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The Mac Observer
macobserver.com > news > apple-card-chase-transition-confirmed-vs-reported

Apple Card Is Moving to Chase. Here Is What Apple Confirmed, and What Is Only Reported

9+ hour, 10+ min ago   (384+ words) The Mac Observer The Good Daughter Release Date: Peacock’s Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy Drama Crystal Lake Release Date: What Peacock Has Confirmed About the Friday the 13th Prequel The Traitors: New Blood Release Date and NBC Premiere Schedule Chad Powers…...

The Mac Observer
macobserver.com > news > mac-ipad-trade-in-credit-rose-september-9

Trade In an Old Mac or iPad Now, and the Credit Is Higher Than It Was a Week Ago

7+ hour, 19+ min ago   (342+ words) On September 9, Apple moved its trade-in credit in two directions at once. Every iPhone value fell, some by as much as $120. Almost everything in the Mac and iPad line moved the other way. If an older MacBook, Mac mini, iMac…...

The Mac Observer
macobserver.com > news > eu-app-marketplace-letter-of-credit-requirement

Apple's EU Marketplace Rules: The $1,000,000 Letter of Credit Requirement Explained

11+ hour, 12+ min ago   (236+ words) The rule sits inside the same August 18, 2026 update that replaced the Core Technology Fee with a 5 percent Core Technology Commission. Apple frames both changes as part of a single set of business terms for apps in the EU, agreed with…...

The Mac Observer
macobserver.com > news > app-store-monthly-subscriptions-12-month-commitment

Apple Quietly Enabled Monthly App Store Subscriptions With a 12-Month Commitment

9+ hour, 42+ min ago   (352+ words) The Mac Observer Apple Has Not Set a Commission Rate for App Store Link-Out Purchases in the US Apple Says Developers Have Earned $550 Billion From the App Store Since 2008 Apple’s Other Antitrust Fights: Where the DOJ Case and the UK’s…...

The Mac Observer
macobserver.com > news > apple-american-manufacturing-program-jobs-commitment

Apple's American Manufacturing Program: The Jobs Commitment, by the Numbers

6+ hour, 25+ min ago   (335+ words) Apple’s American Manufacturing Program has grown from a $500 billion pledge to a $600 billion one in a little over a year, and its newest and largest single commitment under that program is built specifically around adding American jobs. Every figure here…...

The Mac Observer
macobserver.com > news > apple-renamed-supplier-responsibility-report

Apple Renamed Its Supplier Report. The 2026 Edition Has Not Appeared

6+ hour, 13+ min ago   (231+ words) Apple’s annual account of its supplier work no longer carries the name it used for over a decade. The document once called the Supplier Responsibility Progress Report is now the “People and Environment in Our Supply Chain Progress Report,” and…...

The Mac Observer
macobserver.com > news > eu-app-store-payment-choice-12-month-lock-in

Apple's New EU App Store Terms Lock In Payment Choices for 12 Months

11+ hour, 12+ min ago   (266+ words) The lock-in arrives alongside a genuine reversal: Apple In-App Purchase and alternative payment options can now run inside the same app in the EU, something Apple’s own terms previously prohibited. A developer gets more combinations to choose from, and then…...

Google News
macobserver.com > news > insuring-airpods-5-applecare-one-single-device-math

Insuring $129 AirPods 5: Apple Prices Coverage for Three Devices at Once, and None for AirPods Alone

11+ hour, 12+ min ago   (245+ words) Run that rate for a year and the arithmetic gets uncomfortable: twelve months of AppleCare One at $19.99 comes to $239.88, which is our own multiplication of Apple’s published monthly rate, and it is more than the AirPods themselves cost if they…...

The Mac Observer
macobserver.com > news > apple-doj-antitrust-case-uk-cma-status

Apple's Other Antitrust Fights: Where the DOJ Case and the UK's CMA Stand Now

10+ hour, 21+ min ago   (420+ words) Apple’s Other Antitrust Fights: Where the DOJ Case and the UK’s CMA Stand Now The Mac Observer The Supreme Court Denied Apple’s Stay Request in the Epic Case This August Apple’s App Store Link-Out Injunction Is Live, and Here Is…...

The Mac Observer
macobserver.com > news > eu-app-store-link-out-7-day-attribution-window

Apple's EU Link-Out Rule: Only Sales Within 7 Days of a Tap Face a Commission

11+ hour, 12+ min ago   (347+ words) Under Apple’s new EU business terms, effective Thursday, October 1, 2026, a purchase made after a customer taps a link out of an app counts toward Apple’s Store Services Commission only if it happens within 7 days of that tap. Apple’s developer support…...