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Inside Apple’s revolutionary, and rather amazing, A13 Bionic chip
Apple’s new [A13 Bionic] chip contains 8.5 billion transistors. Also, there are six CPU cores: Two high-performance cores and four efficiency cores…
Apple’s Greg Joswiak dismisses planned obsolescence as ‘craziest thinking in the world’
Announced during the WWDC keynote, was the feature that iOS 12 more quickly ramps up peak performance…
Batterygate: Apple offers $50 refund for iPhone batteries replaced in 2017
Apple Inc. will give a partial refund to some customers who paid full price for iPhone battery replacements…
Apple facing complaints over its iPhone battery-replacement pledge
At the end of last year, Apple admitted to slowing down older iPhones to preserve battery life…
Batterygate: Israeli agency investigating Apple over handling of iPhone slowdown
Israel’s consumer protection bureau said on Tuesday it was investigating Apple over a failure to disclose…
Batterygate: Dozens of iPhone throttling lawsuits filed against Apple look set for consolidation
A Canadian law firm has filed another class action lawsuit against Apple for secretly throttling performance on iPhones…
Apple now faces more than 60 class action lawsuits over iPhone batterygate
Apple’s legal battle against accusations that it intentionally slows down older iPhones…
Getting a new iPhone battery is often a frustrating, weeks-long process
Some people across the country are reporting that they’re having a tough time getting…
Apple’s iOS 11.3 confirmed to restore original performance on older iPhones with aged batteries
According to some benchmarks did by iHelpBR editor Filipe Espósito on an iPhone 6 Plus…
How to turn off Apple’s iPhone throttling in iOS 11.3
Apple’s iOS 11.3 Beta has added the ability for you to disable a feature that throttles…
Apple sees ‘strong demand’ for replacement iPhone batteries
Apple Inc has seen ‘strong demand’ for replacement iPhone batteries and may offer rebates…
How will new iPhones manage power? Apple’s response to U.S. Senator raises questions
In early January, Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee…
Apple tells U.S. Senate company may offer rebates for battery purchases amid iPhone blowback
Apple Inc., responding to U.S. Senate questions about its decision to slow performance on older iPhones…
Apple and Samsung both under investigation by the Italian government over ‘planned obsolescence’
Italy’s antitrust organization has launched two separate investigations against Apple…
China consumer group seeks answers from Apple over batterygate
A Chinese consumer group has asked Apple for information about the slowing of older iPhones…
South Korean consumer group considering criminal case against Apple over iPhone batterygate
A consumer group filing a civil suit against Apple on behalf of over 100 plaintiffs for damages…
Republican Senator John Thune, Chair of the U.S. Commerce Committee, has some questions for Apple over throttling old iPhones
The chairman of the U.S. Senate’s commerce committee wants Apple to lift the veil on its once-secret slowdown…
How to easily check to see if Apple is throttling your iPhone
Apple has been beyond deceitful for all this time and the company now faces more than a dozen lawsuits as a result…
Class action lawsuits against Apple over iPhone throttling now number 30
The total number of class action lawsuits against Apple for deliberately slowing older iPhones…
Republican U.S. Senator wants Apple to answer questions about slowing iPhones
The chairman of a U.S. Senate committee overseeing business issues asked Apple Inc to answer questions…
Can Apple profit from their self-inflicted batterygate debacle?
Apple Inc.’s recent admission that it secretly slowed down older iPhones with aging batteries…
French prosecutor launches probe into Apple planned obsolescence
A French prosecutor has launched a preliminary investigation of U.S. tech giant Apple…
Apple’s design decisions and iPhone batteries
Shorter battery life – Making phones and notebooks as thin as possible and then making them even thinner…
Apple now faces over two dozen lawsuits for ‘purposefully’ or ‘secretly’ slowing down older iPhones
Apple now faces over two dozen lawsuits around the world…
Competing with Apple’s iPhone specs is more difficult than it seems
It’s a common fallacy, convenient to Apple, to think that the iPhone maker doesn’t care about specs…
Apple’s A10 CPU is a beast; iPhone 7 Plus benchmark appears online
We only have a couple of days to wait until Apple officially launches its new phones…
Microsoft finally realizes that Steve Jobs was right all along
For the majority of Microsoft’s existence, they have been an OS company that provides…
The whole widget: Apple’s real advantage from owning the hardware and software
The biggest benefit of owning the hardware and OS-level software isn’t performance…
Benchmarks show Apple’s new 12-inch MacBook is amazingly fast
At this point, no PC comes to matching the new MacBook’s performance with a 1.2 GHz M-5Y71 processor…
Jony Ive is a redwood
Everyone talks about quality. Everyone talks about delighting customers…
NVIDIA Tegra X1 benchmarks put Apple’s A8X on notice
Apple, the only smartphone maker who’s not saddled with off-the-shelf processors and an off-the-shelf operating system…
Apple Watch: The hidden advantages
As Apple prepares to unleash Apple Watch…
Frictionless fruit: Apple offers users unmatched convenience
What Apple’s boss, Tim Cook, presented on June 2nd, at the company’s annual conference…
Japan’s Renesas to sell iPhone display chip business to Synaptics, not Apple, sources say
Renesas Electronics Corp plans to sell its majority stake in a maker of iPhone display chips…
Apple looks to integrate display chip design; puts overseas cash to work
The world’s leading manufacturer of drivers and controllers for small- and mid-sized LCD displays…
Apple and Renesas: The economics of what Apple is doing with their mountain or cash
Apple does, as we know, have a vast cash pile…
Lego shares a key quality with Apple – one that more companies should emulate
The startling success of The Lego Movie…
Apple will vastly outlive the competition
Apple is fundamentally different than the competition…
Apple’s Jonathan Ive and Craig Federighi: The complete Businessweek interview
Federighi asked me if I had used Apple products and for how long…
Why Apple is planning aggressive 2014 launch for ‘iOS in the Car’
When iOS in the Car was introduced at this summer’s Worldwide Developer Conference…
Jean-Louis Gassée: Enormous differences between Apple’s 1997 and Microsoft’s 2013 reorganizations
There are enormous differences between the scorched-earth reorganization of Apple in 1997…
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