The Spanish Organization of Consumers and Users has denounces Apple for the planned obsolescence of the iPhone6
25/05/2022The Spanish Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple for the planned obsolescence of their iPhone 6 and has agreed to pay the costs of the trial to the 400,000 affected in Spain. The OCU considers this planned obsolescence a deceptive commercial practice that violates consumer protection regulations and demands compensation for Spanish users for an amount that ranges between 99 and 189 euros. This figure comes from the sum of the amount of the battery (between 29 and 89 euros, depending on whether or not the replacement plan was accepted), plus 10% of the purchase price of the mobile (between 699 and 999 euros, depending on the model). According to the OCU lawsuit, Apple has acted fraudulently by hiding information from users, and considers that the technology company updated the software in the different models of the iPhone 6 to mask the performance problems of its batteries, knowing that this would cause a slowdown. and loss of phone performance. This practice, said OCU, conditioned consumers to renew their iPhones, causing them an economic loss that amounts to between 40 and 80 million euros, approximately. The complaint against Apple is one more action from the OCU to encourage affected users to fight against planned obsolescence.
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Apple reduces the manufacture of iPads in favor of the iPhone 13
05/11/2021The global shortage of semiconductors is growing and in light of this situation, Apple has announced that they will reduce its production of iPads to use the chips in the iPhone 13. Apple has also chosen to reduce the production of older iPhones. The strategy, they explain, is to focus on their newest product, the iPhone 13 that arrived to the market at the end of last September, and take advantage of the foreseeable pull, especially in western markets where the sales rate are already beginning to approach to the prepandemic stadium. In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Apple's chief financial officer, Luca Maestri, said that the losses generated by the shortage of chips have been millionaire and Apple has stopped earning 6.000 million dollars.
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Proton Mail improves email tracking protecti
02/12/2022Privacy continues to be one of the areas that concentrate most attention and efforts from IT companies and Protron Mail, Proton's end-to-end encrypted mail service, developed by CERN engineers, after learning about mass surveillance of US security agencies, has announced a new level of protection in this regard. Proton will reinforce the protections against the tracking of 'emails' with the aim of offering users a highly privacy service and neutralizing any gap that may have been opened since the creation of this service nearly a decade ago. Proton Mail guarantees their clients, an encryption system that no one except the sender and receiver can access the message. The new version, which will be included by default in iPhone and iPad, also implements new functions that will allow you to schedule the sending of messages, set reminders to answer important emails, and postpone emails that can wait. Proton is also working on the possibility of replying to messages without having to open the text composer and is also finalizing the details of a faster new version for Android
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Apple chooses March 8 to present their new products
07/03/2022Apple starts tomorrow, March 8, its 2022 presentation program. The company has advanced an invitation to "take a look at the performance" of its new products, and Bloomberg analyst Mark Gurman predicts that the event could host the presentation of the new iPhone SE. The first news placed this launch next April, but the fact that Apple will have this event tomorrow, suggests that the new iPhone SE will see the light before. This smartphone, explains Mark Gurman, will have support for 5G networks, a better camera and a better processor. In addition to this presentation, there is also speculation about a new iPad Air model, with a faster processor and 5G connectivity, and even a new Mac computer with the Apple Silicon processor.
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Apple wants to launch its own in-house 5G modems by 2023
17/05/20212023 is the date that most analysts estimate, as likely Apple does, to do the presentation of its first 5G modem. If the forecast comes true and Apple goes ahead with its own 5G modems manufacturing, Qualcomm, the current suppliers of the Snapdragon X55 modems for the iPhone 12 and Snapdragon X60 for the next iPhone 3, would be out of the equation, although the agreement they have signed until 2025 with Cupertino could lead to simultaneous Apple launches in the smartphone market with one or the other modem depending on the region of sale for a while. The development of Apple's 5G modems comes after the company bought the Intel division dedicated to these devices two years ago.
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