People with certain older generations of Apple iPhones, iPads, and iPods should install a new security update, said the California-based tech giant. In a recent notice, Apple Inc. noted that a security vulnerability was recently discovered via Google’s Threat Analysis Group. Because of the flaw, it’s possible that users with older-generation Apple devices that use iOS…

Commentary China has supposedly been good to Apple. A compliant workforce. Cheap wages. A mass market and unified regulatory structure. All fueled Apple’s explosive profits. Approximately 16 percent of smartphone shipments in China, the world’s biggest market for the technology, are iPhones. So when Beijing says jump, Apple jumps. The company is now limiting its…

It is a humbling thing to realize, in this age of information, that our human brain still remains such an enigma. As we spend millions on developing ever more sophisticated supercomputers and expend enormous amounts of energy powering our devices, the ever-handy, efficient, and affordable human brain outperforms our top technology in a litany of…

Violent protests erupt at the world’s biggest iPhone factory. Chinese workers are smashing windows and facing off against police officers. A Taiwanese colonel has been charged for taking bribes from China, promising to surrender in the event of war with Beijing. The first overseas Space Force unit activates. It’s based in the Indo-Pacific region, a…

Amid economic and policy uncertainty in China, the bulk of Apple’s manufacturing is shifting to India. Many suppliers in Apple’s Chinese supply chain have either stopped recruiting or are laying off workers, while Apple’s contract manufacturers in India are furiously hiring. In Shanghai, Pegatron, the second-largest contract manufacturer of Apple in China (after Foxconn) and…

The Chinese regime is recruiting retired soldiers and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members to work at an Apple iPhone assembly factory in Henan Province after a large number of employees fled a couple of weeks ago due to the strict “zero-COVID” measures. Some China observers are skeptical about the untrained manpower on the production line…

Everybody has said something they later regret saying. If the person you’re talking to is right there in front of you, there’s nothing you can do to unsay it. As country singer Jon Langston says in one of his songs, “I can’t take back words.” But according to tech guru Kim Komando, the new iOS 16…

Apple warned that COVID-19 lockdowns in China are “significantly” impacting its iPhone supply chain. “COVID-19 restrictions have temporarily impacted the primary iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max assembly facility located in Zhengzhou, China,” the company said in a statement on Sunday. “The facility is currently operating at significantly reduced capacity.” The factory makes…

BEIJING—Access to an industrial zone in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou was suspended Wednesday after the city reported 64 coronavirus cases and workers who assemble Apple Inc. iPhones left their factory in the zone following outbreaks. The announcement did not say whether the isolation of the Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone was related to cases…

Apple Inc. is cutting back production of iPhone 14 Plus and is increasing the output of the more expensive iPhone 14 Pro due to lukewarm demand for the mid-range model, market research firm TrendForce said Tuesday. The share of more expensive iPhone 14 Pro series has increased to 60 percent of the total output from…