By news@appleinsider.com (Wesley Hilliard) The former materials lead at Apple has been sued by the company, with the complaint addressing alleged misappropriation of trade secrets that were then sold to an unnamed publication in exchange for favorable coverage of a startup.Lancaster revealed trade secrets about unreleased Apple productsThe leaks and rumors industry built around Apple can be a dangerous one. Simon Lancaster, former materials lead at Apple, has been accused of accessing data outside of his job’s scope then selling it to a media outlet….
By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Peterson) Smartphone shipments in China are experiencing a worse-than-seasonal decline despite starting 2021 off strong, according to investment bank JP Morgan.Credit: Andrew O’Hara, AppleInsiderIn a note to investors seen by AppleInsider, lead analyst Samik Chatterjee highlights new smartphone shipment disclosures for the month of February 2021 from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)….
By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Peterson) Security researchers have discovered what appears to be the first browser side-channel attack that’s Javascript-free, and Apple…
By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Peterson) Apple has launched a new section on its privacy webpage that lists all of the specific data collection practices and policies of the company’s first-party apps.Credit: AppleThe …
By news@appleinsider.com (Will Shanklin) Apple has agreed to allocate a portion of cash to investment adviser Sealus Asset Management, which will use the investment fees on a one-year rotational job program for women.Apple is partnering with Sealus Asset Management, who will use the fees for a women’s training programSealus is a women-owned investment advisor that handles more than $600 million in assets. It will …
By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Peterson) Apple is working on display technology that could bring a stereoscopic viewing experience to head-worn, mixed-reality devices like “…
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Developers worldwide say that parcel companies refuse to collect some Developer Transition Kits, but accept others, and at times demand their return from the wrong address.For a company that can time a million deliveries across the world, Apple is proving peculiarly poor at arranging collections. According to developers, their packaged-up Developer Transition Kits are being refused for not having shipping labels — or they are accepted anyway.Repeatedly, developers are saying that if their DTK was collected, they have no proof that it was. And that Apple’s instructions may include a collection date, but mostly suggest it will be sometime in the next couple of weeks….
