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Apple's considerable commercial success is partly attributable to the outsourcing of its consumer electronics production to Asia. As the principal manufacturer of products and components for Apple, Taiwanese company Foxconn employed 1.4 million China-based workers in 2013. The workers are part of China's "floating population" of 200 million ...
Apple Inc. has been the subject of criticism and legal action. This includes its handling labor violations at its outsourced manufacturing hubs in China, its environmental impact of its supply chains, tax and monopoly practices, a lack of diversity and women in leadership in corporate and retail, various labor conditions (mishandling sexual misconduct complaints), and its response to worker ...
The case In re Apple iPod iTunes Antitrust Litigation was filed as a class action in 2005 [9] claiming Apple violated the U.S. antitrust statutes in operating a music-downloading monopoly that it created by changing its software design to the proprietary FairPlay encoding in 2004, resulting in other vendors' music files being incompatible with and thus inoperable on the iPod. [10]
Apple agreed in 2020 to pay between $310 and $500 million as part of a settlement in response to complaints that the company’s software updates were deliberately throttling the performance of ...
The iPhone could soon include generative artificial intelligence from Google or OpenAI, according to a new report.. Apple is in “active negotiations” to add ChatGPT or Gemini into the iPhone ...
Palantir Technologies Inc. is an American publicly traded company that specializes in software platforms [3] for big data analytics.Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, it was founded by Peter Thiel, [4] Stephen Cohen, Joe Lonsdale, [5] and Alex Karp in 2003.
The pattern of suing and countersuing really began in 2009 as growth in the demand for smartphones accelerated dramatically with the advent of the modern smartphone, which combined a responsive touch screen with a modern multi-tasking operating system, a browser that provided full web access and an application store, in the form of the Apple iPhone 3G and the first Android phones.
Apple has yielded to pressure by European regulators to give rivals access to the contactless payments technology on iPhones, meaning that their users will no longer be limited to the Apple Pay ...