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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple's upgraded MacBook Air, the EU's Digital Markets Act deadline for tech’s biggest “gatekeepers”, and a bunch of tech news from this week.
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Apple announces upgraded MacBook Air laptops with M3 chips
The MacBook Air’s wedge is truly gone — and I miss it already
Apple may not do a spring event this year
How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates
How every tech ‘gatekeeper’ is responding to the DMA
iOS 17.4 is here and ready for a whole new Europe
Apple hit with a nearly $2 billion fine following Spotify complaint
Spotify and Epic criticize Apple’s iOS changes as ‘a mockery of the DMA’
Spotify will show pricing options outside its iOS app in the EU — if Apple lets it
Apple kills Epic’s iOS game store plans over App Store criticism
Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone
Apple unbanned Epic so it can make an iOS games store in the EU
Alternative iOS app stores won’t work (for long) outside of the EU.
Here’s the new iOS default browser nag for iPhone users in Europe.
Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU
Apple’s decision to drop iPhone web apps comes under scrutiny in the EU
Now Apple says it won’t disable iPhone web apps in the EU
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