A single issue dominated most headlines this week: Apple’s defiance of an FBI request to help unlock an iPhone linked to San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. More news did emerge, however, on Apple’s legal battles with Samsung, and possible plans for OS X and a new 4-inch iPhone.
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According to a court filing prepared by Apple, the company first received — and responded to — FBI requests for information related to last year’s deadly shootings in San Bernardino, Calif., just three days after the attack.
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A new report from KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple’s widely rumored next-generation 4-inch iPhone is about to enter mass production and is estimated to 12 million units in 2016.
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Apple lawyer Ted Olson, who some view as one of the most prominent practicing attorneys in the U.S., on Friday said the government appears to be on the path to “limitless” power in its court battle with Apple.
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Apple is inching toward a launch of major additions to its iOS in Education program first previewed in iOS 9.3 beta, the most recent change being this week’s beta activation of the forthcoming Apple School Manager Web hub.
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The work-issued iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist attack likely has “nothing of any value” saved on it, the sheriff of the town has admitted in a new interview, though he still believes Apple should help the FBI crack into the encrypted handset.
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Sharp and Apple’s main manufacturing partner, Foxconn, have reportedly agreed to extend the deadline for takeover talks by another one to two weeks, following the latter’s discovery of undisclosed Sharp liabilities.
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Apple is hiring Frederic Jacobs — a developer responsible for the secure chat app Signal — to work on the CoreOS security team this summer, a report noted on Friday.
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Apple’s board of directors were unanimously reelected to their positions at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Friday, while shareholder proposals on a variety of issues, including a mandate on diversity, were rejected.
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Samsung saw a major victory in its ongoing patent infringement litigation with Apple, as a U.S. appeals court overturned a $120 million decision against the South Korean electronics maker.
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