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The Major League Soccer season pass is back for Apple TV, with soccer fans in over 100 countries able to sign up to watch the 2024 season, along with an expansion of Multiview.

Ahead of the February 21 kick-off of the 2024 Major League Soccer season, the MLS Season Pass is now available to repurchase on Apple TV. The pass provides access to every MLS game broadcast without any blackouts.

Along with the matches, the pass includes in-depth coverage and analysis, and exclusive content. This includes the Leagues Cup, MLS All-Star, and Audi MLS Cup Playoffs games. This season will also include a first-of-its-kind whip-around show for Spanish-speaking fans.

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Touch Bar enthusiasts, Apple’s closeout 13-inch MacBook Pro with 512GB storage is discounted to $1,299 while supplies last.

AppleInsider readers can save $200 on the M2 13-inch MacBook Pro with 8GB of memory and a bump up to 512GB of storage, the latter being double the storage capacity of the standard M2 model (on sale for $1,049 at B&H). To activate the discount on the 512GB model, enter code APINSIDER during Step 3 of checkout at Apple Authorized Reseller Adorama. Detailed step-by-step activation instructions showing where to locate the promo code field can be found further down this page.

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Despite Apple TV+ having the fewest subscribers of the main streamers, its “Ted Lasso” hit was watched far more in 2023 than any other streaming show.

Streaming ratings are usually harder to parse than they ever were with network television, because viewers can be watching any or all episodes that are available. But if the ratings can’t prove one episode is more popular than another, they have previously shown that “Ted Lasso” hit a season high in April 2023.

In one week during that month, a very impressive 795 million minutes of “Ted Lasso” was watched. Now according to Deadline, the Nielsen ratings figure for the show during whole of 2023 was 16.9 billion minutes.

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A European Commissioner has laid down the law, and has declared that Apple will be the target of “strong action” if its compliance with the Digital Markets Act isn’t enough.

The EU Digital Markets Act will come into effect in March, and Apple has advised of the changes it will make to comply. While those plans have gathered complaints, the EU itself has warned that Apple faces the prospect of penalties if it fails to do enough to comply with the new rules.

The European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton told Reuters “The DMA will open the gates of the internet to competition so that digital markets are fair and open. Change is already happening.”

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