A few days after the Beeper Mini app launched a way for users to send blue-bubble iMessages directly from their Android iPhone knockoffs…
Tag: general idiocy
Apple’s VP of procurement, Tony Blevins, loses job over TikTok joke
A top Apple Inc. senior executive is leaving after he turned up in a TikTok video making an off-color joke that he…
Major Apple supplier TSMC is China’s trump card against U.S. and Taiwan
If strains between China and Taiwan continue to worsen, the Chinese Communist Party has a trump card: threatening to cut off the island’s…
Exactly how out of it do Joe and Jane Sixpack have to be to trust Google more than Apple with personal data?
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
I don’t have an Apple Watch yet, but…
6 reasons why Apple is still more doomed than you think
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’
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
Much ado about nothing…
Apple sued for ‘deceiving’ people about iPhone, iPad storage
Apple is facing a lawsuit over the amount of space…
Apple hit with class action lawsuit over storage consumed by iOS 8
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
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
Just months after selling its ailing handsets business…
Fortune’s 2014 Businessperson of the Year: #1 Larry Page, #2 Tim Cook
It has been a year of tumult — from volatile markets to viral outbreaks…
Ashton Kutcher, Lenovo ‘product engineer,’ doesn’t fear Apple’s iPad
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’
Apple Inc. reported that the company had sold more than 4 million…
John Sculley: Apple could unveil the ‘holy grail’
Apple will likely unveil mobile payments on Tuesday…
‘Hello there’: Eight lessons from Microsoft’s awful job loss memo
Barely 10 days old, Stephen Elop’s ‘Hello there’ memo has already become…
Analyst: Apple could be ‘obsolete’ in three years
Apple could be ‘obsolete’ in three years, due to increasing competition…
Microsoft’s idea of Think Different: A color-changing, mood-sensing robot butterfly
In Microsoft’s great wisdom, they think that a robotic butterfly fluttering all about you…
Isaacson: Steve Jobs would have done Beats deal
One of the rallying cries of those opposed to Apple’s…
Rumored Beats deal shows Apple has finally woken up to reality or something
Apple is just a consumer electronics company and has been so for quite a while now…
Apple needs gadgets, not financial gimmicks or something
Apple was known as a technology-engineering powerhouse under Steve Jobs…
After a decade of innovation, Apple’s well has run dry or something
Apple put on a great show for investors in its earnings report yesterday…
Review of Samsung Gear Fit stupidband: ‘The pinnacle of fitness failure’
I’m honestly dumbfounded….
iWatch: Apple is not here to entertain you
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
With $160 billion in cash, there’s very little that tech giant Apple can’t afford…
Jon Rubinstein as Apple CEO?
Apple does not have the capability to understand the competition or something…
Apple v. Samsung could quash smartphone access for minorities or something
The surge in the popularity of inexpensive but cutting-edge smartphones…
6 reasons why Apple’s iPhone 6 has already lost or something
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
This morning Apple announced a record-breaking weekend for sales…
Unlucky-Goldstar: Twenty hurt at LG event as promotional stunt goes wrong
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
As we have seen earlier, Apple is accumulating record sales…
Bloomberg News poll: 71% say Apple has lost its cachet as an industry innovator
When Steve Jobs passed away in October 2011…
