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Are games on Apple’s App Store curated or censored?
By Chad Sapieha
Apple rejects provocative ‘news game’ focused on Syrian conflict
In a move that has generated criticism within the mobile gaming community, Apple Inc.’s app approval team has rejected Endgame: Syria, a strategy game that focuses on the ongoing conflict in the troubled Arab republic.
Developed by U.K.-based Auroch Digital, the free game is already available on Android devices and can be played in standard PC Web browsers. It’s the project of Tomas Rawlings, a British game maker who sees the medium as a platform for the expression of ideas and a way to make people think about topical issues in new ways.
(Screen grab/Auroch Digital)
Apple unveils iPad Mini
The iPad mini is 7.2 mm thin: “It’s as thin as a pencil,” and weighs 0.68 pounds, “as light as a pad of paper,” Schiller says. “We were going to say a book, but books are much heavier.”
It measures 7.9″ on a diagonal and features resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels, which is the same as the iPad 2. As expected, it does not feature Retina display. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)
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Shoppers riot at Beijing Apple store over delayed iPhones
Enraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple Inc.’s flagship Beijing store with eggs and shoving matches broke out with police on Friday when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the iPhone4S as scheduled.
Apple said later after the fracas at its store in Beijing’s trendy Sanlitun district that it would halt all retail sales of the latest iPhone in China for the time being, but said the phones would be available online, through its partner China Unicom or at official Apple resellers.
An announcer with a bullhorn told the Sanlitun store crowd around 7 a.m., before sunrise, that the phones would not go on sale as planned and that they should leave. As the crowd became more unruly, scuffles broke out between security staff and shoppers, many of whom had waited overnight in freezing weather. Police moved in and dragged some people away. Photos appeared on the Chinese blogosphere of a man who had brought raw eggs in a plastic bag, handing them out before people heaved them at the store’s tall glass windows.
“We’re suffering from cold and hunger,” a man in his 20s shouted to Reuters Television. “They said they’re not going to sell to us. Why? Why?” (Photo: Feng Li/Getty Images)
Foxconn workers in China threaten suicide over reassignments
Foxconn Technology Group, maker of parts for Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox, said some members of its 1 million-person workforce threatened to jump from a factory building earlier this month to protest an internal transfer of employees.
About 150 workers at Foxconn’s plant in Wuhan, southern China, demonstrated on Jan. 2 in opposition to the company’s plan to move them to a new production line, the Taiwanese company said in an e-mailed statement today. Foxconn didn’t say how many threatened to leap from the three-story building.
The incident was resolved the same day, after talks between the workers, executives and government officials, Foxconn said. Microsoft said in a separate statement that it investigated the issue.
Foxconn, the world’s biggest contract manufacturer of electronics including Apple Inc.’s iPhone, raised wages and boosted worker welfare in 2010 after at least 10 employees committed suicide. The Wuhan protests showed the Taipei-based company needs to improve communication with workers, said Geoffrey Crothall, a director at rights group China Labor Bulletin.
“The reason you see these protests is because the employees feel they have no other option,” Crothall said by phone from Hong Kong today. Threatening suicide is a common way for Chinese workers to draw employers’ attention to grievances, he said. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
Thousands queue for Jobs’ last iPhone
Apple Inc’s new iPhone went on sale in stores across the globe on Friday, prompting thousands to queue around city blocks to snap up the final gadget unveiled during Steve Jobs’ life.
Queues wound down the street in Sydney, Tokyo, London, Paris and Munich as fans gathered to get their hands on the iPhone 4S, ahead of later store sales in North America.
“I am a fan, a big fan. I want something to remember Steve Jobs by,” said Haruko Shiraishi, waiting patiently with her Yorkshire terrier Miu Miu at the end of an eight block queue in Tokyo’s smart Ginza shopping district. (Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
The Jobs tribute that went viral
A Hong Kong design student’s poignant tribute to Apple founder Steve Jobs became an internet hit on Thursday with its minimalist, touching symbolism and brought a job offer and a flood of commemorative merchandise using his design. Jonathan Mak/Reuters/Courtesy
Steve Jobs: A visionary for the people
Over the coming days and weeks, there will be much talk about the legacy of a man who created some of the most breathtakingly beautiful technology in the world, and the understated genius who unveiled it all while wearing blue jeans, black turtlenecks and sneakers. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
The Apple co-founder died at the age of 56 after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer and other health issues. Photo: Robert Gailbraith/Reuters
