CPU for Mac, Will Transition Away From Intel, x86 After 15 years and approximately 50 failed predictions, Apple has finally announced its own ARM CPU for the Mac and MacBook product lines. The upcoming A12Z will transition Apple away from the x86 CPUs it adopted in 2005 …

A Competitive Apple ARM Core Could Finally Break x86’s Long Computing Monopoly Yesterday, reports surfaced claiming Apple will announce its first homegrown ARM CPU intended for desktop and laptop computing at WWDC in just a few weeks. Short-term, the announcement won’t change much, especially since Apple isn’t expected to launch …

Apple May Announce Move to ARM-Based Laptops at WWDC This Month Apple’s annual WWDC event is happening (virtually) later this month, and the company is expected to announce a major shift in its product roadmap. After years of rumors, Apple will reportedly confirm its plans to switch to custom ARM-based …

Apple has offered feedback to the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) concerning its proposed new rule changes regarding autonomous vehicle testing on state roads. The formal feedback provided by Apple is relatively short and to the point, contained in a letter submitted to the DMV and embedded below, signed …

  There’s a pair of near-perfectly juxtaposed stories about Apple in the news today. First, Apple has released its own environmental progress report for 2017. The news here is generally good, as you’d expect from a self-prepared report, but it highlights Apple’s success in moving to fully renewable energy and …