Jacob Kastrenakes

“Apple’s artificial constraints are stifling and we know our users deserve better,” Dustee Jenkins, Spotify’s public affairs officer, wrote in a blog post today.

Jenkins sounds cautiously optimistic about the EU’s Digital Markets Act. But until similar rules are enacted elsewhere, she writes:

Apple denies consumers’ ability to choose for themselves, forcing them to pay more for apps, limiting their user experience and preventing them from hearing about cheaper options. 

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Semafor has a story saying that could be the case.

Shares of New York Times stories on X have plummeted since mid-July, while competing outlets haven’t seen the same trajectory.

It’s not confirmed that the dip is X’s doing, but it wouldn’t be out of line: the company throttled links to the Times and a few other websites in August.

The New Yorker stepped inside a VR school, where students wear headsets for two to three hours a day.

Here’s how a virtual field trip to a mountain went for some sixth graders:

One [student] suggested that we should all be quiet to prevent an avalanche, and then started screaming to demonstrate what not to do; a teacher quickly muted him. As the exercise got under way, the kids grew increasingly frustrated. “My teleport’s broken!” one of them shouted. Another couldn’t find the next chair in the line up the mountain. ...the whole group kept falling and getting reset to the beginning of the activity.