In a surprising move, Apple has thrown its weight behind California’s SB 244, the “Right to Repair Act” aimed at giving consumers the legal right to repair their own electronic devices. Apple has spent many years and millions of dollars fighting against consumer right of repair.
After the last appeal to a class-action judgement failed, Apple is finally ready to offer compensation to owners of particular iPhone models. The tech giant was sued for secretly lowering performance to convince customers to purchase a new iPhone.
Apple and The Tetris Company are facing a lawsuit filed by author Dan Ackerman, who accuses them of adapting his 2016 book The Tetris Effect: The Game That Hypnotized the World into a film without his permission. The lawsuit, which identifies 22 “similarities” between the book and the movie Tetris which released earlier this year, requests damages of six percent of the film’s $80 million production budget, equal to $4.8 million.
Apple’s iconic iPhone has experienced a revenue decline for the third consecutive quarter, but the drop in hardware sales has been balanced out by accelerating growth in the company’s services division.
Elon Musk has announced his intention to speak with Apple CEO Tim Cook about the company’s 30 percent commission on in-app purchases, commonly referred to as the “Apple tax.” The issue was raised to Musk based on the massive slice of Twitter content creators’ revenue claimed by Apple.
Tech giant Apple is being sued by over 1,500 British app developers over excessive fees for access to the app store, the only means of distributing apps to iPhone users.
In an attempt to tap into a vast new market, Facebook (now known as Meta) is in discussions with Tencent, the world’s largest video game publisher, to introduce its Quest VR headset to China. Mark Zuckerberg’s company reportedly faces an uphill battle in selling its wares in the communist country.
Apple has made history by becoming the first publicly traded company to close a trading day with a market capitalization of $3 trillion. The iPhone giant has flirted with the landmark valuation in the past, but failed to achieve the market at the close of trading until Friday.
The crash detection feature on iPhones, which is supposed to contact emergency services if it detects that the smartphone has been in a car accident, has been implicated in a dramatic increase in bogus emergency calls during the recent Bonnaroo Music Festival in Coffee County, Tennessee. First responders noted that false emergency calls quintupled during the festival, caused by iPhones that equated dancing with car crashes.
Apple has recently imposed restrictions on the use of external artificial intelligence tools, including ChatGPT, among its workforce as it focuses on developing its own AI technology.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla is backing AliveCor, a startup specializing in heart-monitoring technology, in a protracted legal battle against tech giant Apple. AliveCor alleges that Apple stole its heart monitoring technology and stifled its capacity to offer its services on the popular Apple Watch platform. Describing Apple, Khosla said, “I think it’s really important that they not bully people and so we decided to make it a public battle.”
Apple has placed restrictions on its employees’ use of generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GitHub’s Copilot, citing data security concerns. According to an internal communication, Apple believes that “Generative AIs, while powerful, can potentially collect and share confidential data, leading to a breach of our security protocols.”
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Foxconn, a principal supplier of components for the Apple iPhone, announced Tuesday it will purchase a large parcel of land near the Indian tech hub of Bengaluru.
Apple co-founder and computing legend Steve Wozniak has issued a warning about the potential for artificial intelligence to make scams and hoaxes more challenging to identify, urging for clear labeling and regulation of AI-generated content.
Apple is venturing further into the health and wellness sector with the development of an AI-powered health coaching service, codenamed Quartz, and the expansion of its health app to include new features aimed at tracking emotions. Tim Cook’s creepy vision of the future includes your iPhone determining your mood based on analyzing your speech, typed words, and other data from their devices.
Tech giant Apple has been accused of stealing technology from smaller companies by more than two dozen executives, inventors, investors, and lawyers. Incredibly, Apple claims it is the victim. A spokesperson said, “The truth is, these companies are blatantly copying our products or stifling competition by using invalid patents.”
Apple has launched its “Apple Pay Later” feature that will allow users to pay for purchases in multiple installments. The service encourages Americans to take on more debt with loans for items from $50 to $1,000.
Apple CEO Tim Cook praised his company’s “symbiotic relationship” with China during his first visit to the communist country since the Chinese coronavirus pandemic plagued the world.
