Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Tuesday, February 10th, 2026.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

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Leading off today, Apple has responded to complaints that it abuses its dominant position in the iPhone app market by making

four positions to third-party developers about fairer treatment in the United Kingdom.

Apple has long been accused by competition regulators around the world of abusing its market

dominance in two ways. First, by effectively holding a monopoly on the sale of iPhone apps, since these

could only be purchased in the company's own app store. And second, by giving preferential

treatment to its own apps over competing alternatives. The promises announced today in the

UK by both Apple and Google address the second of these two issues, Apple giving preferential

treatment to its own apps. The promises include making sure Apple and Google review apps to be

distributed on their app stores in a fair and objective way and do not discriminate against

apps which compete with their own or give preferential treatment to their own apps.

Making sure Apple and Google rank apps in their app stores in a fair, objective, and transparent way,

and do not discriminate against apps which compete with their own or give preferential treatment to their own.

Making sure Apple and Google safeguard the app data they gather from developers in the course of App Review

and do not use this data unfairly. And finally, enabling developers to more easily request interoperable

access to features and functionality within iOS, giving businesses more certainty over how they

can deliver innovative products and services to UK customers.

In a statement today, Apple said, quote,

the commitments announced today allow Apple to continue advancing important privacy and security innovations for users and great opportunities for developers, end quote.

You'll notice that these promises by Apple in the UK don't come anywhere close to what Apple

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