
Interest in mobile AP processors slumps
Strategy Analytics says it fell five percent
Beancounters at Strategy Analytics have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and decided that the global smartphone applications processor (AP) market declined five percent on year to $20.2 billion in 2017.

Apple offs Japan Display
Another partner in trouble as Apple moves to OLED
Another company which leaned rather too heavily on Apple is in trouble after Jobs' Mob has decided to use OLED screens in all three new iPhone models planned for next year.

Don't give me steam
Apple blocks Steam Apps
Apple has blocked the plans of the biggest distributor of PC-based video games to extend its reach into iPhones because, while it would give users access to a lot of games, Steam did not want to gut its bottom line and give Apple all its profits.

Apple signs deal with VW
Fruity cargo cult will work with Hitler's favourite car company
The super-green Apple will work alongside a European car maker which has been fined for fiddling its emission ratings to take control of its employee's self-driving shuttles.

Apple knew its iPhone would bend
It still denied it
Fruity cargo cult Apple knew that its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were designed in such a way that they would bend, according to internal documents.

US court rules against Samsung over iPhone design
Neither side happy
A US court has ruled that Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing five patents with Android phones it sold in 2010 and 2011, but there are major reasons why Apple will not be happy with the verdict.

TSMC starts work on Apple's A12
7nm
The dark satanic rumour mill has started a hell on earth yarn claiming that TSMC has started work on Apple's custom built Apple A12 CPU built on a 7-nm process.

Google sued for tracking Apple fanboys
It cared what they did, apparently.
Google is being sued in the UK high court for as much as $4.3 billion for the alleged "clandestine tracking and collation" of personal information from 4.4 million iPhone users.

Apple fanboy Trump refuses to part with his two iPhones
Despite security fears
Despite the fact that he is placing the United States in the hands of Apple's unique security system, President Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump refuses to give up his two iPhones, even if his security staff plead with him to be a little more sensible.

Apple developers form a union
Cheesed off with the company's heavy handed antics
Fed up with the way that Apple treats developers, a group of iOS developers have marked the tenth anniversary of the Apple app store by forming a trade union.