Enlarge / A building at Apple Park, the company’s Cupertino, California, HQ. Apple Apple reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of its 2023 fiscal year on Thursday, and while the revenue dollar count was enormous as usual, the company nonetheless reported lower year-over-year revenue for the third consecutive quarter. The iPhone was the only […]
Apple says it has no plans to update the 27-inch iMac with Apple Silicon chips
Enlarge / The original 27-inch 5K iMac, introduced in 2014. Andrew Cunningham Apple’s 27-inch iMac was one of the few Intel Macs (along with the iMac Pro) to be discontinued with no direct Apple Silicon replacement. It used to be Apple’s mainstream workstation Mac, but in the Apple Silicon era, that role has been filled […]
Why today’s Epic v. Google trial is (and isn’t) a repeat of Epic v. Apple
Enlarge / Epic says launching Fortnite on Android without Google Play is as difficult as playing Fortnite while skydiving. OK, they didn’t literally say that, but work with me here… Epic Games Epic vs. Apple/Google View more stories Two years ago, Epic Games went to court to challenge what it called Apple’s monopolistic control of […]
EU regulator says Apple should be on hook for €14.3 billion tax bill
Apple Apple has been dealt a blow in its €14.3 billion tax dispute with Brussels after an adviser to the EU’s top court said an earlier ruling over its business in Ireland should be shelved. Giovanni Pitruzzella, advocate-general of the European Court of Justice, the EU’s highest court, said on Thursday that a landmark decision […]
Simple circuitry, surprising engineering: Inside counterfeit Apple gadgets
Enlarge / Lumafield’s blog shared this image showing CT scans of three earbuds. The left is a real AirPods Pro (2nd Gen). The wire-riddled two on the right are fakes. Whether they’re products pretending to be made by a brand or devices claiming to be something they’re not, (like a microSD card posing as an […]
Apple exec departure leads to major iPhone, Apple Watch reshuffle
Enlarge / The iPhone 15 Pro. Samuel Axon According to a report in Bloomberg, Tang Tan, vice president of Product Design, is leaving Apple, and his departure heralds a shuffle of executives heading up some of the company’s most important products. Sometimes, you might wonder just how much a specific executive influences the grand scheme […]
Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke in Mexico City before scheduled talk
Enlarge / Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak attends the Digital X 2022 event by Deutsche Telekom on September 13, 2022, in Cologne, Germany. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images On Wednesday, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak suffered a minor stroke while attending a conference in Mexico City, reports ABC News and The New York Times. The 73-year-old was scheduled to […]
Online Rakhi Shopping – An Innovative Way to Surprise Your Siblings
Online Rakhi Shopping Online rakhi shopping is an innovative way to surprise your siblings on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan. This traditional ritual celebrates the unbreakable bond of love and care between brothers and sisters. It also gives us an opportunity to show our loved ones that we care about them, even if they are […]
Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says
Enlarge / Apple Store at Garden State Plaza mall on November 4, 2023, in Paramus, New Jersey. Getty Images | Gary Hershorn Apple illegally discriminated against US citizens and other US residents in its hiring and recruitment practices for certain types of positions that went to foreign workers, the US Department of Justice said yesterday. […]
Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal
Google’s default search deal with Apple is worth so much to the search giant that Google pays 36 percent of its search advertising revenue from Safari to keep its search engine set as the default in Apple’s browser, Bloomberg reported. Google and Apple objected to making this key detail public from their long-running default search […]