People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has named Apple “2023 Company of the Year” for dropping leather for “FineWoven” junk…
Tag: general stupidity
OpenAI staff near total mutiny, threaten to follow founder Sam Altman to Microsoft
Most of OpenAI’s employees have threatened to resign and follow ousted leader Sam Altman to Microsoft Corp. unless the current board resigns…
Apple’s pigtailed Asian employee photo triggers social media ‘outrage’
A photo of an Asian Apple Watch specialist sporting a “pigtail” on an Apple website has triggered selective outrage from some…
France’s Le Maire criticizes Apple’s ‘market dominance’ in EU
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire criticized the European marketplace dominance of foreign firms, including U.S. tech firm Apple’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…
Ugh: USB 3.2 is going to make the USB naming mess even worse
USB 3.2, which doubles the maximum speed of a USB connection to 20Gb/s, is likely to materialize…
Consumer Reports: iPhone Xs/Max have better battery life, improved cameras, and speedier performance
Sometimes it’s the little things that matter most, even when you’re talking about the biggest smartphone on the market…
Inside Consumer Reports: Controversies surrounding the MacBook Pro and HomePod
Having viewed their testing process and met with their team…
Magazine dedicated to comparing vacuum cleaners for geriatrics can’t hear Apple’s HomePod’s quality sound
I’ve got a few problems already with Consumer Reports claim that Apple’s new HomePod system sounds…
Beleaguered Tidal subscription music service running out of cash, may close next year
Lossless streaming music service Tidal is reported to be running out of cash..
Dvorak: Is iPhone X Apple’s Vista?
The first round of iPhone X reviews are out, and a number of them came from a strange place:…
Consumer Reports does it to Apple yet again
Consumer Reports magazine appears to have a blind spot towards Samsung…
How Amazon just royally shafted Apple or something
Sorry to rain on your parade Apple fanboys, but Amazon just totally stuck it to Apple…
Kanye West cuts ties with Tidal as Jay-Z’s latest album pops up on Apple Music
The same day that the Jay-Z album ‘4:44’ exits Tidal exclusivity, Kanye West, one of Tidal’s initial 16 artist-owners…
Sprint buys stake in Tidal Music Service
Mobile phone carrier Sprint is buying 33% of pop star Jay Z’s Tidal and will offer the service…
Consumer Reports now recommends the new MacBook Pro
Consumer Reports has now finished retesting the battery life on Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptops…
Consumer Reports’ deck-stacking, or incompetence, exposed
It all started when Consumer Reports reported wildly divergent battery life results, ranging from 3.75 hours up to 19 hours…
Consumer Reports’ weird MacBook Pro battery test results due to use of obscure Safari developer setting
Apple has just issued a software fix through its Beta Software Program to address an issue that arose…
Consumer Reports stands by its weird MacBook Pro battery test results
The high-end numbers seemed hard to believe, hitting almost double the battery-life claimed by Apple…
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…
What the heck is happening at Apple?
Apple, whether it admits so or not, has to live with the memory of Steve Jobs…
‘Which?’ magazine’s iPhone battery life comparison ‘test’ is fatally flawed
That’s the only logical discovery the organization made in a flawed-by-design smartphone battery life test…
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…
Carnegie Mellon Professor: Apple should consider breaking up it businesses
In order for Apple to stay in the game, it should consider breaking up its businesses…
Rumor: Apple’s 2016 iPhone will be dubbed the ‘iPhone 6SE’
Without a redesigned chassis, this year’s iPhone upgrade won’t earn the ‘iPhone 7’ moniker…
Walmart stock drops, analysts skeptical of convoluted Walmart Pay
Shares of Walmart are down in late afternoon trade after the company rolled out its new Walmart Pay…
Walmart rolls out convoluted Walmart Pay across U.S., continues to block Apple Pay
Today, Walmart announced that Walmart Pay, an antiquated and convoluted QR code-based way for Walmart shoppers…
What should Apple do next?
Apple reported its first fall in sales in 13 years on Tuesday…
New Apple leaks reveal iPhone’s biggest gamble
Looking through the current leaks around the next iPhone, there are a number of leaps…
UBS: Facebook’s ‘bots’ could erode Apple’s app economy
Is Apple in trouble with Facebook’s announcement yesterday of a platform for chat ‘bots’ that can respond…
Why I’m skeptical about Apple’s future
There is nothing earth shattering or compelling about Apple’s new phones — or any of the products it has released since 2007…
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 may miss Q1 and Q2 estimates due to older iPhone popularity
Apple’s older models of iPhones were more popular than they had been in past, somewhat eclipsing sales of the newer 6s and 6s Plus models…
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…
Why the next Apple Watch will be round, not square, or something
This week Pebble announced the launch of a new face in its smartwatch lineup…
Apple, enough with the stupid iPhone ‘S’ naming already
Hey Siri is just one of the major new features Cook announced last week in the new iPhones…
Rob Enderle: ‘Why the Apple Watch failed’
Apple Watch may be bound for the great Apple graveyard in the sky…
Shark Tank’s O’Leary: Apple Music is a ‘giant nothing burger’
This is not going to be material while I’m alive…
Nokia re-enters consumer electronics with 7.9-inch iPad mini knockoff
Just months after selling its ailing handsets business…
Apple’s 5.5-inch iPhone 6 reportedly to sell for up to $1300
While the rest of the world speculates about upcoming changes to Apple’s product line…
Apple, iOS 8 Health, and the Gordian Knot of convoluted healthcare bureaucracy
Appel faces defensive corporate culture, administrative ambivalence and incompetence, and government bureaucracy…
