Just to drop the wire

Fruity-cargo cult Apple wants punters to splash out $250 on new Beats wireless earbuds.

Impossible to repair with more unpleasant sticky stuff than a John Holmes movie 

Apple’s design teams seem to be taking a little time off lately. According to iFixit, the new, fifth-generation iPad mini looks on the outside like a smaller version of the new iPad Air. But it's an updated iPad mini 4.

Moving from a lemon to a potato

For a while now Apple’s 2,658 mAh batteries have been a source of amusement to those who own real smartphones. Jobs’ Mob has thought that making the phone thinner was more important than a battery which offered more than a day’s worth of juice.

Lower taxes

The fruity cargo cult Apple lowered prices for its products in China on Monday not as an admission that it was overpriced, but because a cut in the country’s value-added tax (VAT) rate came into effect.

Still, it can afford to make a couple of mistakes

Financier Warren Buffett refused to give the thumbs up to  Apple's new suite of services.

It just does not want too

Internal documents leaked to the tech press show that Apple is fully capable of implementing any right to repair legislation.

Judge recommends ban on some iPhones

ITC Judge MaryJoan McNamara has declared some verdicts. Apple is infringing one of three patents and she recommends a ban on iPhones manufactured in China being imported into the USA. This is a hardware patent 674 and it doesn’t look that there is a quick workaround.

You lose Mr Bond

Apple’s super secure, highly efficient, well programmed, iTunes seems to have let down Britain’s most famous secret agent.

Apple’s unpaid “press office” refuses to support Apple news

For years the New York Times has bolstered the fruity cargo cult Apple by providing it with free advertising. But now that appears to be coming to an end.

Analysts say it has been bought to its knees and now is looking for an intervention

Japan Display is starting to regret a 2015 deal it did with Apple to build a new factory for LCD panels.