Tim Cook, Apple’s present CEO, took the top position at the company after the death of Steve Jobs back in 2011. Now, Forbes is reporting that Apple’s board of directors isn’t exactly pleased with Cook’s performance as CEO and is planning on finding an apt replacement.
Some analysts predicted around one and a half-year ago that Apple would launch a wrist watch soon which will be called iWatch. Lately, the speculation got a lift when new set of rumors claimed that Apple is really working on a curved glass for its smartwatch, popularly branded as iWatch. Even though the device is yet to be confirmed, a new survey has discovered that 19 percent of consumers are interested to buy Apple’s iWatch when it’ll be available.
PC sales have been taking a hit from the expanding mobile market for some time now. Hardware vendors have been finding it difficult to sustain their sales and profits due to this. It would now seem that even Apple’s Mac division is suffering as DigiTimes claims that Apple has altogether stopped placing orders for Mac components for now.
We recently reported that Apple was in the hot seat in China when the state-media started criticizing the company for offering an unfair returns policy. Now, the Chinese government has told Apple to remove certain content from its App Store which the authorities have flagged as ‘obscene.’
Apple’s presence in China has been riddled with a lot of problems. While the company is being accused of offering an ‘unfair’ returns policy for customers in China, it has been discovered that Apple was being scammed by employees in a given store who exploited its returns policy.
Facebook Home, a free software that shows users the latest updates from their friends and enables users to reply them without having to open a separate app, was announced on April 4. The Facebook Home for Android was released formally on April 12. Recently, some websites have reported that Facebook was in talks with Apple and Microsoft over Facebook Home integration into iPhone and Windows Phone. But it’s not true.
Apple’s new generation communication service iMessage and FaceTime were experiencing outages for some users yesterday. But good thing is they made it up and are running normally once again. It seems like, the outage did not affect everyone. But some users experienced the issue when they tried to communicate using iMessage and/or FaceTime.
Recently, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported that Apple and Yahoo are discussing how Yahoo services can be integrated more deeply into Apple’s iOS.