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Tag: general idiocy

Exactly how out of it do Joe and Jane Sixpack have to be to trust Google more than Apple with personal data?

Thursday, December 19, 2019 12:24 pmThursday, December 19, 201921 Comments

According to a survey commissioned by cryptographic solutions vendor nCipher, 89% of respondents agreed that encryption is important….

Inexplicably, Americans trust Google more than Apple to keep their data safe

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 2:33 pm19 Comments

A new survey suggests that Apple may still have some work to do to gain trust of the hoi polloi…

iPhone battery explodes in Chinese man’s face after he bites it

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 3:12 pmTuesday, January 23, 201855 Comments

Video of the bizarre incident which captured in the store’s CCTV camera was posted on…

YouTuber nearly dies after cementing a microwave on his head

Friday, December 8, 2017 1:06 pmFriday, December 8, 201729 Comments

Jay Swingler, a YouTube prankster from the UK, nearly died after he put his head inside a cement-filled microwave…

UK passes the ‘most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy’

Thursday, November 17, 2016 1:11 pmThursday, November 17, 201645 Comments

The UK has just passed a massive expansion in surveillance powers, which critics have called…


I went a week without a headphone jack, and it was not good – because I stupidly threw away Apple’s adapter

Thursday, September 22, 2016 4:30 pmThursday, September 22, 201647 Comments

Having spent a week now with an iPhone 7 review unit, I can say that a headphone jack-less existence…

Here’s what happens when you boil an iPhone 6s in melted crayons

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 3:01 pmTuesday, February 16, 201628 Comments

You know how it is. You’re in your kitchen, boiling up your blue crayons…

UK’s Orwellian ‘Investigatory Powers Bill’ seeks to track every Brit’s online activity

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 8:55 amTuesday, February 9, 201617 Comments

A planned British law to give spies and the police wide-ranging new surveillance powers…

Analyst: Apple CEO Tim Cook acts like he’s insane

Sunday, January 31, 2016 3:56 pmSunday, January 31, 201681 Comments

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook is doing exactly what Albert Einstein said defined insanity…

Wikipedia founder: Apple should stop selling iPhones in the UK if ‘stupid’ new law banning Apple encryption is enacted

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 8:55 amWednesday, November 4, 201538 Comments

Apple should stop selling its popular iPhone line in the UK if a new law banning fully encrypted communications is passed…

Thurrott: I don’t have an Apple Watch, but I recommend that you don’t buy one

Monday, April 27, 2015 2:26 pmMonday, April 27, 201567 Comments

I don’t have an Apple Watch yet, but…

6 reasons why Apple is still more doomed than you think

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:25 amWednesday, January 28, 201551 Comments

During its holiday quarter, Apple sold 5.5 million more iPhones…

BlackBerry CEO wants U.S. government to force Apple to make iMessage for BlackBerry under guise of so-called ‘net neutrality’

Thursday, January 22, 2015 8:44 amThursday, January 22, 201529 Comments

BlackBerry CEO John Chen is angry that services like Apple’s iMessage are not available for BlackBerry devices…

iPhone storage lawsuit against Apple is beyond frivolous

Monday, January 5, 2015 9:26 amMonday, January 5, 201550 Comments

Much ado about nothing…

Apple sued for ‘deceiving’ people about iPhone, iPad storage

Friday, January 2, 2015 2:59 pmFriday, January 2, 201574 Comments

Apple is facing a lawsuit over the amount of space…

Apple hit with class action lawsuit over storage consumed by iOS 8

Wednesday, December 31, 2014 8:59 amWednesday, December 31, 201449 Comments

Apple has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that it doesn’t inform users just how much storage…

A belief system: Hoping beyond hope for Apple to fail

Saturday, December 13, 2014 1:21 pm37 Comments

The Forbes clown circus is coming to town and driving the car is Bert Dohmen

Nokia re-enters consumer electronics with 7.9-inch iPad mini knockoff

Tuesday, November 18, 2014 12:54 pmTuesday, November 18, 201433 Comments

Just months after selling its ailing handsets business…

Fortune’s 2014 Businessperson of the Year: #1 Larry Page, #2 Tim Cook

Friday, November 14, 2014 10:03 amFriday, November 14, 201417 Comments

It has been a year of tumult — from volatile markets to viral outbreaks…

Ashton Kutcher, Lenovo ‘product engineer,’ doesn’t fear Apple’s iPad

Friday, October 10, 2014 7:14 pmFriday, October 10, 201481 Comments

I will be really surprised if Apple launches anything that approaches what we have here…

