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To woo China, Apple must learn that it’s not in California any more

Developing markets offer growth: but the firm’s phones must become cheaper and its services must compete with local rivals

Apple’s woes go far beyond the slowdown in the Chinese economy

Higher price tags, competition, cultural differences and saturation in the west have led to longer replacement cycles

Australia made third highest number of requests for Apple data in the world

In the first half of 2018 Australian authorities made 2,375 requests, more than China, Singapore or the UK

iPhone owners have less than two weeks to replace battery for £25

Cost of out-of-warranty battery replacements is due to jump to as much as £65

Cat Condo is the stupidest, most cynical game in the App Store. So why can’t I stop playing?

To win the game without spending money or watching ads, you tap your phone screen as fast as you can, nonstop, for 3,000 years

Apple has always been a control freak. But is it guilty of abusing its monopoly power?

If a seven-year-old antitrust case finds Apple guilty of misusing its position in the apps market, the ramifications could be huge

Apple supplier to slash expenses amid concern over iPhone sales

Foxconn Technology Group plans to cut costs by £2.3bn next year, according to reports

Does Apple’s sales slump mean the firm has finally peaked?

The company’s $1tn valuation has fallen 20% and fewer people are buying its iPhones

Drunk? Anaesthetised? Or just seen your bank balance? – what the new woozy emoji really means

‘Woozy Face’ is one of 158 emojis just released for the iPhone and iPad. But no one can agree on quite what it symbolises

Apple’s value dips below $1tn amid fears of iPhone sales peak

Investors take fright at slowing forecasts and withholding of number of handsets sold

iPhone XR review: Apple’s cheaper battery king

With Face ID and a decent screen, this phone attempts a happy medium between quality and price – but £750 still isn’t a bargain

Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones

Italian investigation found software updates ‘significantly reduced performance’, hastening new purchases

iPhone XR review roundup: cheaper and brighter with longer battery life

Early consensus from tech press is £750 iPhone XR is in many ways better than the £999 iPhone XS

Apple iPhone XS review: two steps forward, one step back

The iPhone XS hasn’t broken mould like the iPhone X, and it has weaker battery life, but its camera, design and performance are class-leading

iPhone XS Max review: Apple’s supersized smartphone

Its massive screen is beautiful, but has it lost some of the charm that made the iPhone X so good?

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  • Strictly Ballroom review – Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale
  • Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’
  • ‘They kissed, and the audience roared’: the new musical about gay activists and striking miners
  • French star Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault
  • Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
  • Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival
  • Stephen Ogilvie’s family appeal for calm on second night of disorder – as it happened
  • Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
  • Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
  • The Guardian view on far-right violence: digital radicalisation is threatening democracy
  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
  • How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation
  • First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
  • Actor Tyler Mane reveals he is having treatment for rare male breast cancer
  • Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran
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  • Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular

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