News Weekly: Massive Apple lawsuit, Pixel market share continues to grow, and more

AC News Weekly(Image credit score: Android Central)News Weekly is our column, the place we spotlight and summarize a number of the week’s high tales so you may compensate for the newest tech information.This is Android Central’s News Weekly, your go-to supply for a concise roundup of the week’s most important tech tales. This is the place we delve into the highest headlines that present the newest developments and improvements contributing to the digital panorama. This week, Apple may use Gemini for its iPhone, Pixel shares proceed to develop within the U.S. regardless of a drop in gross sales, Android 15 brings satellite tv for pc connectivity, Apple will get sued for iPhone monopoly, and why the Samsung Galaxy Z fold does not unfold flatApple desires Gemini(Image credit score: Andrew Myrick / Android Central)Read extra right here.Yes, you heard that proper. Apple and Google may very well be working collectively. According to a current Bloomberg report, Apple is presently in talks with Google because it appears at bringing Gemini’s AI fashions to the iPhone. Some sources say that Gemini’s array could be built-in into Apple’s generative AI options which might be being developed for the iPhone. These new Gemini-backed capabilities will reportedly be accessible on Apple’s iOS 18, which will probably be launched later this 12 months. iPhones may get AI-based picture creation, and the replace may allow options like “writing essays based on simple prompts.” Apple has reportedly been testing its personal Learning Language Model up to now 12 months, similar to its personal AI chatbot known as “Apple GPT.” However, it appears like the corporate is leaning in direction of Google’s ‘extra superior’ AI mannequin.Apple’s CEO Tim Cook stated he’s implementing Apple’s model of AI options onto the iPhone on a “very thoughtful basis.”Get the newest information from Android Central, your trusted companion on the planet of AndroidGoogle Pixel appears to be a U.S. favourite(Image credit score: Android Central)Read extra right here.A brand new report means that Google’s Pixel gross sales dropped by 14%, however its market share has elevated to roughly 5% within the U.S. The figures from the International Data Corporation (IDC) inform us that in 2023, Google Pixel units claimed 4.6% of the U.S. market, a rise from 3.6% in 2022. This implies that Google now has the fourth-largest market share within the nation. Google unlocked handset gross sales are on the rise and account for 9% of whole gross sales. However, to maintain up with Samsung (20%) and Apple (19%), Google has an extended option to go. According to Anthony Scarsella, Research Director at IDC, “Apple and Samsung continue strengthening their hold on the US smartphone market, with the two vendors combining for 74.2 percent of the market. This represents an all-time high market share for the two vendors.”Another Android 15 peek(Image credit score: Harish Jonnalagadda / Android Central)Read extra right here.Google has launched one other sneak peek of Android 15 for builders earlier than the large open beta premiers in April. The newest launch reveals higher methods to talk even when the gadget’s alerts are weak, help for apps on the tiny screens of flippable telephones, and extra.(Image credit score: Google)The most distinguished characteristic that Google gave a peek into is its satellite tv for pc connectivity, which permits customers to remain linked irrespective of the place they’re. On Android 14, Google launched a characteristic that allowed your cellphone to acknowledge a number of languages for audio and change between them routinely; with Android 15, it desires to improvise on this characteristic and provides apps the chance to run this seamlessly.This replace focuses on making certain apps run easily quite than including new options. Google has additionally been engaged on tightening up privateness, safety, and the general person expertise. This developer preview of Android 15 is principally for app makers getting ready for the subsequent massive Android launch, which can most likely drop within the fall. Apple will get sued for unlawful ‘iPhone monopoly'(Image credit score: Future)Read extra right here.The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Apple on Thursday (Mar 21) for monopolizing the smartphone market. Along with 16 different district attorneys, the DOJ is focusing on the tech big for its “anti-competitive practices.” The antitrust lawsuit claims that Apple takes benefit of its dominant ecosystem and monopoly energy to extract extra money from customers, builders, and others. The lawsuit targets Apple’s most-priced possessions, the iPhone and the Apple Watch, in addition to messaging, how the corporate handles cloud streaming video games, and extra.The DOJ says that the corporate has all the time recognized that this sort of dominance has been threatened by different elements, similar to revolutionary merchandise and apps. And as a substitute of responding to those aggressive threats by decreasing the costs of its merchandise for customers, Apple has all the time wriggled its means out by imposing a sequence of “shapeshifting rules and restrictions in its App Store guidelines.”The grievance talks about how Apple has blocked cross-platform messaging, the compatibility of its units with Android telephones, and the restriction of builders from creating apps that will result in developments in know-how, amongst others. They accuse Apple of knowingly bringing about methods to make clients reliant on their merchandise. According to The Verge, Apple responded to the lawsuit, stating that it threatened its identification and the rules that set Apple merchandise aside in fiercely aggressive markets.Some Galaxy Z Folds aren’t unfolding flat(Image credit score: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)Read extra right here.Some Galaxy Z Fold customers have been reporting a peculiar subject—their telephones aren’t unfolding all the way in which. However, one Reddit person has managed to uncover the explanation behind this. He believes that particles finds its means into the shifting a part of the hinge. To remedy the issue, all he needed to do was dismantle the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and take away particles from the hinge by hand.In the publish, the Galaxy Z Fold 4 person described having an more and more troublesome time opening their smartphone utterly flat. After failed makes an attempt to get Samsung to restore or exchange the Galaxy Z Fold 4, he determined to take aside the gadget, revealing a set of lint, thread, and different particles trapped contained in the hinge that prevented it from opening. After placing the gadget again collectively, the Galaxy Z Fold 4 was capable of open utterly flat once more. Managed to Open Fold 4 Flat – Evidence Against Samsung’s Warranty Denial from r/GalaxyFoldThis may trace at a much bigger drawback that tech corporations ought to deal with whereas making foldables. Dust, particles, and different small particles may influence the general efficiency of the gadget. The subject of folding telephones not opening flat turned an necessary subject across the launch of the Google Pixel Fold, which some declare shouldn’t be capable of unfold flat. One of our items at Android Central appears to be restricted to 178-179 levels quite than the total 180 levels.Those are a number of the greatest tales from this week. Meanwhile, listed here are another tales which might be price catching up on: