How I Discovered the First Big Mobile Privacy Scandal
That smartphones can track our every movement seems obvious today, but in 2011 we weren’t quite used to the idea. Continue reading How I Discovered the First Big Mobile Privacy Scandal
Category Archives: What Is the iPhone?
Apple’s Long History of Rejecting ‘Objectionable Content’ From the App Store
This is the story of technology’s most important walled garden. Continue reading Apple’s Long History of Rejecting ‘Objectionable Content’ From the App Store
iPhone Bugs Are Too Valuable to Report to Apple
For now, security researchers who have been invited by Apple to submit high-value bugs through the program prefer to keep the bugs for themselves. Continue reading iPhone Bugs Are Too Valuable to Report to Apple
Apple Has Been Struggling with the Stylus for 20 Years
Nearly 20 years before Apple popularized the tablet computer, it created a series of prototype devices that in some ways operate closer to the modern-day iPad Pro than the machine it actually released in 2010. Continue reading Apple Has Been Struggling with the Stylus for 20 Years
Radio Motherboard Live: What Is the iPhone?
Listen to the Motherboard crew discuss the inner workings of the iPhone on this week’s podcast. Continue reading Radio Motherboard Live: What Is the iPhone?
The Environmental Case for the iPhone
They’re barely recyclable, we unnecessarily upgrade them, and they take tons of natural resources to make … they also mark unexpected environmental progress. Continue reading The Environmental Case for the iPhone
iPhone Repair Pros Tell Us About the Most Fucked Up Phones They’ve Fixed
PSA: PLEASE DON’T SHOOT YOUR PHONE WITH A GUN. Continue reading iPhone Repair Pros Tell Us About the Most Fucked Up Phones They’ve Fixed
The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking
How a ragtag group of young hackers made the iPhone what it is today. Continue reading The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking
Ethical Smartphone Startup Fairphone Wants Apple to Steal Its Idea
In many ways, Fairphone is more of an advocacy group than a tech company. Continue reading Ethical Smartphone Startup Fairphone Wants Apple to Steal Its Idea
The iPhone Revolutionized Gay Hookup Culture
With Grindr, love and sex became available in abundance. So did body shaming and discrimination. Continue reading The iPhone Revolutionized Gay Hookup Culture