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China forces new 7-day COVID lockdown around major Apple iPhone factory
China’s quixotic “zero-COVID” quest continues as the Chinese Communist Party imposes yet another 7-day lockdown in the city where…
Foxconn says production normal at Chinese iPhone plant despite CCP’s COVID-19 curbs
Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn said on Friday production at its largest iPhone factory remains normal, despite the CCP …
Apple suppliers add American manufacturing sites, with focus on California
Apple suppliers added manufacturing operations in America in fiscal 2021, a sign of how quixotic COVID-19 responses…
Remote ‘work’ is great for deteriorating work culture, lowering productivity, and wasting time
As a group of Apple employees launch a petition against returning to actual work for three days a week, studies show that remote “work” is…
Group of Apple workers launch petition against return-to-office mandate
A group of Apple employees is opposing the company’s return-to-office mandate, arguing that working in-person is too restrictive after…
Apple orders staff to back to work in office three days per week in bid to boost productivity
Apple has ordered staff back to the office a whole three days a week in an attempt to finally wind down COVID-era “remote work” in a bid to…
Apple drops face mask requirements for most of its corporate workers
Apple is dropping its mask mandates for corporate employees at “most locations,” according to an internal email from the COVID-19 response…
Apple offers rare iPhone promo with 4 days of discounts in China
Apple on Monday announced a rare retail promotion in China on Monday, offering four days of discounts on its premium iPhones and related…
Apple assembler BYD to start iPad production in Vietnam this month
Apple assembler BYD plans to begin commercial production of iPads this month in Vietnam after a trial run started in May, a provincial…
Apple to move some iPad production out of China for first time due to CCP’s quixotic ‘zero-COVID’ crusade
Apple is moving iPad production out of China for the first time in history and the Chinese Communist Party’s quixotic “zero-COVID” crusade…
Apple assembler Quanta faces worker revolt in locked down Shanghai factory
Apple assembler Quanta faces a revolt by workers stuck inside a Shanghai factory locked down due the CCP’s quixotic “xero-COVID” crusade…
Apple looks to diversify manufacturing outside of China due to draconian COVID-19 restrictions
Apple has told some of its contract manufacturers that it wants to boost production outside China, citing the Chinese Communist Party’s…
Elon Musk mocks Apple over yet another return-to-work delay
Elon Musk is publicly mocking Apple which has once again delayed a plan to require workers to come back to the office three days a week…
Apple delays plan to have workers return to office three days a week
Apple has yet again delayed a plan to require workers to come back to the office three days a week, citing a resurgence in COVID-19 cases…
Apple assembler Foxconn faces logistics disarray from China’s quixotic ‘zero-COVID’ lockdowns
Apple assembler Foxconn said it faces logistics disruptions and other challenges in China stemming from the CCP’s stringent COVID-19 …
Apple’s machine learning director quits over return to office policy
Director of machine learning Ian Goodfellow announced his resignation last week, telling colleagues that the company’s return-to-work in…
Workers at Apple supplier factory in China clash with guards over ‘zero-COVID’ lockdowns
Hundreds of workers at an Apple supplier’s factory in China clashed with authorities, flooding past barriers after draconian lockdowns…
Apple assembler Foxconn says no change to production as China ratchets up quixotic ‘zero-COVID’ quest
The CCP has shut down dozens of metro stations and bus routes in Bejing as it ratchets up its quixotic quest to achieve zero-COVID …
Some Apple employees bristle as three-day office return looms
Some Apple employees are bristling over the company’s requirement that will soon call for most of its corporate workers to be in the office…
China’s quixotic ‘zero-COVID’ quest pushes February MacBook Pro orders into June
Customers who ordered a MacBook Pro with an M1 Max chip in February are being notified that their new Macs aren’t coming until June…
Some Apple Retail Stores are hiring fewer ‘genius’ employees
Apple has slowed hiring at select retail locations for its “Genius” positions, an effort that some employees see as a cost-cutting move…
Apple supplier Unimicron says operations have partially resumed in Kunshan, China
Taiwan’s Unimicron Technology Corp. said on Thursday that, of its two plants in eastern China’s Kunshan, one would remain closed…
Half of Apple’s suppliers at risk in China due to quixotic ‘zero-COVID’ lockdown quest
Half of Apple’s 200 top suppliers have facilities in and around Shanghai, China where the CCP’s quixotic quest for “zero-COVID” has caused…
Pegatron suspends iPhone assembly in Shanghai and Kunshan due to draconian Chinese crackdown
Apple iPhone assembler Pegatron has suspended production in Shanghai and Kunshan amid a draconian crackdown that the CCP claims…
Apple corporate employees slowly begin returning to office work
After a more than two-year “work”-from-home policy that Apple implemented in March 2020 in response to COVID-19, Apple corporate…
Apple employees say they’ll quit over return-to-office policy
Apple’s return-to-office policy is far stricter than other big tech companies — and some employees say they plan to quit in protest…
Apple assembler Foxconn resumes normal operations in Shenzhen after China lockdowns
Major Apple assembler Foxconn has resumed normal operations at its most important campuses in in Shenzhen, China after…
Apple tries again, sets return-to-work deadline for April 11th
Apple will once again try to get employees back to work in the office. The company has set an April 11th deadline for corporate employees to…
Apple drops COVID mask mandate for corporate and retail employees
Apple has now dropped its mask requirement for both corporate and retail employees as local governments reassess their various COVID-19…
Apple to increase COVID-19 testing for vaccinated retail employees ahead of dropping employee mask mandate
Apple plans to begin testing vaccinated retail staff twice a week for COVID-19 in preparation for dropping its mask mandate…
Apple Retail Stores drop COVID mask mandates
Apple has dropped its mask requirement at most retail stores across the U.S. and is also ramping up for the return of in-store classes…
New ‘PublicSq.’ app connects freedom-loving Americans with businesses against COVID vaccine mandates
A new app, called “PublicSq.” aims to connect freedom-loving Americans with local community, reliable information and businesses…
The sneaky way COVID-19 helped Apple
Obviously, due to the various and sundry COVID-19 responses around the world, rational and irrational, more people worked from home…
Apple will now require employees to submit proof of COVID-19 booster shot or face frequent testing
Apple now requires store and corporate employees to get a COVID-19 booster shot or face frequent testing, according to an internal email…
U.S. job growth misses badly, sharply missing economists’ expectation
U.S. job growth faltered in December the Labor Department said in its monthly payroll report released Friday. Payrolls in December rose by…
Virtually nobody in America is using an Apple-Google COVID-19 contact tracing app
Virtually nobody in America today is using an Apple-Google COVID-19 contact tracing (exposure notification) app…
Apple closes retail stores to indoor traffic in New York City over COVID fears
Apple has closed its stores in New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island) to indoor traffic over fears of COVID…
Apple closes eight retail stores in U.S. and Canada over COVID fears
Apple has temporarily shuttered at least eight retail stores over the past few days over COVID-19 fears and reinstated its mask mandate…
Stock futures tumble on Omicron COVID variant fears
U.S. stock index futures tumbled, dragged by concerns about the impact of tighter restrictions over fears of the Omicron COVID variant…
Apple indefinitely delays return of employees to corporate offices over COVID fears
Apple is indefinitely delaying the return of employees to corporate offices from February 1 to a “date yet to be determined” due to COVID…
Apple closes Texas retail store due to COVID-19 outbreak
An Apple store in Southlake, Texas, is closed Wednesday through Sunday this week following an outbreak of positive Covid-19 cases among…
