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Apple Home Devices, Car Veteran DJ Novotney Exits for Top Rivian Auto Product Role
29Jan By adminNo Comments
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Apple Home Devices, Car Veteran DJ Novotney Exits for Top Rivian Auto Product Role

[ad_1] An Apple Inc. veteran who led work on home devices and helped start efforts to develop an electric vehicle is leaving for Rivian Automotive Inc., marking yet another senior departure for the iPhone maker, informed colleagues Friday of his exit, according to people with knowledge of the matter. He will become senior vice president of vehicle programs at Rivian, the maker of electric SUVs and pickup trucks, and report to Chief Executive Officer RJ Scaringe, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing unannounced matters. Novotney, who worked at Apple for nearly 25 years, was known as a senior lieutenant to many of the company's top hardware engineering executives. He was instrumental in the development of several generations of the iPod and iPhone, and was tapped by forme...
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Apple rises as BofA upgrades on potential from AI, headset
19Jan By adminNo Comments
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Apple rises as BofA upgrades on potential from AI, headset

[ad_1] Apple Inc. shares rose on Thursday, after Bank of America upgraded the iPhone maker to buy from neutral, a sign of confidence in the stock following a weak start to the year.The stock gained 3.3%, its biggest one-day percentage gain since May. It remains down 2% this year, making it one of the weakest performers among the so-called Magnificent 7 megacaps that fueled market gains in 2023. Artificial intelligence will be a driver for the company's hardware and services business, according to BofA analyst Wamsi Mohan, who wrote that he sees a “stronger multi-year iPhone upgrade cycle driven by need for the latest hardware to enable Generative AI features to be introduced in 2024/2025.” Mohan also thinks the upcoming launch of Apple's virtual reality headset has potential, writing th...
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Apple now requires a judge’s consent to hand over push notification data
14Dec By adminNo Comments
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Apple now requires a judge’s consent to hand over push notification data

[ad_1] Apple has said it now requires a judge's order to hand over information about its customers' push notification to law enforcement, putting the iPhone maker's policy in line with rival Google and raising the hurdle officials must clear to get app data about users.The new policy was not formally announced but appeared sometime over the past few days on Apple's publicly available law enforcement guidelines. It follows the revelation from Oregon Senator Ron Wyden that officials were requesting such data from Apple as well as from Google, the unit of Alphabet that makes the operating system for Android phones. Apps of all kinds rely on push notifications to alert smartphone users to incoming messages, breaking news, and other updates. These are the audible "dings" or visual indicators...
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Apple loses fight to thwart UK antitrust watchdog’s mobile probe
30Nov By adminNo Comments
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Apple loses fight to thwart UK antitrust watchdog’s mobile probe

[ad_1] Apple Inc. faces a revived full-blown probe into its dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming after London judges reversed a decision to block the investigation. The Competition and Markets Authority acted lawfully when it ordered a market investigation into the iPhone maker, judges at London's Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday. They said the antitrust tribunal's decision to overturn it would have had “serious consequences” for the UK agency's powers. The regulator was fighting against a Competition Appeal Tribunal decision in March that ordered a halt to its market investigation into the US firm's market power. Apple had argued that the CMA didn't follow procedural rules on timings, rendering the probe invalid. “We launched this investigation over a year ago in order to mak...
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iPhone Maker Hon Hai Plans $1.6 Billion in India Expansion Bid
28Nov By adminNo Comments
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iPhone Maker Hon Hai Plans $1.6 Billion in India Expansion Bid

[ad_1] IPhone maker Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. plans to expand its footprint in India with another NT$50 billion ($1.6 billion) investment for construction projects.The announcement, made in an exchange filing in Taiwan late Monday, didn't give any further details, saying only that the investment was for “operational needs.” A spokesperson for the company declined to say where the new facilities would be or what they would build.  The news comes as Hon Hai, also known as Foxconn, and other Taiwanese electronics manufacturers continue to diversify their businesses outside of China as tensions rise between Washington and Beijing. About half of Foxconn's revenue comes from business with Apple Inc. The company has been making iPhones and other products in India for several years, includ...
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Complaint Filed Against Mozilla for Refusing to Hire Apple Activist
24Nov By adminNo Comments
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Complaint Filed Against Mozilla for Refusing to Hire Apple Activist

