SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Apple Lays Off Over 600 Workers Apple laid off 614 workers in Santa Clara; police in Fremont nabbed an arson suspect for setting small fires in Fremont and Newark; and there was a 4.7M earthquake in New York City this morning.
Arts & Entertainment Jon Stewart Says He Parted Ways With Apple Because They Wouldn't Let Him Talk About AI, or China, or Talk to the FTC Comedian Jon Stewart tore into his former employer on 'The Daily Show' Monday evening, suggesting that he severed his professional relationship with Apple over instances in which they instructed him to avoid certain subjects.
Business & Tech Apple Hit With Sweeping Antitrust Lawsuit From Justice Department and 16 States Over iPhone Monopoly After years of scrutiny by regulators and rumblings from states' attorneys general, and following similar prosecutions against Google and other major tech players, Apple was hit with a sweeping lawsuit Thursday accusing it of creating a monopoly around its popular smartphones.
Business & Tech Apple Slapped With $2 Billion Fine In EU Over Alleged Anti-Competitive Apple Music Practices Regulators in the European Union have hit Apple with a $2 billion fine (actually 1.8 billion euros) over allegations that Apple Music has been muscling out other streaming music platforms like Spotify in the App Store.
Arts & Entertainment Apple Cancels 'Schmigadoon' After Two Seasons, Fans Revolt on Social Media Musical Theater Twitter and Gay Twitter and Tituss Burgess Twitter are collectively enraged that Apple TV+ would dare cancel the most brilliant sendup of musicals since Forbidden Broadway.
Business & Tech Apple's Legal Woes Over Apple Watch Oxygen Monitor Leads to Device Removal From US Shelves, Biden Declines to Help The newest models of the Apple Watch have been pulled from shelves across the U.S. due to an ongoing patent-infringement legal battle with the maker of blood-oxygen monitoring technology.
Business & Tech Jon Stewart Is Leaving His AppleTV+ Show, May Be Butting Heads With Apple Over China Coverage There’s a problem with ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart,’ which won’t be returning for a third season because of its handling of controversial topics, and there's industry speculation that Apple doesn’t want Stewart angering the Chinese market.
Business & Tech Apple Unveils One Very Expensive and Slick AR/VR Headset, the Vision Pro, On Sale Next Year At the annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook got to do one of those famous "One more thing..." product drops, this time with Apple's biggest new piece of hardware since the Apple Watch.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area-Set Jennifer Garner Show 'The Last Thing He Told Me' Is Oddly Obsessed With Local Food Jennifer Garner's new show premiered Friday on Apple TV+, and it's based on the 2021 mystery-thriller novel by Laura Dave, 'The Last Thing He Told Me,' and set in Sausalito, San Francisco, and Texas.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Declares ‘War’ on Apple, In Tweets Clearly Marked as Being Sent From ‘Twitter for iPhone’ Apple is the biggest advertiser on Twitter, but Elon Musk is picking an attention-seeking public feud with Apple, though all of Musk’s tweets on the topic are plainly labeled as being sent from an iPhone.
Business & Tech AG Rob Bonta Calls On Apple to Shore Up Privacy on Reproductive-Related Data After Vice managed to buy the location data of people who visited 600 Planned Parenthood clinics (for a mere $160!), California AG Rob Bonta is urging Apple to better protect users’ private information in App Store third-party apps.
Business & Tech Apple Urges iPhone, iPad Users to Update Devices Immediately, Hackers Could ‘Take Control’ of Device A newly discovered security exploit is already taking over iPhones, iPads, and other Apple devices in the wild, and Apple people should drop everything and get the latest software update.
Business & Tech Top FCC Commissioner Demands Apple and Google Yank TikTok From Their App Stores A leading FCC commissioner calls Chinese-owed TikTok an “unacceptable national security risk” and is ordering both Google and Apple to remove it from their app stores, and the clock is ticking on his July 8 deadline.
Business & Tech You're Finally Going to Be Able to Unsend and Edit Sent Texts on the iPhone Apple announced some software updates Monday as part of its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, which include the *gamechanging* new ability to edit and unsend texts in Messages after you've sent them.
Business & Tech Some Apple Employees Once Again Whining About Being Called Back to the Office Three Days Per Week A group of Apple employees are yet again making noise about their displeasure with being called back to an in-person office three days per week — the horror!
Business & Tech Apple and Facebook Both Duped By Hackers Posing as Law Enforcement, Handed Over Personal Data Phone numbers, home addresses, and (yikes!) internet browsing histories have been handed right over to hackers who approached tech companies while posing as police, and what’s more, most of the hackers were teenagers.
Business & Tech Tim Cook's Stalker From Virginia Agrees to 3-Year Stay-Away Order The story of a possibly armed and disturbed stalker who had driven across the country to be close to Apple CEO Tim Cook, and who claimed that Cook was the father of her children, has led to a day in court in San Jose.
Business & Tech Apple Services Go Kablooey in Giant Monday Morning Outage Your Apple Maps, App Store, iCloud Mail and auxiliary Apple services galore may have hit the skids for a few hours Monday morning, and while the temporary outage was international, most everything is back up and running.
Business & Tech Apple Says It Has 'Paused' Product Sales In Russia, But Resellers Are Still At It Apple has "paused" the sale of its products in Russia in protest of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and Apple Pay has been disabled or "limited" in the country as well.
Business & Tech Stalker Obsessed With Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Apparently Roaming the South Bay A possibly armed and clearly disturbed Virginia woman has apparently been stalking Apple CEO Tim Cook for the last year — and is unaware or doesn't care that he's gay and claims he's her husband and the father of her children.
Business & Tech Apple Reportedly Doles Out Special Six-Figure Bonuses to Engineers to Keep Them From Getting Poached By Meta Apple is reportedly giving out unusually big bonuses in the form of stock to select groups of engineers in the company, in an effort to stop some attrition that is happening to Facebook/Meta.
Business & Tech Omicron Scare Likely to Push Back Bay Area Back-to-Office Timeline for Many Despite there being no immediate threat of an Omicron outbreak in the Bay Area and an overall lack of data on the new variant, the general uncertainty around it is very likely to cause big Bay Area tech companies and smaller offices alike to rethink their January return-to-the-office plans.
Arts & Entertainment Martin Scorsese Grateful Dead Biopic Nabs Jonah Hill to Play Jerry Garcia Scorsese’s upcoming flick will be a yet-unnamed Grateful Dead biopic for Apple, and Jonah Hill will portray the late Jerry Garcia.
Business & Tech Apple Relents and Will Let You Repair Your Own Devices, But Only On the Newest iPhones The long-sought consumer “right to repair” will finally arrive from Apple, but only for iPhone 12 and 13, and you have to buy the tools from them.
Business & Tech Pandemic Slack Communications Inside Apple Have Led to More Employee Activism, Unrest The notoriously secretive corporate culture at Apple has been exposed to have some leaks and cracks when it comes to the treatment of employees and various other complaints.