The popular Weather Channel app is being sued by the city of Los Angeles for allegedly covertly mining private data of its 45 million monthly users and selling it to third-party advertisers.
The New York Times takes a fascinating look at Apple’s domestic ill-fated factories that it was running back in the 1980s, and why they failed and prompted the company to outsource most of the manufacturing jobs to China.
Apple requires apps to justify collecting location details via popups but they never mention advertising or data sale, only features like getting “estimated travel times”.
A rare peek into Apple’s curation team details how they hired and trained real human journalists and editors to nuke fake news and clickbait out of orbit.
In a New York Times article titled “Apple Goes to Hollywood. Will Its Story Have a Happy Ending?”, author John Koblin alleges that Apple’s new original video programming offering may roll out as early as March 2019.
Apple is probably years away from commercializing its disruptive blood sugar reader for Apple Watch.
Sources briefed on the matter told the paper that Apple’s premium OLED handset will be priced at around $999 for the entry-level model (likely to come with 64 gigabytes of onboard flash storage, or twice than the base iPhone 7 model).
Project Titan’s reduced scale is now focused on PAIL, a shuttle service designed to transport Apple’s employees between corporate buildings in Silicon Valley.
Apple removed news apps created by The New York Times from the App Store in China late last month. The Times itself says that it spoke with the iPhone-maker, and it was told that the removal was in response to a request from Chinese authorities.
The Chinese government began blocking NYT websites in 2012, following a series of articles on the wealth amassed by the family of then-prime minister Wen Jiabao. This latest move limits access to one of its few remaining channels in the country.
Most of the iPhone models Apple develops, markets and sells are being assembled by Foxconn, the world’s leading contract manufacturer. In a new investigative piece, The New York Times newspaper delves into the inner workings of Foxconn’s iPhone manufacturing plant in Zhengzhou, a city of six million people in an impoverished region of China.
Fun fact: the world’s biggest iPhone factory, referred to as “iPhone City” by the locals, is capable of churning out half a million iPhones per day at peak.
Apple reportedly asked contract manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron to look into assembling iPhones in the United States and now we learn that Tim Cook phoned President-elect Donald Trump following his victory to talk about U.S. manufacturing.
In an interview with The New York Times, Trump reveals he’s promised tax incentives to Apple to build its products domestically rather than outsource component production and assembly work to Taiwanese and Chinese suppliers and contract manufacturers.
Released in March of 2014, The New York Times’ news curation app, NYT Now, is scheduled to shut down on August 29, the newspaper announced in a blog post.
The app debuted as a more affordable alternative to the paper’s digital subscriptions, offering premium content for as low as $8 per month. It was regularly updated and at one point even gained features like 1Password integration.
