… CEO Tim Cook reportedly called the governor of Texas in an unsuccessful bid to stop him from signing an app store-level age verification rule and visited Capitol Hill to lobby against similar legislation the company has warned could negatively impact user privacy. …
… Putting device makers on the spot Increasingly, law- and policy-makers have settled on a seemingly elegant solution to age-gating: just make app stores do it. Under these proposals, app store owners would be obligated to verify the age of users before they can download or purchase apps. …
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… The store URL has disappeared recently, but Xbox chief Asha Sharma says “the idea of an Xbox mobile store is not dead.” The launch of the store has been complicated by strict app store rules that Microsoft was hoping would be defeated by regulators or courts by now. …
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… Under state law, operating systems and app stores must collect users’ ages during device setup starting January 1st, 2027. Open-source developers and users were left wondering how the law would be applied to them, or if it even could be. …
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… DirecTV now supports mixed reality with its new app for the Quest 2, 3, 3S, and even Pro headsets. There’s live TV for subscribers, plus on-demand and ad-supported content anyone can watch, available in the app store or through the Horizon TV hub Meta launched last year. …