Apple’s Tim Cook is certainly different to Steve Jobs in almost every way. Perhaps his biggest difference is how ready he is to own up and admit when his company has been in the wrong. He apologized publicly over the Maps debacle at the back end of last year and yesterday, apologized to China’s market over warranty issues. Thankfully, his apology has…
As you may have heard, Apple, among other large companies were hacked earlier this week. It was later found that an online forum was partly to blame for the incident, and it was then assumed that hackers from China were responsible. However, today a new report is out via Bloomberg stating that actually it was hackers from Eastern European countries…
Tim Cook has today been in talks with China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua, discussing the relationship between the two companies. China Mobile’s spokesperson released the following, stating that: “In the morning, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook visited China Mobile’s headquarters. China Mobile’s Chairman Xi Guohua and Tim Cook discussed matters of…
So, apparently, if you have your iPhone 5 in your back pocket, and you sit on it, there is a possibility of it bending…wait, what? I don’t know many people who put their phone in their back pocket to begin with, let alone sit on it. So I guess to me it was common sense that if you sit on something made out of then aluminum, it would bend. The user…
News about the manufacturing companies that supply us with Apple’s premium devices is usually sketchy at best, even more so in the wake of endless controversy surrounding the ethical decisions of the companies involved. However, reports today are suggesting that two of Apple’s major Chinese suppliers, Hon Hai Precision Industries (Foxconn) and Flexium…
BGR posted an image today of what appears to be 6 unauthorized Lightning authentication chips. According to the source, there are “multiple versions” of said chips, meaning there are multiple manufacturers working on unlicensed Lightning accessories. Apple is currently the only manufacturer of official Lightning accessories, and there have been…
This is an interesting report coming out of China. According to Shanghai Daily, students in China from Huai’an in Jiangsu Province are being “forced” to work in the Foxconn factories. The report is based on an anonymous post found online stating that the poster and “several other students from at least five colleges” are being made to work 12 hour…
Looks like Apple’s team of lawyers is taking a break from filing lawsuits to defend against one. A China-based company called Zhizhen Network Technology is suing the tech giant for allegedly infringing upon a 2006 patent for a “a type of instant messaging chat bot system.” The lawsuit was filed on June 26 of this year and claims that Apple’s…
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