iPhone explodes in 11 year-old’s hands
Apple quickly investigates without saying she was holding it wrong
An 11-year-old girl’s quick thinking saved her when her iPhone caught fire while she was playing with it at her home in California.
Apple gives up on VR and AR
Too hard
ThefFruity cargo-cult Apple has decided that augmented virtual reality is not going to be super, cool, and game-changing, and it has given up on the project.
Apple kills off 12-inch MacBook
Average world standards raised by a fraction
Fruity cargo cult Apple has finally given up on its 12-inch MacBook and got rid of the model
Mac version of Zoom turns on your camera
Turns on your device even when you don’t want to
Security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh has publicly disclosed a severe zero-day vulnerability for the Zoom video conference app on Macs that could allow websites to turn on user cameras without permission.
Apps ignore restrictions
Even saying no is not enough
Security boffins have found more than 1,000 Android apps that skirted restrictions, allowing them to gather precise geolocation data and phone identifiers behind your back.
Apple continues to disappoint Wall Street
Analysts pray it can claw back money by offering “services”
Fruity cargo-cult Apple is continuing to disappoint the cocaine nose-jobs of Wall Street with its lacklustre performance, but it has convinced them that it will make a fortune selling services.
Apple kills butterfly with scissors
These butterflies are just so unreliable
Apple is to ditch the butterfly mechanism used in MacBooks since 2015, which has been the root of reliability issues and is about as popular as the Boston Strangler with Mac users.
Apple’s sign-in insecure
You get that when you mess around with standards
An outfit behind the OpenID open standard and decentralised authentication protocol, has penned an open letter to Apple saying its "Sign In with Apple" feature is insecure.
Ireland opens another privacy investigation into Apple
Turd’s a charm
Apple’s primary regulator in the European Union, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), has opened a third privacy investigation into the Fruity Cargo Cult.
Ive quit because Cook was not really interested in design
Design over substance has always been Apple’s thing
The inventor of the rounded rectangle, Jony Ive’s shock departure from Apple last week was due to Tim Cook no longer believing that pretty tech was the way forward.