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Google Shopping for Android, iOS shutting down in favor of the web

A new Google Shopping experience that featured a personalized homepage launched in 2019. On Android, Google rebranded the existing Express app to Shopping, but it’s now shutting down the mobile experience in favor of just the web. Update: The company confirmed to us today that it’s ending support for the Google Shopping apps on Android and iOS. The clients will continue to work through June.
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Apple: ‘Moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us’

Android users have long wanted an iMessage app to use the popular messaging service on non-Apple devices. Epic’s lawsuit against Apple has now revealed and confirmed that lock-in is the reason why iMessage for Android does not exist. Early today, Epic and Apple filed documents ahead of their upcoming trial. As our colleagues at 9to5Mac noted this morning, Epic’s lawyers asked Apple…
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iPhones comprised 6 of the 10 best-selling smartphones in January

iPhone models made up 6 of the 10 best-selling smartphones globally in January, according to a new market intelligence report today. The iPhone 12 mini does, however, find itself farther down the rankings than the iPhone 11 … Counterpoint Research says that a third of sales of the iPhone 12 lineup was in the US. Apple grabbed six places in the global top 10 best-selling smartphone models’…
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OnePlus 9 series drops File Dash in favor of Nearby Share

With the OnePlus 9 series launch, the new additions were core focus points – but it looks like there have been a few sneaky removals, including that of File Dash from the File manager app in favor of Google’s Nearby Share. So a few days ago, disgruntled early buyers of the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro on Reddit complained at what appeared to be the lack of a File Dash option within the default…
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