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After months of back and forth, the Apple vs. Epic battle over how an app store should work has reached an actual courtroom. Shenanigans on day one included Epic CEO Tim Sweeney identifying — under oath — the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch, but so far the most interesting parts are what we've learned about how the video-game industry works.
Between filings and testimony, we've heard information about how Sony charges developers of cross-play games if PlayStation players spend money on other platforms, about the nearly $12 million Epic spent to secure games for "free" giveaways and about the $146 million advance that locked in Borderlands 3 as an exclusive for the Epic Game Store on PC. Not enough has happened for us to have an idea of who will win, but if all you want is gossip and a unique perspective behind the scenes of industry dealings, then dive into the various filings right here and stay tuned — we're just getting started.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo told investors that Apple plans to launch an 8-inch foldable iPhone by 2023. Kuo already noted the possibility of a folding iPhone in March, but his latest report has more detail on suppliers, suggesting a QHD+ flexible OLED will come from Samsung Display. The report is highly speculative, so don't start saving up for an iPhone Fold or whatever just yet. However, other details give it some extra credibility. And if you wanted more options, Kuo expects Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi and Honor to launch new foldable models in late 2021 or early 2022.Continue reading.
Verizon has agreed a deal to sell its Verizon Media unit — including Engadget — to the investment firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion. Through the deal, Verizon Media, which was once called Oath, which was once called AOL, will be renamed once again, as... Yahoo.
It'll include not only media sites and brands like ourselves but also big Yahoo properties like Mail, Finance and Sport, with Verizon Media's ad tech assets also included. The deal is expected to conclude in the second half of 2021. Continue reading.
The Wild One Max is an 8/10th scale replica of the 1985 toy model built by The Little Car Company in partnership with its original manufacturer, Tamiya. The buggy measures about 138 inches long and 71 inches wide, which is roughly as long as a Fiat 500 and as wide as a Volkswagen Golf. It features a polycarbonate bathtub chassis and metal roll cage, as well as oil-filled shocks and a trailing-arm rear suspension.
It will have a top speed of 30MPH, with a modular battery pack that lasts about 25 miles in range and can be recharged by regenerative braking. The Little Car Company is also promising three packs to make the car road legal in the US and Europe. These will include brake lights, turn signals, reflectors and rear-view mirrors. The base unit will cost about $8,250, excluding tax, and is available for pre-order now. Continue reading.
Sony is partnering with Discord with the aim of "bringing the Discord and PlayStation experiences closer together." How that will look, however, is anyone's guess. The wording references the PlayStation Network, which might mean it could integrate with any device with access to your profile, including phones and PCs. Continue reading.
The decision will come down on Wednesday, May 5th.
After a delay, partially to review the more than 9,000 public comments submitted to this case, the Oversight Board has announced it'll release its decision on Trump's ban this Wednesday, May 5th, at 9 AM ET. It's taken some time, but this should be the final word on Trump's future on the platform — both Facebook and the Oversight Board have made it clear the board's decisions are final, and Facebook is unable to overturn them. Continue reading.
Graduation season is here, and it was a peculiar last year of college for most. That means it's worth some extra celebration, right? Even if that doesn't quite extend to a new MacBook Air, we collected a selection of devices and services that might make the new world of adulting a little easier. My favorite item in this year's guide? Fellow's Stagg electric pour over kettle, pictured above. Continue reading.
Apple's AirTag item trackers are reasonably priced, petite and already rather useful. (I've got one attached to my keys and slid one into my wallet). They do, however, demand some sort of extra peripheral to keep them attached to things. Yes, there are official (and cheaper, unofficial) keychains and things, but the lack of a keyring hole is a frustration. So can I just do-it-myself, and drill a hole?
According to a recent iFixit teardown, yes. It laid out how you can drill a hole in an AirTag — just don't forget to remove the battery first. Naturally, that also erases the water resistance of an untampered with AirTag. Precision is crucial, too, otherwise you could easily mangle the finely packed electronics inside.