Silicon Valley giant Apple has implemented a stricter hybrid work policy in an effort to reduce costs and streamline its workforce. Tim Cook’s company is now actively tracking its in-person attendance schedule and warning employees that attempt to shirk the requirement to work in the office several days a week.
Apple has added a “Clean Energy Charging” feature to its latest iOS update, with many users complaining of slower charging times on their devices. The change is part of the company’s obsession with green policies but can be disabled to restore full charging capabilities.
Tech giant Apple recently released its quarterly earnings report, with results falling short of analysts’ predictions. There is no question where Apple places the blame for its lackluster earnings — during the earnings call, CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri mentioned a variation of the phrase “challenging economy” seven times.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has accused Apple of imposing policies on employees that are illegal and violate workers’ rights to engage in collective action.
Spotify and eight other app developers and associations have sent a letter to Margrethe Vestager, the executive vice president of the EU Commission, urging her to take legal action against Apple’s app distribution methods. The letter states that “Apple benefits from a monopoly position over its mobile ecosystem and extracts exorbitant rents from app developers who have no choice but to remain on the App Store to reach European consumers.”
Apple has slashed CEO Tim Cook’s pay by 40 percent following a recent shareholder vote questioning his massive compensation package. Cook’s pay will be more closely tied to Apple’s stock performance, which was weak in 2022.
Dispatchers at the Summit County 911 Center have reportedly been fielding huge numbers of automated notifications from local skiers’ iPhones and Apple Watches at the county’s four ski areas last weekend. New iPhones feature “crash detection” and “fall detection” that automatically call 911 when the device thinks its user has been in a car wreck or other accident, which skiing apparently sets off as well.
The high-stakes fight over the Eagle Act outsourcing bill now has a simple battle line: The West Coast tech investors and pro-migration progressives versus everyone else.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney recently stated that he’s willing to go to the Supreme Court to fight Apple’s control of the App Store, but hopes Congress steps in first. Commenting on the massive power shared by Google and Apple over apps, Sweeney said, “It’s incredibly dangerous to let the world’s most powerful corporation decide who can say what.”
Apple is reportedly being sued by two women who claim that the company’s AirTag tracking devices have made it easy for stalkers to track and harass victims.
Twitter owner Elon Musk claims that Apple has “fully resumed” advertising on the social media platform following a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook that apparently ended an escalating feud between the tech titans.
Apple CEO Tim Cook was recently asked whether he supports the rights of Chinese citizens to protest against their communist government’s strict coronavirus policies – Cook remained completely silent.
Twitter owner Elon Musk recently tweeted that he visited Apple’s headquarters where he met with CEO Tim Cook. Musk described the threat of Apple blacklisting Twitter from the iPhone App Store as a “misunderstanding.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is calling on Apple CEO Tim Cook, considered the “architect” of the multinational corporation’s offshoring business model, to end all operations in China and reshore manufacturing to the United States.
A new report reveals that Apple was Twitter’s biggest advertiser in Q1 2022, accounting for almost $50 million in revenue. Elon Musk now claims Tim Cook’s company has “mostly stopped advertising” on Twitter, a move that comes during the busy holiday shopping season. The loss of such a major customer could be a problem for Musk’s Twitter before even taking into account Apple’s threat to drop the platform from the App Store.
Twitter owner Elon Musk said today that Apple has threatened to suspend the platform from its app store, threatening “war” against the hardware company in subsequent tweets.
According to new research shared exclusively with Gizmodo, there are thousands of bots pretending to be Apple users browsing the web and looking at advertisements. The bots cost advertisers $65 million in wasted ads that never reach human users.
Facebook (now known as Meta) is attacking Apple’s iMessage app in a new advertisement that further fuels the rivalry between the two companies.
The Apple iPhone 14’s new “Crash Detection” feature, which is supposed to call authorities when it detects that someone has been in a car accident, has been calling 911 when unsuspecting users are enjoying rollercoaster rides at theme parks.
While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been funneling billions into developing his digital metaverse, Apple CEO Tim Cook maintains that the average person still can’t even define what the metaverse is.
According to recent reports, the U.S. Department of Justice is in the early stages of drafting an antitrust lawsuit against Apple.
A former Apple engineer who was accused of stealing computer files with trade secrets about Apple’s car division and was caught attempting to flee the country to Communist China pleaded guilty to the charges in federal court this week.
