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The tournament, which will feature teams from around the world, will take place for the first time next summer, in the United States.
China has reportedly ordered Apple to remove WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram, among other popular messaging apps, from its iPhone app store in order to comply with the Chinese Communist Party's censorship demand.
The post TikTok’s Real Owners: China Orders Apple to Censor Popular Messaging Apps Including WhatsApp, Telegram appeared first on Breitbart.
A recently-opened Apple Store in Shanghai’s Jing’an district in March. Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads, which are owned by Meta, from its app store in China.
Siddharth Hariharoan tries to control a toy helicopter with his mind through the MindWave Mobile, a device by NeuroSky that reads brain waves.
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In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Pavel Durov, the founder of the popular messaging app Telegram, accused tech giants Google and Apple of being the real enemies of free speech on the internet.
The post Telegram Founder Tells Tucker Carlson that Google and Apple Are Threats to Free Speech appeared first on Breitbart.
One of the most valuable companies on Earth, tech giant Apple, has laid off more than 600 employees in California, signaling a shift in the company's priorities as it faces a multitude of challenges under the leadership of CEO Tim Cook. Many of the layoffs were related to the company's failed electric vehicle project, which was shut down in February.
The post Apple Lays Off 600 in Wake of Electric Vehicle Failure appeared first on Breitbart.
Apple is exploring the field of personal robotics as a potential new growth area following the cancellation of its electric vehicle project earlier this year.
The post Apple Moves into Home Robotics as Next Frontier After Car Project Fizzles appeared first on Breitbart.
With last week’s lawsuit, the Department of Justice has joined the chorus of voices that have risen in opposition to Apple’s poor treatment of users and developers. In its complaint, the DOJ accuses Apple of neutralizing “competitive threats by imposing a series of shapeshifting rules and restrictions in its App Store guidelines and developer agreements that [allow it] to extract higher fees, thwart innovation, offer a less secure or degraded user experience, and throttle competitive alternatives.”
In its response to the lawsuit, Apple fell back on the same argument it has used for more than a decade: that user privacy and security require the company to have total control over its ecosystem. This argument is unfounded. As policymakers, courts, and individual Apple users alike strive to counteract Big Tech’s anti-competitive tendencies, they should recognize that protecting user privacy and security is much more feasible than many corporations claim, and that openness, privacy, and security are not incompatible values.
All of the major tech companies have become restrictionist institutions. But Apple is the progenitor of the ecosystem lock-in business model. In the 1980s and 1990s, as Microsoft and Apple were competing for the burgeoning market for personal computers and operating systems (OS), Apple built a heavily centralized and controlled ecosystem. Microsoft went in the opposite direction and bet on openness, allowing third parties to easily build and deploy applications on their Windows OS.
When it introduced the iPhone in 2007, Apple made the decision to only allow users to download applications through an app store that it controlled. While such a closed ecosystem allowed Apple to tailor its user experience to be sleek and accessible, it also insulated the company from competition. Apple’s first-mover advantage as the inventor of the touchscreen smartphone, combined with the company’s cutthroat tactics, has given it a dominant market share in the United States and disproportionate capture of mobile market revenue, even as Google’s open source Android OS has usurped Apple globally. Apple’s closed nature has also protected it from facing the same legal and regulatory scrutiny that more open ecosystems such as Android have faced.
Third-party app developers—the people and companies that make all of the apps which make the iPhone so useful—protest that Apple’s app store policies are overly restrictive and opaque. Developers complain they are subjected to an unpredictable approval process, arbitrary changes to terms of service, minimal due process, and, in some instances, being locked out of the market by Apple’s default settings. Meanwhile, developers are also prevented from guiding users to purchase subscriptions or digital goods outside of the App Store.
These accusations are the impetus for the DOJ’s recent suit against Apple, but EU regulators were quicker to strike than the DOJ. Fully adopted in July of 2022, the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) is targeted squarely at large tech companies—dubbed “gatekeepers”—and the ways that they use their market position to create “imbalances in bargaining power” that result in “unfair practices and conditions” for business and users. Among a laundry list of requirements that includes bans of self-preferencing and data portability requirements, the DMA requires gatekeepers to allow third-party software to be downloaded—the very thing Apple has repeatedly claimed is impossible.
