Facebook criticizes Apple over data privacy changes in iOS 14
Facebook posted full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Washington Post, blasting Apple for its upcoming iOS 14 operating system. The ads carried the headline, “We’re standing up to Apple for small businesses everywhere.”
The criticism is against Apple’s decisio... Read more
Apple brings privacy information for apps on all its app stores
Apple now requires developers to answer a questionnaire as part of submitting an app or update in app stores across iOS, macOS, iPad, tvOS, and watchOS. Cupertino is currently relying on trust between developers and the company to receive direct reports on their apps' permissions and actions.
Cu... Read more
‘Apple developing its own modems’
Apple appears to have started developing its own modems. With these modems, the company would no longer be dependent on parties such as Qualcomm or Intel for its network equipment.
Johny Srouji, the senior vice president of hardware at Apple, is said to have informed Apple's employees internally... Read more
Criteria to distinguish tech giants by EU leaked
The EU appears to have decided on the yardsticks by which it will distinguish tech giants who have to comply with stricter legislation. The yardsticks are based on the number of users and the areas in which companies operate.
With the criteria, the EU wants to distinguish large technology compan... Read more
Apple to remove apps that do not comply with new privacy feature
Apple threatens to remove apps from its App Store if developers do not ensure that they comply with an upcoming privacy feature that allows users to block advertisers from tracking them across apps.
The new feature is called the App Tracking Transparency and was going to go into effect this year... Read more
‘Apple working on processors with 16 to 32 cores’
Apple appears to be working on new processors for future computers with far more cores than the four found in the M1. The chips would be intended for more expensive MacBooks, iMacs and even the Mac Pro.
The rumours originate from Bloomberg, who appears to have an Apple roadmap in its hands. The ... Read more
iPhones hackable through WiFi due to severe vulnerability
A security researcher has managed to build an exploit for iPhones that works via their WiFi connections. This does not require any action on the part of the victim, and the victim won't realise that someone was trying to get into his phone.
The researcher Ian Beer explained the possibilities of ... Read more
Apple and Amazon declined for French initiative “Tech for Good Call”
Amazon and Apple have not signed up to the new French initiative to get global tech giants to comply with principles that include the fair payment of taxes while publicly acknowledging that fact. Government officials confirmed this refusal on Monday.
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has be... Read more
Apple fined 10 million euros over false waterproofing claims
The Italian antitrust watchdog has imposed a fine of 10 million euros for misleading consumers. It would not have been fair about the degree of waterproofing in several iPhones.
According to the watchdog, Apple falsely claimed that the phones are waterproof to a depth of four metres. Apple appar... Read more
Foxconn to shift some Apple production to Vietnam
The move aims to reduce the political risk of producing in China.
Apple has requested that its manufacturer Foxconn move some of its production to Vietnam. The move appears to be in response to the incipient trade war that is percolating between the US and China.
This is according to a perso... Read more