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In 2015 and 2016, Apple aggressively expanded its retail presence in China with 30 new stores, according to the Apple Storefronts tracker. Since the start of 2017, however, Apple has opened just five new locations in the country.Apple's newest store in China in Suzhou The Information's Wayne Ma has shared a report today that offers explanations for the slowdown, including China's bureaucratic government, scalpers, previously-reported fraud, and increasing competition from Chinese smartphone makers. The report is based on interviews with 17 former Apple employees.On government bureaucracy:Apple had to navigate a maze of government bureaucracy to obtain everything from business and tax licenses to construction, fire and customs permits for imported building materials, former employees say. The regulatory framework in China is far more complicated than in the U.S., with many more layers of government, these former employee say, and it’s far more opaque.

Employees frequently scrambled to chase down permits and local approvals to keep store openings on track, they said.On scalpers:Apple, too, had to contend with scalpers, known as 'yellow cows' in colloquial Chinese. These scalpers swarmed its stores and elbowed out other customers during product launches and in-store promotions. Apple executives worried they were losing control of the customer experience in their stores, and along with it opportunities to interact with real consumers.

The scalpers showed little interest in the accessories and add-on services Apple likes to offer customers.Other factors, according. Apple today said it is 'urgently investigating' a report that claims Apple Watch manufacturer Quanta Computer has subjected teenage students to illegal work conditions at its factory in the Chinese city of Chongqing.'

We are urgently investigating the report that student interns added in September are working overtime and night shifts,' Apple said, in a statement issued to CNN. 'We have zero tolerance for failure to comply with our standards and we ensure swift action and appropriate remediation if we discover code violations.' In a report last week, Hong Kong labor rights group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior said Quanta was 'using significant numbers of student workers aged 16-19 years' to assemble the Apple Watch, under working conditions that do not comply with Chinese regulations or Apple's own standards.Based on an investigation during the summer of 2018, SACOM found that many students were forced to complete internships at Quanta, or face the risk of delayed graduation. The internships were often unrelated to each student's field of study, and lacked an educational component, according to the findings.' Our school told us that we will be deferred if we don't do the internship,' said a student majoring in early education.

'If we resign then we will also receive our graduation certificate half a year later than others.' The report also found that students were often illegally required to work at least a few hours of overtime per day and overnight shifts.In its statement, Apple said it audited Quanta's factory in Chongqing. Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook called on Bloomberg to retract a highly controversial story suggesting Chinese spies planted microchips in the Supermicro server motherboards used in Apple's data facilities, saying there was no truth to Bloomberg's claims.Today, Supermicro Charles Liang joined Cook in calling for a retraction. In a statement shared by CNBC, Liang said that Supermicro has not found malicious hardware components in its products, nor has Bloomberg produced an affected Supermicro motherboard. Bloomberg, he says, should 'act responsibly' and retract its 'unsupported allegations.' Liang's full statement:Supermicro is committed to making world-class servers and storage products.

Bloomberg's recent story has created unwarranted confusion and concern for our customers, and has caused our customers, and us, harm.Bloomberg should act responsibly and retract its unsupported allegations that malicious hardware components were implanted on our motherboards during the manufacturing process.The allegations imply there are a large number of affected motherboards. Bloomberg has not produced a single affected motherboard, we have seen no malicious hardware components in our products, no government agency has contacted us about malicious hardware components, and no customer has reported finding any malicious hardware components, either.Supermicro, like Apple and other companies involved, has denied all of Bloomberg's claims since the story was first released. Supermicro previously said it was not aware of any investigation nor any companies that had found.

Apple has formally apologized to users in China over the hacking of some Chinese accounts in a series of phishing scams that hit the country last week. The successful phishing attacks used stolen Apple IDs to gain access to customer funds, leading to 'a small number of.users' accounts' being accessed through these scams (via The Wall Street Journal).In a statement shared in China today, Apple said: 'We are deeply apologetic about the inconvenience caused to our customers by these phishing scams.' When news of the incident emerged last week, Chinese mobile payment companies Alipay and WeChat reported that hackers were able to take an unknown amount of money from accounts using stolen Apple IDs. Some users were said to have lost up to 2,000 yuan ($288) following the breach.According to Apple's new statement, these victims had not enabled two-factor authentication, making it easier for the hackers to gain access to their accounts.

