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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