Apple Creator Studio Updates

Welcome to Night five Mac Daily for Friday, july third, twenty twenty six. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by Back Blaze Leading off today, Tim Cook reportedly this week held constructive talks with EU regulators over the availability of Siri AI and new Apple intelligence features in the European Union. The backstory here is that during WWDC, Apple announced that Siri AI would not launch in the EU alongside IOS twenty seven and iPadOS twenty seven due to the Digital Markets Act People said that EU regulators did not accept any of its proposed solutions to bring Siri AI to the EU while safely supporting other virtual assistance Apple's proposed solution was called Trusted System Agent, which the company described as an intermediary that would allow virtual assistance to safely access the same features and capabilities as Siri AI in the European Union Aeppople said it proposed an eighteen month transition period that would allow Siri AI to launch while the company gradually rolled out trusted System agent but claimed the European Commission rejected the plan Now, as reported by the Financial Times, Tim Cook this week held a virtual meeting with European Commission regulators to address this impasse over Siri AI An EU spokesperson said the virtual meeting involved a constructive exchange on topics of common interest on which the work continues The meeting included a discussion about how Apple can launch Siri AI in Europe while avoiding fines under the Digital Markets Act The report did not indicate how much progress has been made in these talks between Apple and the European Commission It does at least signal that the talks are ongoing and that Apple is committed to at least trying to find a way to launch Siri AI in the European Union In other News todayay, Apple has acquired a variety of different apps recently, and the latest is called Pay which won the twenty twenty five Apple Design Award in the innovation category Due to the Digital Markets Act in the European Union, Apple is now required to disclose acquisitions above a certain size to the European Commission Th those acquisitions are then publicized on the European Commission website The latest edition is an acquisition for Rabbit three Times company that does business as play From the listing, Apple says that it will acquire certain assets and have the right to offer employment and to hire certain employees of the company Apple describes play as a sophisticated, yet accessible tool that lets users build interactive prototypes with Swift UI frameworks Apple says it has a thoughtfully crafted user interface that is both powerful and easy to navigate and helps designers create interactive prototypes and collaborate across Mac and iPhone all synced in real time for seamless creativity. Apple says the acquisition was completed back in February and at that time the play app was removed from the apppp store As is almost always the case with these types of acquisitions, it's unclear what exactly will happen next for Play and its developers Perhaps Apple will integrate these features into X code or relaunch Pay altogether as a standalone application But either way, it's likely that we'll see these tools from play added to Apple's free developer resources at some point in the future We are sponsored this week by Back Blaze. 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Try it for free at backblaze d. com slash nine to five Mac and get twenty percent off with code nine to five daily Running out this week, Apple has announced a ton of new features for Apple Creator Studio and the apps included in the bundle brings new integrations with PixelMater Pro across Final Cut Pro, keynote, pages and numbers as well as more intelligent tools in Final Cup Pro the ability to generate shapes to further customize a project and a new producer project feature in Logic Pro Apple has made it easy to edit images from iWork apps and Final Cut Pro directly in Pixelmator Pro with its more powerful editing tools then changes you make to those images will automatically be saved in the original app Pixelmer Pro also now has access to Apple's content hub which includes Apple curated photos, illustrations, graphics, backgrounds, and more that creators can use as part of their Apple Creator stududio subscription. Final Cut Pro is adding new tools, including the ability to generate animated captions, a new edit detection capability auto mask support and new creator themes with support for multiple aspect ratios, dynamic titles and customizable backgrounds You can hit the link in the show notes for a full rundown of these updates to Apple's Creator Studio apps, including details on what new features require a subscription and which don't Runing out this week, the United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear Apple's appeal over a lower court ruling that held the company in contempt related to its ongoing antitrust battle with Epic Games over the App Store Bloomberg reports that in a brief ordered this week, the Supreme Court justustices said they will review the lower court's decisions that said Apple willfully defied a twenty twenty one ruling involving developer fees for the app store pmeourt orderericated that it would not consider a second issue that Apple had raised, challenging the judge's decision to enter a so called universal injunction covering how the company dealt with all developers worldwide Instead, the Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal on whether it should have been held in contempt for charging a commission on purchases made outside of the app store In short, in twenty twenty one, it was ruled that Apple must allow apps to offer external links by which users can pay for services and subscriptions But Apple implemented commissions related to those links, and that practice was later ruled as being in violation of the original order. P, of course, disagrees and says the injunction didn't prevent it from instituting new fees on external purchases. And now the Supreme Court will hear its appeal. That wraps up another episode and another week of Ny to five Mac Daily. As always, if you like the show, it's very helpful to us if you head to Apple podcast and leave a rating and a review You can find an ad free version of the show at ninetine to fiveMac d. com slash join for five dollars a month or fifty dollars a year Find all of the latest Ale news on ninety to five Back. com Follow along with me on threads at Chance H Miller And we'll be back on Monday for a new week of Apple News