Mrs. Ahrendts is leaving the company after five years on her post, during which she has, by the way, made more money than the CEO Tim Cook himself. After leaving, which will complete in April, her goal is to ”pursue new personal as well as carrier goals”. The new vice president will become Deidre O’Brien, ex-chief of HR. Tweet Vote on HN ...

According to Tech Crunch specialists, some of the apps available on the App Store take both screen pictures as well as button usage data without the knowledge of their users. The guilty apps are the ones that use analytical tools made by the Glassbox company. Those tools put special programming code into the infected app that then infects the smartphone the app is installed on; it then sends data it gathers back to the app’s publisher. Not only are these informations collected illegally, as the companies using Glassbox do not inform their users about it in the user’s agreement ...

Namely, they complain that it is too easy to accidentally turn the blasted thing on when in the lock screen. According to USA Today:”If you’ve ever discovered that the flashlight on your iPhone was suspiciously turned on after pulling the device from your pocket, you are far from alone.Some people have been alerted by strangers on the street that the mini searchlight on their phone is beaming for the world to see. Others report having looked down to discover the flashbulb shining through their clothing.Either way, no one is ever thrilled to find out that their expensive ...

According to the research performed by the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, iPhone XR was the best selling phone of the last quarter of 2018 in the US. The number of iPhone 8 equals that of iPhones 8 and 8 Plus combined, and iPhone XR counted for 39% of all Apple smartphones sold in that time. Unfortunately (or fortunately), things are not as great in China: During the whole 2018 Apple has managed to sell only 34.2 million units of their devices there, 2.5 million less than two years ago. Apple has lost its position of the 2nd favourite Chinese smartphone brand to Xiaomi; as for ...

The leak originates from the invaluable @OnLeaks, with Ice Universe confirming its authenticity. The smartphone’s design is somewhat controversial, to put it lightly, among the fans online, as a great number of people seemingly dislike the triple camera module. I have to admit that it does not look great; functionality is important, yes, but smartphones nowadays, especially those made by companies such as Apple, also need to be pleasing to look at. Apple is reportedly already working on a new Smart Battery Case made specifically with iPhone XI and its ”protrusion” in ...

Some time ago Qualcomm has sued Apple for illegally using its patented energy conservation tech in its iPhone 7 and 8 smartphones. Recently, German courts have ruled in favour of the plaintiff: it was court’s decision that Apple remove the aforementioned smartphones from its German stores. For now, iPhone 7 and 8 can still be bought at Apple’s partner stores, but this may soon change as well. iPhones X and newer can still be bought in Germany, as they are not using Qualcomm’s patented technology.Apple can still make an ...

A new day, a new smartphone fire. This time a little tragedy has struck an iPhone Xs Max and its owner, one Josh Hillard, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Hillard has reportedly been carrying his smartphone in his pocket when he suddenly felt an unpleasant scent coming out of it. He removed the quickly overheating device, which soon erupted into flames and burned down. Hillard took the phone to the Apple service place, but decided against sending it to Windows for analysis. The reason may or may not be shame; it is easy to imagine that Hollard kept the phone in his pocket for lenghty times every day, ...

A few years ago, back in the ancient days of 2011, a young man called Xiao Wang really, really wanted to get an iPhone 4. He has found the phone to be a status symbol, a luxury item, something that one had to have in order to ”be someone”. Sadly, the boy, or rather his parents, have not had the money to spend on such frivolities. Desperated and needy, the boy took drastic measures; he sold his kidney. Selling his body part earned him 3200 dollars, enough to buy the smartphone that he wanted. Wang did not worry about losing the kidney – after all, people can live with only ...

iPhone XR is available in the US for around two months now, and it has been a busy little bee – well, at least as busy as a smartphone can be when it is being bought. As it turns out, only in the first month of its availability, November, have this device made up almost a third of all the iPhones sold in the US of A. This made iPhone XR the most popular choice of the American end of 2018, with iPhones XS and XS Max only managing to combine into 35% of sales together. iPhones 8 and 8 Plus, on the other hand, have still sold better, reaching 39% of the market two months after ...

Okay, okay, we all know that mobile devices are not the most durable items out there, but come on… A large number of new iPad Pro owners have opened their boxes only to find out that their iPads are slightly bent right in the middle. This is not part of their designs – the devices are clearly bent in a way they were not supposed to be. When asked to comment on the issue, Apple released a pretty cold statement in which it said that this is normal, a reaction of the aluminium case to the device’s cooling system, and besides it is almost unnoticeable, so why do you care. Hmm. ...