Podcast Episode Details

Hello and goodbye to the MacBook Air

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple's upgraded MacBook Air, the EU's Digital Markets Act deadline for tech’s biggest “gatekeepers”, and a bunch of tech news from this week.

Further reading:

• Apple announces upgraded MacBook Air laptops with M3 chips
• The MacBook Air’s wedge is truly gone — and I miss it already
• Apple may not do a spring event this year
• How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates
• How every tech ‘gatekeeper’ is responding to the DMA 
• iOS 17.4 is here and ready for a whole new Europe 
• Apple hit with a nearly $2 billion fine following Spotify complaint 
• Spotify and Epic criticize Apple’s iOS changes as ‘a mockery of the DMA’
• Spotify will show pricing options outside its iOS app in the EU — if Apple lets it
• Apple kills Epic’s iOS game store plans over App Store criticism
• Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone
• Apple unbanned Epic so it can make an iOS games store in the EU
• Alternative iOS app stores won’t work (for long) outside of the EU.
• Here’s the new iOS default browser nag for iPhone users in Europe.
• Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU
• Apple’s decision to drop iPhone web apps comes under scrutiny in the EU
• Now Apple says it won’t disable iPhone web apps in the EU
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Published on 1 year, 9 months ago