Apple & Mac Daily News Digest

This is a rather hot topic, as many EU customers are already complaining about the higher price of Mac on this side of the Atlantic, when compared to USA; especially considering that we are closer to the assembling lines located in China… The way our Mac get more expensive might not only be associated with [...]

While the first version of the iPhone released in China came without Wi-Fi due to a temporary ban on the wireless standard, Apple is expected to remedy the situation with a new handset model in the near future.

Apple published a long report dealing with working conditions in plants manufacturing its product in Asia. This report is defining problems faced by the company that is working hard to solve them. In this report it is quoted that at least eleven 15 years old children (legal working age in China is 16) have been [...]

This is an information that might well light up a new scandal regarding working conditions and environment in China. According to reports, 62 employees working in electronic device assembling lines for Wintek have been heavily poisoned. While it took place during last summer, the information has only been revealed recently (meaning officially confirmed by Chinese [...]

At Apple’s annual shareholders meeting at its campus in Cupertino, Calif., Thursday, the company revealed it intends to open 25 stores in the nation of China.

Apple is currently conducting its annual shareholders meeting on the company’s campus in Cupertino, California, and while attendees were not permitted to bring communication devices into the meeting, Fortune is gathering reports from those in…

Apple’s business presence in China has come under scrutiny from U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who has asked the Cupertino, Calif., company for information on its human rights practices.

Despite a slow start, Apple’s smartphone presence in China could grow to 5 million iPhone sales per year — and could even double that if the company were to offer a lower cost prepaid model.

While waiting for the iPad, we have a preview of the assembly: here are two photographs that one of our contacts forwarded to us direct from China.  The frame of the iPad is shown, onto which the remainder of the device is grafted including the glass of the screen that will be glued as on the [...]

While initial iPhone sales have not had a blockbuster start in China, Apple executives said this week they don’t mind — for them, it’s all about building the Apple brand for the long haul.

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