Some random moron named Paul Ausick: iPhone 6 pre-sales record ‘disappoints’

Monday, September 15, 2014 11:10 amMonday, September 15, 201439 Comments

Apple Inc. reported that the company had sold more than 4 million…

John Sculley: Apple could unveil the ‘holy grail’

Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:42 pmTuesday, September 9, 201410 Comments

Apple will likely unveil mobile payments on Tuesday…

‘Hello there’: Eight lessons from Microsoft’s awful job loss memo

Sunday, July 27, 2014 5:12 pmSunday, July 27, 201440 Comments

Barely 10 days old, Stephen Elop’s ‘Hello there’ memo has already become…

Analyst: Apple could be ‘obsolete’ in three years

Thursday, July 24, 2014 11:25 amThursday, July 24, 201480 Comments

Apple could be ‘obsolete’ in three years, due to increasing competition…

Microsoft’s idea of Think Different: A color-changing, mood-sensing robot butterfly

Monday, July 7, 2014 10:28 amMonday, July 7, 201420 Comments

In Microsoft’s great wisdom, they think that a robotic butterfly fluttering all about you…

Isaacson: Steve Jobs would have done Beats deal

Friday, May 30, 2014 11:13 amFriday, May 30, 20148 Comments

One of the rallying cries of those opposed to Apple’s…

Rumored Beats deal shows Apple has finally woken up to reality or something

Friday, May 9, 2014 3:58 pmFriday, May 9, 201430 Comments

Apple is just a consumer electronics company and has been so for quite a while now…

Apple needs gadgets, not financial gimmicks or something

Sunday, April 27, 2014 2:05 pmSunday, April 27, 201452 Comments

Apple was known as a technology-engineering powerhouse under Steve Jobs…

After a decade of innovation, Apple’s well has run dry or something

Thursday, April 24, 2014 5:01 pmThursday, April 24, 201460 Comments

Apple put on a great show for investors in its earnings report yesterday…

Review of Samsung Gear Fit stupidband: ‘The pinnacle of fitness failure’

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 3:30 pmWednesday, April 16, 201421 Comments

I’m honestly dumbfounded….

iWatch: Apple is not here to entertain you

Monday, April 14, 2014 11:28 amMonday, April 14, 201424 Comments

It’s easy — so very easy — to point at “analysts” like Trip Chowdhry and laugh…

Apple CEO Tim Cook can’t afford an iWatch flop or something

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 3:00 pmWednesday, April 9, 201424 Comments

With $160 billion in cash, there’s very little that tech giant Apple can’t afford…

Jon Rubinstein as Apple CEO?

Monday, April 7, 2014 11:00 amMonday, April 7, 201437 Comments

Apple does not have the capability to understand the competition or something…

Apple v. Samsung could quash smartphone access for minorities or something

Monday, March 31, 2014 3:00 pmMonday, March 31, 201427 Comments

The surge in the popularity of inexpensive but cutting-edge smartphones…

6 reasons why Apple’s iPhone 6 has already lost or something

Friday, March 14, 2014 3:03 pmFriday, March 14, 201471 Comments

The next iPhone will be a year late and a bitcoin short of the competition…

Why record iPhone sales might be rotten for Apple or something

Monday, September 23, 2013 3:30 pmMonday, September 23, 201351 Comments

This morning Apple announced a record-breaking weekend for sales…

Unlucky-Goldstar: Twenty hurt at LG event as promotional stunt goes wrong

Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:01 pmWednesday, August 14, 201329 Comments

LG has cancelled a series of events promoting the handset as a result…

Why Apple will repeat history and plunge into the abyss or something

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 4:26 pmTuesday, May 28, 201328 Comments

As we have seen earlier, Apple is accumulating record sales…

Bloomberg News poll: 71% say Apple has lost its cachet as an industry innovator

Monday, May 20, 2013 1:14 pm56 Comments

When Steve Jobs passed away in October 2011…

Enderle: Tim Cook is toast as Apple CEO

Monday, April 29, 2013 9:59 pmMonday, April 29, 201380 Comments

It was hard to listen to the second quarter financial report from Apple…

The New York Times cashes in on its naked ploy to ride Apple Inc. all the way to a Pulitzer Prize

Monday, April 15, 2013 10:13 pmTuesday, April 16, 201346 Comments

Ginning up some “news” = Pulitzer Prize in 2013…

How Siri could kill Apple or something

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:17 amTuesday, March 26, 201319 Comments

Siri could signal the beginning of the end for Apple…

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