Apple Pay with Visa has huge security hole
Published in News
Friday, 01 October 2021 13:11

Apple Pay with Visa has huge security hole


No authentication needed

Researchers have demonstrated that someone could use a stolen, unlocked iPhone to pay for thousands of dollars of goods or services, no authentication needed.

Apple snubs blind people
Published in News
Friday, 01 October 2021 12:47

Apple snubs blind people


It is not as if they can see how beautiful the product is

Fruity cargo cult Apple has changed some functions on Siri which were relied on by blind people, which make the phone pretty much useless to them.

Google moans that the EU is giving Apple a free pass
Published in Mobiles


Asks it to give it a get out of jail free card


Google blasted EU antitrust regulators for ignoring rival Apple as it launched a bid to get Europe's second highest court to annul a record 4.34-billion euro fine related to its Android operating system.

Apple’s Lightning port is about making cash
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 28 September 2021 11:52

Apple’s Lightning port is about making cash


Tame Apple Press is now defending the indefensible 


The Tame Apple press has its knickers in a twist over the EU daring to tell its favourite phone company to replace the Lightning port with USB-C cables.

Apple ignored three zero-day vulnerabilities for months
Published in News


Finder just showed them to the world


After the fruity cargo-cult Apple ignored three zero day security flaws, for ages a security researcher has published details about them to force it to do something.

Leaked email shows that Cook is cracking down on leakers
Published in News


Release the hounds - there shall be no leaking here

Apple CEO Tim Cook has warned employees about leaking company information and says he is cracking down on leakers.  Unfortunately his email was leaked and provided much mirth to the non-Apple press.  

Apple trains drones to hard sell its overpriced repairs  
Published in PC Hardware


Undermines competition

The fruity cargo cult Apple has been caught training repair staff how to  undermine third party companies and talk customers into buying more expensive first party repairs.

Apple faces another charge of employee hassling
Published in News


Jobs’ Mob’s war on women and transparency

The fruity cargo cult appears to have dumped its “right on” image in favour of something a little more misogynistic.  

Apple is getting lazy
Published in IoT
Wednesday, 15 September 2021 12:08

Apple is getting lazy


Hubris on the watch front

It seems that the fruity cargo cult Apple does not have to innovate its watches much any more, presumably because it believes people will buy them anyway.

The iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max are new Apple flagships
Published in Mobiles


Faster chipset, 120Hz screens, better cameras, and more

During its California Streaming event, Apple has unveiled its next-generation iPhone 13 series flagship phones, the iPhone 13 Pro and the iPhone 13 Pro Max, with high refresh-rate displays, a better camera system, the new A15 Bionic hipset, and more.