Apple fans balked at the price of "Designed by Apple in California" when it came out. Bet they wish they'd paid it then so they could sell it now. (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)

Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Google is set to appoint manufacturing and policy veteran Sreenivasa Reddy as its top government affairs executive in India to tackle legal challenges and expand hardware assembly to the country. Sankalp Phartiyal for Bloomberg News: Reddy, currently a senior engineering executive at Microsoft Corp., is likely to join Google toward the end of this year, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified as the matter is private. He previously worked in senior positions at Apple Inc.’s India regulatory team and headed government relations at the local unit of Swedish telecom-gear maker Ericsson AB, helping to drive domestic manufacturing at both companies. Reddy’s experience will come in handy at Google, which is scouting for…

Apple has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal a ruling that could force the company to change its payment practices in the App Store. The ruling, issued by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, kept in place most of an order issued in 2021 by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. The order requires Apple to allow developers to use alternative payment methods in their apps, which could cut into Apple’s revenue from the App Store. U.S. Supreme Court Apple is seeking a review by the Supreme Court, arguing that the ruling would harm consumers and stifle innovation. The company says that the alternative payment methods would be less secure and would make…

Apple TV+ has canceled the generally well-reviewed “High Desert,” starring Patricia Arquette, after one season. “High Desert” is an eight-episode dark comedy series, starring and executive produced by Patricia Arquette, which premiered globally on May 17, 2023 on Apple TV+. “High Desert” follows Peggy (Patricia Arquette), an on-again-off-again addict who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother, with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator. Ed Hardy for Cult of Mac: Arquette herself made the announcement Sunday. While funny, High Desert wasn’t a feel-good comedy. It centered on an occasional drug addict played by Arquette who becomes a private…

More than two years after Apple announced plans to invest over $1 billion in North Carolina with over half of that investment going towards a new engineering and research center in the Research Triangle area of Raleigh and Durham, the company has finally filed development plans for the first phase with local authorities. Assemblage of seven properties in Research Triangle Park owned by Apple As shared by the Triangle Business Journal, the 41-acre initial phase at Research Triangle Park will include six buildings and a parking garage totaling 700,000 square feet of office space, 190,000 square feet of accessory space, and almost 3,000 parking spaces. Among the structures in the first phase are three office buildings with the largest coming…

A security guard at the University of California, San Francisco, is facing up to 15 years in prison after being charged with grand theft and other felonies.UCSF Medical Center (Source: Apple Maps)Niyja Bassard, aged 24, was arrested on June 22, for stealing over $200,000 worth of Apple devices that were intended to be used by UCSF medical center staff. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Bassard was arraigned on Wednesday. Read more...