You know what's cool right now? Designing your very own chips. Apple does it, as does Tesla. Now VW wants in. The automaker will reportedly design its own high-performance chips for autonomous vehicles and while it wouldn't build the chips itself, it does want to own the patents. VW has plenty of time to figure out chip architecture: the company doesn't expect to sell self-driving cars until 2025, if not later. Continue reading.
Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak quietly left the company "a few weeks ago." He didn't say why he left the brain-machine interface firm, but said he was still a "huge cheerleader" for his former employer's work. This doesn't necessarily mean the company is in trouble, but Hodak's exit could complicate attempts to translate Neuralink's work to practical products — and we're yet to see a product appear, even if a monkey can now play pong with its mind. Continue reading.
The longstanding rumors of an Apple Watch with blood-sugar monitoring won't go away. The latest nod towards it actually coming to fruition? Reports that UK health tech firm Rockley Photonics recently confirmed in an SEC filing that Apple has been its largest customer for the past two years, and that it has a continuing deal to develop future products. Rockley's focus has been on sensors that track blood glucose, pressure and even alcohol levels. Don't expect anything too soon: Non-invasive blood sugar tracking remains a major challenge.Continue reading.
It has almost double the max output, but only in some cases.
Tesla is teasing an upgraded Powerwall aptly called Powerwall+. In a post on Reddit spotted by Electrek, a user posted a spec sheet for the battery, along with photos of what it would look like when installed. The upgraded version's battery capacity is still 13.5kWh, but its max power output is now 9.6kW, up from 5kW continuous and 7kW peak output. That boost in power is only possible when you're in off-grid mode, though. Continue reading.
Epic witness claims Apple's App Store profit reaches 78 percent
Apple disagrees.
Epic Games is using its lawsuit against Apple to accuse the iPhone maker of being particularly greedy. Expert witness Eric Barns testified that Apple supposedly had an App Store operating margin of 77.8 percent in 2019, itself a hike from 74.9 percent in 2018. He also rejected claims from Apple's witness that you couldn't practically calculate profit. Apple unsurprisingly disagreed and says the margin calculations are wrong, according to comments received by The Verge. It plans to fight the allegations at trial. Continue reading.
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Remember game demos? While there are many free-to-play titles these days, it seems like most high-profile games don't give players a way to try them out without paying the full price up front. That's not the case for Resident Evil Village, although an odd time-locked system has made it frustrating for fans to dive into the game before it's released next week.
On Friday, NASA announced it plans to transition the rotorcraft to an operational role once it completes its remaining test flights. NASA says those flights will involve more precise maneuvering, greater use of its photographic capabilities and, most of all, more significant risks. That's a substantial change for a craft that was initially only supposed to show whether flying through the atmosphere of Mars was even possible. Continue reading.
Microsoft has long employed a revenue-sharing model of 70 percent for creators and 30 percent for Xbox, but starting August 1st, that's shifting to 88 percent for developers and 12 percent for Xbox, at least when it comes to PC releases. Xbox console developers won't see a change to the existing revenue-sharing model.
The reason those numbers stick out, is that while Microsoft didn't mention the words Epic or Apple while speaking to Engadget about the change, the fact is that the old split mirrored Apple's App Store, while the new one is in line with Epic's game store on PCs. Continue reading.
Amazon's latest Echo Dot is down to just $30 and you can still save up to $200 on Samsung's Galaxy S21 smartphones. Fitbit's Mother's Day sale is in full swing, bringing record-low prices to many of its wearables, and May the 4th sales began early this year with discounted Star Wars Instant Pots.
Here are all the best deals from the week that you can still snag today, and remember to follow @EngadgetDeals on Twitter for more updates. Continue reading.
On this episode of the Engadget Podcast, Cherlynn and Devindra chat about all of Samsung's new laptops from its latest Galaxy Unpacked fiesta, and why they matter (or don't). They also talk about the company sneaking in mention of NVIDIA's still unannounced RTX 3050 cards in the Galaxy Book Odyssey.
Here's what Devindra Hardawar has to say about the new PS5 exclusive: "It's at times frustratingly difficult, and its systems are sometimes tough to suss out. But I just can't stop playing it." Continue reading.
