iPhone ‘bug‘
Sky News, Apple fixing bug in iPhone speech-to-text glitch which interprets ‘racist’ as ‘Trump’, 26 Feb 2025 “The fault has been linked to people speaking “words with some phonetic...
Phone Components Indonesia
Aisyah Llewellyn, Al Jazeera, Indonesia’s Apple and Google bans frustrate country’s tech fans, 1 Jan 2025 “Indonesia, the fourth-most populous country with some 280 million people, is one of...
Apple Indonesia
SCMP, Apple offers Indonesia US$10 million sweetener to reverse its iPhone ban, 5 Nov 2024 “Indonesia’s iPhone ban is an example of the pressure Prabowo Subianto’s government is putting...
Apple+Indonesia(?)
Reuters, Apple CEO says it is considering a manufacturing facility in Indonesia, 17 Apr 2024 “Indonesia has a huge, tech-savvy population, making the Southeast Asian nation a key target...
Iran iPhone Scam
Al Jazeera, Arrests after Iran’s iPhone ban paves way for multimillion-dollar scam, 18 Feb 2024, “At least one person has been arrested and more are wanted after a company...
Old Macs
I was discussing with students how technology marches on (not necessarily in a straight line), so I was interested to coincidentally see this article from Wired.
Qur’an “in your pocket”
So, farewell to the iPod. It was an important innovation at the time, not least in the area of Cyber Islamic Environments. I wrote about how it became possible...