Apple’s iPad Air launch met with low reparability score
A look throughout the iPad Air Apple’s iPad Air, which launches on Friday, won’t be easy for Dyers to take apart. Fixit on Thursday revealed its legitimate iPad Air teardown, inspecting the instrument’s inner components and determining how simple it is to take apart and repair. The corporate, who tears down a big selection of technology products, gave the iPad Air a reparability score of simply 2 out of 10,...
Apple supplier Pegatron accused of labor abuses
A labor rights group Monday accused a chinese company that makes iPhones for Apple Inc. of abuses including withholding workers’ pay and extreme working hours. China Labor Watch stated it discovered violations of the legislation and of Apple’s pledges about working stipulations at factories operated by using Pegatron Corp., a Taiwanese firm. Conditions in chinese factories that produce iPhones and different standard Apple...
Apple wobbles in China as rivals offer more, for less
A pointy drop in Apple Inc’s China earnings in April-June underscores the challenges it faces in its 2d-biggest market as the know-how hole with cheaper native rivals narrows and as Samsung Electronics keeps up a gentle stream of latest models throughout all value degrees. While traders marked up Apple shares as the corporate bought more of its iPhones than anticipated, the inventory rally may prove short-lived as demand for its...
Samsung overtakes Apple to become world’s most profitable smartphone maker
The global smartphone market showed wholesome boom in the 2d quarter, but Apple’s iPhone was squeezed via competitors from Samsung and different Asian manufacturers, surveys showed Friday. Apple’s share of the worldwide smartphone market fell to 13.1 % within the April-June length, in line with analysis agency IDC. A separate report by strategy Analytics gave Apple thirteen.6 p.c, but mentioned that it was once the united...
Apple said to be working on ad-skipping tech for TV
There’s new gasoline for the fireplace that Apple’s working on know-how for an up to date tv set-high box or television platform. Citing unnamed sources, tech writer Jessica Lessin (formerly of The Wall side road Journal), saysApple’s been meeting with cable firms to pitch a service that might allow television viewers to skip commercials. That characteristic would be labored into a “top class”...
