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Google and Apple announced a joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus, with user privacy and security central to the design. Since COVID-19 can be transmitted through close proximity to affected individuals, public health officials have identified contract tracing as a valuable tool to help
In very unwelcome news, Dark Sky has sold out to Apple, with the Android and Wear OS apps closing down on 1st July. As far as I'm concerned Dark Sky is the best hyper-local weather app: if I get a notification it's going to rain in 5 minutes, it's going to rain in 5 minutes. It is (was) perfect for
France's L'Autorité de la concurrence, which is the country's competition agency, has fined Apple 1.1 billion euros ($1.24 billion) for anticompetitive behavior. The French authority said that this penalty was the largest ever handed down in one case. “Apple and its wholesalers agreed not to compete and prevent distributors from competing with each other, thereby sterilizing the wholesale marker for
Tim Cook announced Apple's COVID-19 response to “the worldwide Apple family.” The purpose of the announcement was to provide an update about the ways Apple is doing its part “to protect the vulnerable, to study this virus, and to care for the sick.” Apple's committed donations to the global COVID-19 response – both to help treat those who are sick
Apple's Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook, has offered employees at many of the company's global offices the ability to work from home. According to Bloomberg News, he called the coronavirus outbreak an “unprecedented event” and a “challenging moment.” Cook told employees at several global offices to “please feel free to work remotely if your job allows” for the week of
A friend of my daughter called round the other day to proudly show off her brand new iPhone XR in yellow. As she pulled it from her bag, her face went from joy to shock, and when she turned the back of the phone towards me, I could see that it was smashed. She was totally gutted. With hindsight, it
The California Supreme Court has ruled that Apple Inc. violated California law when it failed to pay employees in Apple Stores for the time they spend waiting for mandatory bag and iPhone searches at the end of their shifts. The case is called Frlekin v. Apple Inc. It was filed as a class-action lawsuit against Apple by a group of