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Apple gets Exodus spyware
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 09 April 2019 11:47

Apple gets Exodus spyware


Following Android again

When the surveillance tool dubbed "Exodus" started appearing on Android, the Tame Apple Press made a big thing about how its favourite operating was safe.

Apple turns to muppets to code
Published in News
Monday, 08 April 2019 12:24

Apple turns to muppets to code


Bought to you by the acronym “FFS.”

Apple is proving that it should be let nowhere near television programming by announcing a TV programme for kids where muppets program software.

Apple headhunts Google AI boffin
Published in AI
Friday, 05 April 2019 12:01

Apple headhunts Google AI boffin


Needs more live brains

Fruity cargo cult Apple is desperate for new ideas and has hired one of Google's top minds in artificial intelligence to help out.

Apple wants users to spend $250 on new earbuds
Published in News


Just to drop the wire

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

Apple’s new iPad mini is a design and parts rehash
Published in Mobiles


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.

Apple finally going to give users slightly more viable batteries
Published in News


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.

Apple lower prices in China again
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 02 April 2019 11:40

Apple lower prices in China again


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.

Buffett doubtful about Apple content plan
Published in News


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.

Apple could easily bring in “right to repair”
Published in Mobiles


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.

Apple 7, 8, 10, Xs and Xr infringe Qualcomm patent
Published in Mobiles


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.