Xiaomi releases iWatch killer
Looks the same, lasts long and costs only $185
Xiaomi, which competes with Apple for the top position in the wearable market, today made the competition a little more interesting. The Chinese electronics giant has launched its first smartwatch called the Mi Watch that looks strikingly similar to the Apple Watch in its home market.
Apple tries to avoid Chinese tariffs
We don't think Apple fanboys should be paying
Apple is thinking different and believes that it should not be paying tariffs as part of the US's trade war with China.
Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion
Will take on Apple and Samsung
Google has written a $2.1 billion cheque to buy exercise outfit Fitbit as part of a cunning plan to take on Apple and Samsung in the crowded market for fitness trackers and smartwatches.
iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 unlucky for users
Software angers fanboys
Dedicated followers of the fruity apple cargo cult are incandescent with rage over the new iOS 13 and iPadOS 13.
AirPods are unfixable
Expensive throwaways
iFixit's teardown of Apple's latest AirPods reveals just how difficult it will be to fix them if they break.
Apple's software deleted 20 million app ratings
Your success deleted
A bug wonderful feature in Apple's App Store removed more than 20 million ratings from apps.
Apple Pay under investigation by antitrust regulators
Ordered online sales companies to use its services
Fruity cargo cult, and convicted monopolist, Apple, is being investigated yet again over antitrust allegations.
Apple’s documentation is missing
A developer has even looked at the back of the sofa but there was nothing
Developer Chris Krycho has attracted a fair bit of attention for pointing out that parts of Apple’s software documentation is non-existent.
Why Apple software is so buggy
Former software engineer explains what is going wrong
David Shayer, who worked as a software engineer at Apple for 18 years across iPod, the Apple Watch, and Apple's bug-tracking system Radar, among other projects, has been explaining to Apple fanboys why software standards have shot down the loo.
Apple prices are silly, but Motorola says "hold my beer"
Bound to Razr an eyebrow or two
While most people think that Apple's move to jack up the price of handsets backfired, it seems that Motorola didn't get the memo and is making the price tag of its Razr even more stupid.