Apple's App Store has basically no competition, which is bad for consumers both in terms of innovation and pricing. On Android, the Epic Games Store offers a variety of games not found on Google Play ...

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 ...

Third-Party Apps Dangerous: They are often available on official app stores like Google Play Store or Apple App Store and can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Epic Games will never just take the win — it's now appealing to the court of public opinion that it takes one more actual step to install a third-party App Store as it does to install an app from the ...

EU antitrust legislation forced Apple to allow third-party app stores for iPhone within the bloc, with MacPaw’s Setapp Mobile one of the first to take advantage of this. The company has now announced ...

Following the shutdown of an alternative app store, Apple has accused the European Commission (EC) of using “political delay tactics” as an excuse to probe and fine the company, Bloomberg reported.

Apple has long maintained strict control over the App Store, ensuring that only applications meeting its security, privacy and content guidelines can be distributed to iPhone users. However, with the ...

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 ...