App Store purchases can now cost up to £12,000, or just 29p

Apple has announced a massive revamp of App Store pricing with 700 new price points ranging up to £10,000. The new pricing tools will allow developers much more flexibility when setting the prices for apps, in-app purchases (IAPs) and subscriptions, which could provide more value for consumers where prices would otherwise be rounded-up. The lowest…

New Winamp update adds features, fixes, and (sigh) support for “music NFTs”

Enlarge (credit: Winamp/Andrew Cunningham) If you’d asked me in January to make some predictions about what 2022 would bring, I don’t think “multiple significant updates to the Winamp player” would have been on the list. But the release candidate for version 5.9.1 of the software builds on the groundwork laid by August’s 5.9 update to…

Meta needs explicit user consent to run personalized ads, EU watchdog rules

Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket) Meta has already been coping with a slump in ad revenue this year, and now a decision from European Union privacy regulators threatens to reduce Meta’s ad revenue even more next year. According to Reuters, a person familiar with the matter said that the European Data Protection…