Apple didn't confirm how many users were affected in China, how much money was stolen in total, or how the hackers gained access to the Apple IDs in question. The company encouraged all users to enable two-factor authentication on their accounts to ensure further security protections are in place.China remains important to Apple's overseas expansion plans, but the company has faced numerous speed bumps in this regard over the years. In 2018, Apple moved Chinese iCloud data to state-owned China Telecom, which brought up user privacy concerns; faced an issue with an overabundance of illegal gambling apps on the Chinese iOS App. Russia-based cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab today said that while 'hardware supply chain attacks are a reality,' evidence suggests Bloomberg Businessweek's report about Chinese intelligence tampering with server motherboards manufactured by Apple's former supplier Supermicro is 'untrue.' Apple data center Kaspersky Lab said the report 'should be taken with a grain of salt' in its 14-page analysis of the alleged attack, obtained by MacRumors:The stories published by Bloomberg in October 2018 had a significant impact. For Supermicro, it meant a 40% stock valuation loss. For businesses owning Supermicro hardware, this can be translated into a lot of frustration, wasted time, and resources.

Considering the strong denials from Apple and Amazon, the history of inaccurate articles published by Bloomberg, including but not limited to the usage of Heartbleed by U.S. Intelligence prior to the public disclosure, as well as other facts from these stories, we believe they should be taken with a grain of salt.Kaspersky Lab added that the language in both Apple and Amazon statements denying the Bloomberg Businessweek report are 'pretty strong' and 'leaves little to no chance of retractions or denials at a later time.' The firm added that the statements are regulated by the SEC in the United States.The key part of Apple's statement was as follows:On this we can be very clear: Apple has never found malicious chips, 'hardware manipulations' or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server. Apple never had any contact with the FBI or any other agency about such an incident.

In a research note obtained by MacRumors, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said cumulative smartphone shipments from four major brands on the Chinese market, including Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi, declined 10 percent on a year-over-year basis during China's Golden Week, a national holiday and major sales period.iPhone XR in (PRODUCT)RED Kuo, writing on behalf of research firm TF International Securities, said the estimated 6.5-7 million shipments during Golden Week were 'lower than expected.' He called Huawei the 'major winner' as the only brand with a year-over-year increase in shipments during the October 1-7 holiday.The well-known analyst attributed the year-over-year decline to a lack of innovative selling points among Chinese-brand smartphones. Kuo is positive on the trends of triple-lens cameras and fingerprint sensors under the display in smartphones, but said only limited models currently support both functions.Kuo also cautioned that the US-China trade war 'may be affecting consumer confidence, which makes the replacement cycle longer.'

A third reason is that some consumers—particularly existing iPhone owners—will opt for more affordable legacy iPhone models or wait for the iPhone XR, according to Kuo, who expects replacement demands for the iPhone XR in China will be better than last year's demand for the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus.Extrapolating from Golden Week, Kuo said smartphone shipments in China in 2018 as a whole may be 'lower than expected.' He estimates shipments may decline 10-15 percent to 410 million units on a year-over-year. Rob Joyce, Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity Strategy at the NSA, is the latest official to question the accuracy of Bloomberg Businessweek's bombshell 'The Big Hack' report about Chinese spies compromising the U.S. Tech supply chain.' I have pretty good understanding about what we're worried about and what we're working on from my position.

I don't see it,' said Joyce, speaking at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce cyber summit in Washington, D.C. Today, according to a subscriber-only Politico report viewed by MacRumors. 'I've got all sorts of commercial industry freaking out and just losing their minds about this concern, and nobody's found anything,' Joyce added.Joyce, a former White House cybersecurity coordinator, noted that all of the companies named in the Bloomberg Businessweek report have issued strong denials, including Apple, Amazon, and Supermicro.

He said those companies would 'suffer a world of hurt' if regulators later determine that they lied.Apple's statement read in part:On this we can be very clear: Apple has never found malicious chips, 'hardware manipulations' or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server. Apple never had any contact with the FBI or any other agency about such an incident. We are not aware of any investigation by the FBI, nor are our contacts in law enforcement.Bloomberg Businessweek, citing 17 unnamed sources, claimed that Chinese spies planted tiny chips the size of a pencil tip on server motherboards manufactured by Supermicro at its Chinese factories. The servers were then sold to companies such as Apple and Amazon for. Within the past four years, Apple has managed to 'dramatically reduce' the rate of iPhone-related repair fraud in its retail stores in China, according to The Information's Wayne Ma.

