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Apple releases updated iOS 9.2.1 variant to make amends for handsets affected by Error 53

A bit of an apology from Apple following the “Error 53” controversy. Apple on Thursday released an updated version of iOS 9.2.1, bypassing what the company has admitted to be a factory test of the Home button during start up. Apple released an updated version of iOS 9.2.1 to restore newer iPhones that were disabled […]

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Apple to convert failed GT Advanced Technologies Arizona factory into data center

Remember that whole sapphire iPhone screen thing? When an idea goes south, you can still use the intended facility for something. Following GT Advanced Technologies’ plans to file for Chapter 11, Apple appears to be swooping in with a plan to invest US$2 billion to convert their Arizona factory into a data center. The more […]

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Leaked pictures purportedly show finished iPhone 6 handset

A new set of leaked photos apparently shows the final, finished and working iPhone 6 handset. With less than a month until its anticipated, TMZ was able to grab shots of the upcoming device. 5S. Per The Mac Observer, the photos landed in the hands of the tabloid site TMZ which said the iPhone in […]

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GT Advanced nears completion of Arizona plant, could raise production of sapphire coating materials for iPhone 6, other devices

Apple should be able to make its quota for items that require a sapphire coating, especially the iPhone 6, with the opening of GT Advanced Technologies’ new factory in Arizona. Per AppleInsider, GT Advanced Technologies on Monday said its Arizona sapphire manufacturing facility in Arizona, built in partnership with Apple, is nearly complete and will […]

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Child Labor Watch points toward initial low-cost iPhone production at Pegatron factory

It’s the iPhone, but at a lower cost…and plasticky. Per AppleInsider and China Labor Watch, a new plastic iPhone is currently being tested Apple supplier Pegatron, and will soon go into mass production and hit the market, one factory worker claims. Details of Apple’s anticipated low-cost iPhone were revealed in a report published by China […]