Top Stories: Epic Games Victory Over Apple, iPhone 17 Rumors, and More

There's a large shakeup for the App Store successful the U.S. this week, with Epic Games winning a large triumph that is forcing Apple to marque contiguous changes successful however it works with developers seeking to connection alternate methods for purchasing in-app contented and subscriptions.


This week besides saw caller rumors astir the iPhone 17 lineup, portion Dan and Hartley talked done each of the existent Apple Watch rumors connected this week's occurrence of The MacRumors Show, truthful work connected beneath for each the details connected these stories and more!

Epic Games Wins Major Victory arsenic Apple is Ordered to Comply With App Store Anti-Steering Injunction

In a crisp rebuke, Judge Yvonne Gongalez Rogers ruled this week that Apple has been successful "willful violation" of her 2021 ruling successful the tribunal conflict betwixt Apple and Epic Games, with Apple continuing to prosecute successful anti-competitive behaviour by limiting however developers tin nexus to alternate to Apple's in-app purchasing strategy and charging important fees adjacent connected purchases made extracurricular of Apple's ecosystem.


Apple is going to appeal, but successful the meantime it indispensable instantly cease charging commissions oregon fees connected purchases made extracurricular of apps and whitethorn not restrict developers' abilities to beforehand alternatives to users.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says the institution intends to bring Fortnite backmost to the U.S. App Store adjacent week, and has offered a "peace proposal" that would spot Epic driblet further litigation connected the contented if Apple extends the changes required by the ruling worldwide. Epic is besides going to motorboat Epic Games Store Webshops that volition let different developers to deploy integer storefronts extracurricular of the Apple's App Store.

iPhone 17 Pro's Scratch Resistant Anti-Reflective Display Coating Canceled

While Apple was reportedly aiming to bring an anti-reflective show coating to the iPhone 17 Pro models this year, a reliable root present tells MacRumors that the program has been canceled for present arsenic Apple ran into difficulties scaling up the process for the millions of devices it volition request to produce.


Apple has brought anti-reflective nano-texture show options to respective caller products similar the MacBook Pro and iPad Pro, but truthful acold the iPhone has been constricted to a fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating that inactive leaves the solid fronts of the devices susceptible to glare.

All iPhone 17 Models Again Rumored to Feature 12GB of RAM

We're expecting astatine slightest immoderate iPhone 17 models to spot an summation successful RAM to 12GB from the existent 8GB, and a new rumor claims that the summation volition widen to each 4 models successful the lineup.


Apple had primitively been thought to lone see the higher RAM magnitude successful the iPhone 17 Pro Max, though expert Ming-Chi Kuo indicated past week that it volition widen to not lone the iPhone 17 Pro and the "iPhone 17 Air," but perchance adjacent the basal iPhone 17 if proviso concatenation issues tin beryllium overcome. This week's rumor from Digital Chat Station connected Weibo claims this volition so beryllium possible.

Google CEO Suggests iOS 19 Will Feature Built-In Gemini Integration

While ChatGPT is presently the lone third-party AI work integrated into Apple Intelligence connected iPhones, Apple has reportedly been unfastened to adding different services, with Google Gemini regarded arsenic the astir apt aboriginal addition.


As portion of an ongoing antitrust proceedings against Google, its CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that helium has held discussions with Apple CEO Tim Cook astir Gemini integration and helium hopes a woody volition beryllium reached by the mediate of this year. That timing would acceptable the signifier for the inclusion of Gemini successful iOS 19, acceptable to beryllium introduced astatine WWDC adjacent period up of a nationalist motorboat successful September.

The MacRumors Show: Apple Watch Series 11, Ultra 3, and SE 3 Rumors

On the latest occurrence of The MacRumors Show, Dan and Hartley sermon what to expect from the 2025 Apple Watch lineup erstwhile caller models motorboat successful the fall, with updates for the modular Apple Watch, high-end Apple Watch Ultra, and low-end Apple Watch SE each expected.


They besides look astatine the latest rumors astir iPadOS 19, wherever a macOS-style paper barroom is expected to look on-screen erstwhile the iPad is connected to a Magic Keyboard. The iPhone could besides beryllium getting a Stage Manager-like diagnostic erstwhile connected to an outer display.

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