The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition Hello and goodbye to the MacBook Air
Mar 7, 2024
01:33:57
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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