Apple
big technology, companyPublic
| Apple link () | |
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| Formation | April 1, 1976 |
| Founders | Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne |
| Headquarters | 1 Apple Park Way, Cupertino, California, U.S. |
| Type | Public |
| Subgroups | Apple Studios, Beats Electronics, Beddit, Braeburn Capital, Claris, Globalstar, (20%) |
| Staff | 166,000 |
| Interests | Platformization, Planned obsolescence, mass surveillance, statecraft |
| A tech company, in a corrupt duopoly with Microsoft, its effective social engineering of children during the 2010s and 2000s and its adaption of youth culture made it the most valuable company in the world. PRISM-member. Throws activists or anyone not a WEF-member of their platform in geopolitical dilemmas. Fashion industry and wage slavery promoter. | |
Apple is a California based technology company.
Activities
In 2019 Apple banned an app to help people in Hong Kong keep track of protests and police activity in the city state, claiming such information is illegal. “Your app contains content - or facilitates, enables, and encourages an activity - that is not legal ... specifically, the app allowed users to evade law enforcement," the American tech giant told makers of the HKmap Live on Tuesday before pulling it.[1]
In November 2022 Apple "restricted the use of AirDrop in China, a move that harmed the organizational efforts of demonstrators protesting against the CCP’s lockdowns".[2]
CIA connections
In the mid-1980s, as Steve Jobs struggled to keep his post-Apple venture NeXT alive, an unexpected lifeline arrived from the CIA. Their interest in NeXT’s technology helped sustain the company long enough for Apple to later acquire it, thus bringing Jobs back and providing the foundational operating system that would power the modern Mac and iPhone.[3]
Before Apple bought Siri in 2010, the voice assistant grew out of SRI International research funded by DARPA, and the Siri startup was backed by In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment firm created to help the CIA and the wider U.S. intelligence community to access emerging technology.[4] The following year, Siri appeared as a headline feature on the iPhone 4S.
Operating systems
Apple devices runs proprietary operating systems with backdoors.[5]
Planned obsolescence
- Full article: Planned obsolescence
- Full article: Planned obsolescence
Apple has a policy of planned obsolescence for their mobile devices from the early 2000s on,[6][7][8] whether by batteries that degrade early, or software upgrades that slow the device down;[9][10][11][12][13] they are made hard to repair on purpose[14] and also have returning design problems that will brake the device after a certain time.[15] Apps that were available for IOS devices (phone/tablet) at one point, require a newer IOS version after some time (~6 years),[16][17][18] that the older phone/tablet does support anymore, thus creating the unnecessary need/incentive to buy a new device (this may also depend on the specific IOS version or it can vary from device to device, arbitrarily set by Apple).
References
- ↑ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/02/apple_hong_kong/
- ↑ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/apple-turned-protest-communication-tool-right-anti-lockdown-uprising-china
- ↑ https://macdailynews.com/2026/08/20/apple-owes-a-hidden-debt-to-the-cia/
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/technology/29apple.html
- ↑ https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.en.html
- ↑ iPod's Dirty Secret - 2003 - Casey Neistat
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090830181526/http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/message.html
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lr0NQQRq0E
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/24/apple-samsung-fined-for-slowing-down-phones
- ↑ https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/01/apple-lawsuit-portugal-planned-obsolescence/
- ↑ https://www.howtogeek.com/731791/what-is-planned-obsolescence-and-how-does-it-affect-my-devices/
- ↑ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-iphone-7-planned-obsolescence/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220505230931/https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/planned-obsolescence-or-every-new-ios-update-making-iphones-older-than-the-newest-model-slower.2024532/
- ↑ https://www.ifixit.com/News/14282/apples-latest-innovation-is-turning-planned-obsolescence-into-planned-failure
- ↑ The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures. - Louis Rossmann
- ↑ http://archive.today/2023.08.03-215726/https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/135060/how-to-install-apps-which-require-a-newer-version-of-ios-on-a-1st-gen-ipad
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221209191422/https://www.howtogeek.com/263568/how-to-install-older-versions-of-ios-apps-on-an-old-iphone-or-ipad/
- ↑ http://archive.today/2023.01.05-230404/https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhoneXR/comments/mn8gwh/my_speculation_is_xr_will_get_support_till_ios_17/