From Meta to Google to TikTok, none of the major tech companies are exempted from scrutiny and regulation as “gatekeepers” under the DMA. But Apple was especially targeted and has been dragged kicking and screaming into quasi-compliance with the DMA. The most significant change Apple has implemented to date came when the most recent software update allowed EU users to begin using third-party app stores and third-party payment processors.
In lobbying against the DMA, Tim Cook argued that opening up iOS “would not be in the best interest of users.” He even went so far as to claim that the company’s fight to maintain total control over its ecosystem is “one of the most essential battles of our time.” In its plans for DMA compliance, Apple warned that these changes would “open new avenues for malware, fraud and scams, illicit and harmful content, and other privacy and security threats.” Despite such strong language, the iOS ecosystem has not been destroyed by DMA-imposed openness. Europeans’ Apple devices remain private and secure.
One could argue that this is because Apple engineers, in the face of regulation, performed a miracle and secured their ecosystem in spite of its newfound openness. Yet, as Harvard professor and privacy and cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier observed in 2022, Apple’s “claims about risks to privacy and security are both false and disingenuous, and motivated by their own self interest and not the public interest.” There is not an inherent tradeoff between privacy, security, and openness. Both closed and open ecosystems are subject to cybersecurity vulnerabilities and openness can actually improve both privacy and security. The reality is far from the disastrous tradeoff that Apple has been asserting.
Apple itself clearly understands this. Internal documents from previous litigation show that the company once considered allowing third party software to be easily and freely downloaded but decided against it, not because it wanted to protect the privacy and security of its users, but because openness would cut into their bottom line. Nevertheless, Apple continues to rely on the bogeyman of privacy and security concerns because fear mongering is an effective political tactic.
In order to have a good-faith discussion about the merits of public policies, we must first be honest about what is within the art of the possible. In the face of a potentially existential lawsuit, and regardless of what has happened in the EU, Apple continues to argue that in order to “protect people’s privacy and security, and create a magical experience for our users” the company needs a closed ecosystem. As the U.S. moves forward with litigation and legislative proposals to promote openness, we should be wary of apocalyptic claims about privacy and security and understand that shifting the architecture of digital platforms is more possible than companies like Apple would have us believe.
The post Apple Should Not Be Exempt From the Antitrust Tomahawk appeared first on The American Conservative.
Journalists gathering at a court in Hong Kong to cover the trial of Jimmy Lai, the founder of Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping met with a group of visiting U.S. business leaders in Beijing on Wednesday, making a bid to lure much-needed foreign investment back into China’s flagging economy. Xi promised the economy would stabilize, and said overseas businessmen need not fear persecution by his authoritarian government.
The post Xi Jinping Hosts Personal Sit-Down with U.S. Business Leaders in Desperate Bid to Lift Chinese Economy appeared first on Breitbart.
A Denver family has filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming that the company's "Find My" location service led to a wrongful SWAT raid on their home, causing emotional distress and property damage.
The post Lawsuit: SWAT Raid on Innocent Family Caused by Apple’s ‘Find My’ Location Service appeared first on Breitbart.
The European Commission has initiated five non-compliance investigations to examine whether Apple, Google, and Mark Zuckerberg's Meta are adhering to the new Digital Markets Act (DMA) antitrust rules.
The post EU Launches Antitrust Investigations into Apple, Google, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta appeared first on Breitbart.
Lara Trump is releasing a single on Friday, titled "Anything is Possible," which she wrote and produced along with some industry heavy hitters.
The post Exclusive: Lara Trump Set to Release Single ‘Anything Is Possible’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Apple is in preliminary discussions with Chinese tech giant Baidu to potentially use its generative AI technology in Apple devices sold in China, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
The post Deal with the Devil: Apple in Discussions with China’s Baidu for iPhone AI appeared first on Breitbart.
A protest against the extradition law in Hong Kong in June 2019.
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Jimmy Lai at Apple Daily, the newspaper he founded, in 2020.
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