John Boyega jumps from ‘Star Wars’ to ‘Pacific Rim’

John Boyega goes from toppling The First Order to fighting Kaiju. The Star Wars star has lined up his next franchise in the form of Pacific Rim 2, a sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s action sci-fi monster movie. Aside from starring in it as the son of Idris Elba’s character from the first film, his production company UpperRoom Productions will be producing the sequel alongside Legendary Pictures. The new film will be directed by Steven S. DeKnight, who’s worked on the several Spartacus TV shows and replaced Drew Goddard as showrunner for Netflix’s Daredevil. Del Toro will become a producer for the sequel. There is no word though if Charlie Hunnam will be reprising his role as Raleigh Becket.

Source: Independent

LG Innotek is reportedly exclusive dual-lens camera module supplier for ‘iPhone 7 Plus’

"iPhone 7 Plus" dual camera design mockup by Feld & Volk

If a recent Korean report is to be believed, LG Innotek instead of Sony will be supplying the rumoured dual-lens camera modules for the upcoming Apple “iPhone 7 Plus.” The shipping of the modules, according to Business Korea, should start this month and will see LG monopolizing the supply of that part for the rest of the year. But that could change by 2017 if other partners enter the picture. Sony was expected to be fulfilling this order or at least take majority of it since the company has been a regular image sensor supplier for Apple. But low production yields and earthquake damage at its Kumamoto facilities have caused manufacturing issues for Sony. Sony denied any disruption in production but reports like these say otherwise. Previous rumours claim that LG was supposed to take the first wave of orders but it seems they’ll be taking on all orders.

Source: Apple Insider

Google rumoured to be re-thinking its revenue sharing with app developers

After Apple announced its new plan for app developers, Google’s reportedly thinking of doing the same thing for its own developers. According to Recode, though, the 85/15 revenue split Google also plans to implement will begin immediately. It won’t require developers to have a user subscribe for one year before the new revenue sharing method kicks in, which is what Apple is doing. Unnamed sources said Google has been trying this out with entertainment companies over a year ago with video services to boost its offerings as well as have them work on its TV streaming devices such as the Cast dongle. There isn’t any confirmation yet, though, if Google will implement this and when. Google has long been trying to get developers to invest in its platform like they do with Apple so we won’t be surprised if the tech giant does resolve to do this.

Source: Recode

Apple to start showing ads in App Store

Google’s done it to the Play Store last year and now Apple’s bringing it into its own App Store in the U.S. iOS users will soon see paid ads show up when you search for specific apps in the App Store. Apple claims they’ll show no more than one ad marked in blue at the top of the search list when you look by name or subject. The tech giant claims this it a way to bring visibility to apps that are finding it hard to get noticed in an increasingly crowded app market. Apple promises that wealthy advertisers won’t dominate the results and they are working on ways to help users find new apps.

Aside from this, Apple is encouraging app-makers to sell their apps on a subscription basis. They promise these developers bigger revenue cut (from 70 percent to 85 percent) if consumers maintain their subscription for at least a year. This, they say, will help give developers a more reliable and long-term stream of income.

Source: Apple