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Global Liberalization: Apple Embraces Retro Game Emulators with New App Store Regulations

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Apple updated its App Store rules Friday to allow emulators for retro console games globally with an option for downloading titles. Apple’s update will probably encourage some of those developers to bring their emulators to the App Store. With Apple having to tweak App Store rules because of regulations, these kinds of games would provide another revenue stream for the company. Plus, it updated App Store rules at that time to support in-app purchases for mini-games and AI chatbots. “Apps may offer certain software that is not embedded in the binary, specifically HTML5 mini apps and mini-games, streaming games, chatbots, and plug-ins.

“Collaborative Journals Come to Life with Retro: The Premier Photo-Sharing App for Best Friends”

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It’s a flexible way to share photos with your favorite people and create visual records of whatever matters in your life. Retro’s main feature is a way to share your most important photos of the past week with your favorite people. Retro’s answer to this use-case is journals: A new flexible way to share photos as a group. You can also have a journal with your partner to share important moments you’ve spent together without spamming all your friends on Retro. Building a social consumer app involves many experimentations — and journals are one of those experimentations.

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