
Foxconn manager nicked 5,700 iPhones
Flogged them for $1.5 million
A Taiwanese Foxconn manager nicked 5,700 iPhones and flogged them for a $1.56 million profit and hugely undercutting Jobs' Mob

Researchers bypass iOS activation lock
Affects latest release iOS 10.1.1
Two researchers from India and Germany have discovered a way to bypass Apple’s iOS activation lock that prevents unauthorized use of the company’s mobile devices when they are marked as lost.

We're piecing together Cook’s cunning plan
What is next for the cargo-cult?
While it is still earning piles of cash, Apple is stuffed unless Tim Cook comes up with a cunning plan to save it.

Smartphone vendors ally against Apple
Enemy of my enema
Chinese smartphone vendors are so worried that Apple is strong arming AMOLED suppliers to suck supply that they have formed their own consortium to fight it.

Apple’s Boot Camp fries MacBook Pro’s new speakers
Quality that only money can buy
Apple’s expensive new MacBook Pros are shipping with an expensive feature which causes the pricey speakers in the machines to self-destruct.

Apple’s update creates poor battery health
Software genius
Fruity tax-dodging cargo-cult Apple’s new iOS update shows its software superiority once again after Jobs’ Mob issued the update without testing it properly with its own applications.

Universal Display’s Apple ties are proving costly
OLED screens might not be happening after all
Rumours that Apple is not going to have an OLED screen in its iPhone 8 are proving costly to its key supplier Universal Display.

Apple planning new 10.5-inch iPads
Bigger tablets are more popular with enterprises
Apple looks set to launch a 10.5-inch iPad in 2017, because businesses and schools want them – apparently.

Trump ready to bribe Apple to move back to the US
Subsiding production like all good socialists
Donald “Prince of Orange” Trump has said that he is prepared to offer all sorts of sweeteners so that Apple will set up a plant in the US.

Apple still makes most of the smartphone profit
As if that is a good thing
The Tame Apple Press is running a story patting its favourite toy maker on the back for making the most profits.