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Two Chinese college students who are accused of sending counterfeit iPhones to Apple, pretending that they were malfunctioning while still under warranty to get brand-new replacements, have cost the Cupertino-based firm nearly $1m in losses. At least that is what US prosecutors claim. The fraudsters returned close to 1,500 faulty phones to Apple, which the […]
Apple is planning some rather extraordinary upgrades for its 2019 range of iPhones, but something else is raising eyebrows right now: the decisions that the firm is making about current models. According to the Economic Times, Apple is responding in a rather peculiar fashion to lacklustre sales in India. It has decided to take the […]
Longbow Research analyst Shawn Harrison said yesterday that Apple’s supply chain and public demand for iPhones have suffered serious setbacks, and that it will take a long time for iPhone sales to recover. Speaking to Bloomberg, he said: “Multiple iPhone price cuts did not stop China iPhone search trends from weakening further while February supplier […]
Finally, it’s official: Apple yesterday sent out invitations for its long-awaited media event on 25 March at the Apple Park Campus. The company used the “It’s Show Time” slogan for the event, which seems to confirm expectations that it will be more about services than about hardware. Most observers expect the firm to announce a […]
In many respects, Apple’s 2018 audit report brought good news about its supply chain. According to the firm’s 13th yearly Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, it found 27 “core violations” of labour rules – significantly fewer than the 44 that it uncovered the previous year. The report lists 24 instances of fraudulent working hours and two […]
Apple announced yesterday that it intended to lay off 190 workers who are currently employed in Project Titan, its self-driving car programme. In a filing with US state regulators, the Cupertino-based company said that eight Santa Clara County facilities near its headquarters would be affected as of 16 April. A spokesperson confirmed that all of […]
Apart from Google, there’s at least one other firm developing augmented reality (AR) maps. Yesterday (26 February 2019), Apple registered a patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office for a “method for representing points of interest in a view of a real environment on a mobile device.” In English, that means looking at things […]
A poll among seven large publishers who regularly contribute to Apple News revealed that all seven of them realise unusually low advertising sales around their articles. They also complain about the remarkably low reader numbers at the start. In the Digiday poll, one publisher reported earning less than $1,000 a month, while another one mentioned […]
Apple has joined forces with Alipay, a Chinese mobile payments firm, to offer interest-free loans to Chinese consumers in an effort to boost sales in that country. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the two firms told prospective buyers about the new deal this week. To qualify, they have to buy products worth more […]
In a research note sent to clients, TF International Securities’ analyst Ming-Chi Kuo recently revealed to clients that Apple intends to launch two new iPad Pro versions with “upgraded processors” this year. The list also includes an upgraded iPad Mini. Apple has released no upgrades for the Mini since it announced the Mini 4 in […]
Apple announced yesterday that it will resume selling older iPhone models in Germany, but only ones with Qualcomm chips. The company stopped selling these devices in Germany after a court order last year. According to Apple, it didn’t have any other choice than to stop using Intel Corp chips in iPhones destined for Germany, because […]
Grant Thompson, a 14-year-old American teenager who recently revealed a security bug in Apple’s FaceTime, will receive a “bug bounty” from the firm, as well as a grant to further his education. The precise amount is unknown but, in similar cases in the past, Apple has forked out roughly between $25,000 and $200,000. This is […]
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