Hey, Siri, why are Apple sales falling?
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Friday, 12 April 2019 12:06

Hey, Siri, why are Apple sales falling?


Credit Suisse says iPhone sales will drop 12 percent

Beancounters at Credit Suisse have predicted an even darker year for the fruity cargo-cult Apple with iPhone sales expected to decline 12.4 percent this year after last year's 3.2 percent drop.

Apple gets Exodus spyware
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Tuesday, 09 April 2019 11:47

Apple gets Exodus spyware


Following Android again

When the surveillance tool dubbed "Exodus" started appearing on Android, the Tame Apple Press made a big thing about how its favourite operating was safe.

Apple turns to muppets to code
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Monday, 08 April 2019 12:24

Apple turns to muppets to code


Bought to you by the acronym “FFS.”

Apple is proving that it should be let nowhere near television programming by announcing a TV programme for kids where muppets program software.

Apple headhunts Google AI boffin
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Friday, 05 April 2019 12:01

Apple headhunts Google AI boffin


Needs more live brains

Fruity cargo cult Apple is desperate for new ideas and has hired one of Google's top minds in artificial intelligence to help out.

Apple wants users to spend $250 on new earbuds
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Just to drop the wire

Fruity-cargo cult Apple wants punters to splash out $250 on new Beats wireless earbuds.

Apple’s new iPad mini is a design and parts rehash
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Impossible to repair with more unpleasant sticky stuff than a John Holmes movie 

Apple’s design teams seem to be taking a little time off lately. According to iFixit, the new, fifth-generation iPad mini looks on the outside like a smaller version of the new iPad Air. But it's an updated iPad mini 4.

Apple finally going to give users slightly more viable batteries
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Moving from a lemon to a potato

For a while now Apple’s 2,658 mAh batteries have been a source of amusement to those who own real smartphones. Jobs’ Mob has thought that making the phone thinner was more important than a battery which offered more than a day’s worth of juice.

Apple lower prices in China again
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Tuesday, 02 April 2019 11:40

Apple lower prices in China again


Lower taxes

The fruity cargo cult Apple lowered prices for its products in China on Monday not as an admission that it was overpriced, but because a cut in the country’s value-added tax (VAT) rate came into effect.

Buffett doubtful about Apple content plan
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Still, it can afford to make a couple of mistakes

Financier Warren Buffett refused to give the thumbs up to  Apple's new suite of services.

Apple could easily bring in “right to repair”
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It just does not want too

Internal documents leaked to the tech press show that Apple is fully capable of implementing any right to repair legislation.