While Apple previously said you’d be able to stream to hotel TVs using AirPlay later this year, an update on Apple’s iOS 17 page says the capability is coming in 2024. The company has similarly confirmed suspicions that Apple Music’s new collaborative playlist feature won’t be coming until next year.
Paul Mayne — the founder of the Day One journaling app some claim Apple “sherlocked” — is quoted in the announcement for the iOS 17.2 launch of Apple’s Journal app:
The Journal app is an exciting development for us because it introduces the benefits of digital journaling to a wider audience and ushers in a new chapter for the practice. We have integrated the Journaling Suggestions API into the Day One app to give our users an even richer experience that puts privacy at the forefront, and we can’t wait for them to try it.
Senator Warren, who often calls out anticompetitive big tech behavior, weighed in today on Apple’s blockage of Beeper’s Android iMessage workaround.
She’s right that SMS is less secure than Apple’s encrypted iMessage platform. Things could improve with RCS on iPhones, if Apple works out encryption for it.
After Apple seemingly blocked its iMessage for Android solution, the company posted that Beeper Cloud is “now fully working with iMessage.”
But that’s not its famed “breakthrough” Beeper Mini approach that runs directly on Android phones and sends messages straight to Apple’s servers — that’s still broken. Beeper co-founder Eric Migicovsky told The Verge in an email that Beeper Cloud uses Pypush and doesn’t use Mac servers owned by the company.
Update December 9th, 2023, 1:55PM ET: Updated with input from Beeper co-founder Eric Migicovsky.
Code was spotted in Spotify’s iOS app suggesting the service might re-enable in-app payments, but the company says they’re not coming back.
“We have no plans to switch IAP [in-app payments] on at the moment,” Spotify’s global head of corporate and policy communications, Farshad Shadloo, tells The Verge.
Spotify removed the feature in 2016 to avoid Apple’s up to 30 percent commission on digital in-app purchases, and earlier this year migrated old subscribers off the payment method.
Apple announced collaborative playlists for Apple Music at WWDC, and while it appeared in some iOS 17.2 betas, it’s not present in Tuesday’s iOS 17.2 release candidate, 9to5Mac reports. Barring an unexpected surprise, you shouldn’t expect to see collaborative playlists in the final release.
Apple’s iOS 17 website still says the feature is coming “later this year,” but at this rate, I doubt that’s going to happen.
