Apple tries to avoid Chinese tariffs
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Monday, 04 November 2019 10:46

Apple tries to avoid Chinese tariffs


We don't think Apple fanboys should be paying

Apple is thinking different and believes that it should not be paying tariffs as part of the US's trade war with China.

Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion
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Monday, 04 November 2019 10:20

Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion


Will take on Apple and Samsung

Google has written a $2.1 billion cheque to buy exercise outfit Fitbit as part of a cunning plan to take on Apple and Samsung in the crowded market for fitness trackers and smartwatches.

iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 unlucky for users
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Friday, 01 November 2019 11:16

iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 unlucky for users


Software angers fanboys

Dedicated followers of the fruity apple cargo cult are incandescent with rage over the new iOS 13 and iPadOS 13.

AirPods are unfixable
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Friday, 01 November 2019 11:08

AirPods are unfixable


Expensive throwaways

iFixit's teardown of Apple's latest AirPods reveals just how difficult it will be to fix them if they break.

Apple's software deleted 20 million app ratings
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Your success deleted

A bug wonderful feature in Apple's App Store removed more than 20 million ratings from apps. 

Apple Pay under investigation by antitrust regulators
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Ordered online sales companies to use its services

Fruity cargo cult, and convicted monopolist, Apple, is being investigated yet again over antitrust allegations.

Apple’s documentation is missing
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Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:01

Apple’s documentation is missing


A developer has even looked at the back of the sofa but there was nothing

Developer Chris Krycho has attracted a fair bit of attention for pointing out that parts of Apple’s software documentation is non-existent.

Why Apple software is so buggy
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Thursday, 24 October 2019 10:57

Why Apple software is so buggy


Former software engineer explains what is going wrong

David Shayer, who worked as a software engineer at Apple for 18 years across iPod, the Apple Watch, and Apple's bug-tracking system Radar, among other projects, has been explaining to Apple fanboys why software standards have shot down the loo.

Apple prices are silly, but Motorola says "hold my beer"
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Bound to Razr an eyebrow or two 

While most people think that Apple's move to jack up the price of handsets backfired, it seems that Motorola didn't get the memo and is making the price tag of its Razr even more stupid.

Apple cocks up the time again
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 22 October 2019 11:35

Apple cocks up the time again


Orders customers to upgrade

The fruity cargo cult Apple’s inability to do basic programming is being used as a marketing tool to force users to update their software.