iFixit slams Apple, Samsung and Microsoft
Design manipulation
iFixit co-founder and CEO Kyle Wiens has exposed how companies including Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft manipulate the design of their products and the supply chain to prevent consumers and third-party repairers from accessing necessary tools and parts to repair products such as smartphones and laptops.
Xiaomi eclipses Apple
Apple is now ranked as third
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi overtook Apple in the second quarter to become the world's No. 2 smartphone maker.
Google and Apple both push you to use their apps
No one doing that well out of the app stores
While both Google and Apple are in hot water for the management of their app stores, it appears that they both are fronts for their own software.
OnePlus 9 accused of cheating on Geekbench
Optimisation tools
Popular benchmark site Geekbench has removed OnePlus 9 benchmarks from its charts due to allegations that the company designed Oxygen OS optimization tools in such a way that they could be viewed as cheating.
Asus and Qualcomm team up on a fan phone
Cool but pricey
ASUS and Qualcomm have teamed up to make a smartphone that shows off Snapdragon tech.