France probes Apple over restricting smartphone repair

France is investigating US tech giant Apple over it allegedly planning for smartphones to become out of date through restricting their repair, prosecutors and an association said on Monday.HOP said it hoped the investigation would demonstrate the iPhone maker was “associating the serial numbers of spare parts to those of a smartphone,

Was the iPhone 14 Apple’s biggest disappointment in a decade?

According to an aggregation of online reviews, the iPhone 14 has scored the lowest proportion of five-star reviews since 2017’s iPhone 8, and it’s the first iPhone in a decade to see the percentage of 5-star ratings decline against the previous model (if you’re prepared to test it for yourself,