[ad_1] The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint alleging Mozilla Corp. refused to hire a former Apple Inc. employee worker because of her past labor activism. The agency's prosecutors called on Mozilla to offer Cher Scarlett the position she applied for in 2021 or a similar role, and to otherwise make her whole for damages as a result of not being hired. Scarlett and her lawyer, Laurie Burgess, believe the case has the potential to defuse one of the most powerful factors chilling workplace activism in Silicon Valley: the fear of being blacklisted. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join When Scarlett began speaking up about labor issues at Apple, she knew she was at risk of losing her software engineering job, but was confident she could find another.Yet two years after her d...
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Apple asks Supreme Court to reverse app store ruling won by Epic
29Sep By adminNo Comments
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Apple asks Supreme Court to reverse app store ruling won by Epic

[ad_1] Apple Inc. said it has asked the US Supreme Court to review a judge's ruling from two years ago that could diminish the billions of dollars in revenue its App Store generates by letting app developers direct users to alternative payment methods.Apple's request to the high court on Thursday is its latest salvo in a drawn-out battle with Epic Games Inc. over how the iPhone maker runs its app marketplace. App Store revenue is lucrative for Apple, with developers charged a commission of as much as 30% for sales of digital goods and services — a fee that the maker of the popular Fortnite game is trying to avoid paying. At the same time, years of complaints from app developers and scrutiny from governments globally have already forced Apple to rewrite some of the rules protecting its d...
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Apple app-store ruling challenged at Supreme Court by Epic Games
28Sep By adminNo Comments
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Apple app-store ruling challenged at Supreme Court by Epic Games

[ad_1] Epic Games Inc. asked the US Supreme Court to review a judge's 2021 ruling that Apple Inc.'s App Store policies don't violate federal antitrust laws.Epic's request is the latest in a long-running battle between the maker of Fortnite and Apple over the way the iPhone maker runs its marketplace. Billions of dollars in revenue are at stake for Apple, which charges developers a commission of as much as 30% for digital goods and services sold through its App Store — a fee Epic is trying to get around paying for its games. The Supreme Court, per its regular schedule, could decide by the end of the year whether it will take up the case. In a decision issued two years ago following a trial, a federal judge in Oakland, California, largely rejected Epic's claims that Apple's online marketp...
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WWDC 2023: Apple to tweak iPhone autocorrect function
6Jun By adminNo Comments
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WWDC 2023: Apple to tweak iPhone autocorrect function

[ad_1] One of the most notable happenings at Apple's event for developers on Monday is likely the iPhone maker's tweak that will keep its autocorrect feature from annoyingly correcting one of the most common expletives to "ducking.""In those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, well, the keyboard will learn it, too," said Craig Federighi, Apple's software chief. The iPhone keyboard autocorrect feature has always had its quirks, sometimes taking a misspelled word while texting and substituting what it deems a logical option that ends up changing the meaning of a particular phrase or sentence. Such occurrences generally produce follow-up texts along the lines of "damn autocorrect!" But the "ducking" substitution is a long-standing source of mirth or frustration, depending o...
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Apple Is Dropping Industrial Design Chief Role in Post-Jony Ive Era
3Feb By adminNo Comments
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Apple Is Dropping Industrial Design Chief Role in Post-Jony Ive Era

[ad_1] Apple Inc. has decided against naming a new executive to replace its departing top product designer, marking a stark shift for a company long celebrated for the look and feel of its devices. The iPhone maker's vice president of industrial design, Evans Hankey, won't be replaced when she leaves the company in the coming months, according to people with knowledge of the decision, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment. Instead, the company's core group of about 20 industrial designers will report to Jeff Williams, Apple's chief operating officer. The company will also give larger roles to a group of Apple's longest-tenured designers. Hankey has reported to Williams since taking the ...
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