"Apple, which often positions itself as a champion of privacy and human rights, is sending some IP addresses from users of its Safari browser on iOS to Chinese conglomerate Tencent -- a company with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party," reports the Reclaim the Net blog:Apple admits that it sends some user IP addresses to Tencent in the "About Safari & Privacy" section of its Safari settings ...

Overall IT spending is expected to slow down as the year’s end approaches, according to the latest survey data of company software decision makers by market research firm ETR ... Already, Teams’ market share trounces that of the older Zoom and Slack, with 60 percent of businesses of all sizes saying they use or plan to use Teams this quarter

iPhones make up a tiny percent of the Indian smartphone market—and no one knows that better than Apple

"They have to if they want to play in that market ... And they all want to play in that market

Of course China is a huge market for tech companies, which have been criticized about talking big about freedom of expression and human rights, and then seemingly ignoring those ideals when it comes time to access the huge and lucrative Chinese market ... Google found itself at the business end of a firestorm of criticism when news leaked that it was working on a special, censored, search engine for the Chinese market

Blizzard, Apple, and Google remove signs of support for pro-democracy protesters, in apparent concessions to the politics underlying the Chinese market

Apple has to think about the consequences of its unwise and reckless decision," the China Daily writer warns in a not-so-veiled threat about continued access to the Chinese market ... They also need to know that only the prosperity of China and China"s Hong Kong will bring them a broader and more sustainable market

It would further carve into a declining tablet market and likely steal share from the Mac as well as carve into the market for Apple’s high-margin keyboard cases the Smart Keyboard Folio for the 12 ... A reasonably priced, keyboard-equipped version could give Apple a cost-competitive, sturdy option as it does battle with Google’s Chromebooks in the school market

Smartwatches are everywhere, and sales figures back up their increasing spread across the US ... In 2018, sales in that market had increased more than 60 percent over the year before, according to the Verge

As Apple’s iPhone 11 models goes on sale world-wide, they face their biggest challenge in China, Apple’s second-largest market, where new cameras and lower prices aim to help stanch sales declines