The report is based on interviews with more than a dozen former Apple employees who spoke on condition of anonymity.Image: iFixit In 2013, Apple is said to have discovered a highly sophisticated fraud scheme in which organized thieves would buy or steal iPhones, remove valuable components like the processor or logic board, swap in fake components, and return the 'broken' iPhones to receive replacements they could resell.Thieves would stand outside stores with suitcases full of iPhones with some of the original components stripped out and replaced with inferior parts, two of the people said. Using the printer setting tool for mac brother. The fraudsters would hire people to pretend to be customers to return them, each taking a device to stand in line at the Genius Bar, the people said. Once the phones were swapped, the actors would pass the new phones to the fraudsters and get paid for their time, the people said.' In the old-school world, this would be a car chop shop, where you would take all the pieces off and sell them,' said Kyle Wiens, co-founder and CEO of iFixit.

'Now they're doing that with iPhones.' The report claims most of the schemes originated in Shenzhen, a southern Chinese city known as a hotbed for criminal organizations because of its proximity to gangs in nearby Hong Kong. Shenzhen is also the largest electronics manufacturing base in the world, home to many Apple suppliers like Foxconn.When the first Apple. Apple's top security chief told the U.S. Congress on Sunday that it had found no indication of suspicious transmissions or other evidence that its China supply chain was ever compromised (via Reuters).In a letter to the Senate and House commerce committees, Apple Vice President for Information Security George Stathakopoulos wrote that the company had repeatedly investigated and found no evidence to support Bloomberg Businessweek's bombshell report that alleged tiny chips were discovered inside Apple servers which allowed for backdoor transmissions to Chinese spies.' Apple's proprietary security tools are continuously scanning for precisely this kind of outbound traffic, as it indicates the existence of malware or other malicious activity.

Nothing was ever found,' he wrote in the letter provided to Reuters.Stathakopoulos repeated Apple's statements to the press that it had never found any such planted chips or been contacted by the FBI over the alleged matter. The letter follows a statement issued on Saturday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security saying it had no reason to doubt the companies who denied that they had ever discovered the tiny chips.Apple, Amazon, and Supermicro all strongly rebutted the report, which alleged that Chinese intelligence planted microchips in Supermicro servers, which Apple and Amazon previously used in their data centers. Despite the denials, which are also backed by the UK's national cyber security agency, retired Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell, and other unnamed Apple senior executives, Bloomberg said it stood by its. Department of Homeland Security today said it has 'no reason to doubt' the companies who denied a bombshell Bloomberg Businessweek report this week about Chinese spies using a tiny chip to infiltrate U.S. Companies.Homeland Security's full statement:The Department of Homeland Security is aware of the media reports of a technology supply chain compromise. Like our partners in the UK, the National Cyber Security Centre, at this time we have no reason to doubt the statements from the companies named in the story.

Information and communications technology supply chain security is core to DHS's cybersecurity mission and we are committed to the security and integrity of the technology on which Americans and others around the world increasingly rely. Just this month – National Cybersecurity Awareness Month – we launched several government-industry initiatives to develop near- and long-term solutions to manage risk posed by the complex challenges of increasingly global supply chains. These initiatives will build on existing partnerships with a wide range of technology companies to strengthen our nation's collective cybersecurity and risk management efforts.Apple, Amazon, and Supermicro have all strongly refuted the report, which alleged that Chinese intelligence planted microchips in Supermicro servers, which Apple and Amazon previously used in their data centers.Apple and Bloomberg Businessweek are in a stalemate, with the former strongly refuting the report, and the latter standing by its reporting.Apple's denial has been backed by not only the Department. Apple's efforts to thoroughly deny this week's bombshell Bloomberg Businessweek report now extend to a former top executive.Apple's former general counsel Bruce Sewell Apple's recently retired general counsel Bruce Sewell told Reuters he called the FBI's then-general counsel James Baker last year after being told by Bloomberg of an open investigation into Supermicro, and was told that nobody at the federal law enforcement agency knew what the story was about.' I got on the phone with him personally and said, 'Do you know anything about this?,' Sewell said of his conversation with Baker, reports Reuters. 'He said, 'I've never heard of this, but give me 24 hours to make sure.'

He called me back 24 hours later and said 'Nobody here knows what this story is about.' 'Sewell's comments are consistent with a statement Apple shared with Bloomberg Businessweek and on its Newsroom on Thursday:On this we can be very clear: Apple has never found malicious chips, 'hardware manipulations' or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server. Apple never had any contact with the FBI or any other agency about such an incident. We are not aware of any investigation by the FBI, nor are our contacts in law enforcement.Also from Apple's Newsroom:No one from Apple ever reached out to the FBI about anything like this, and we have never heard from the FBI about an investigation of this kind — much less tried to restrict it.Apple later clarified that it is not under any kind of gag order or other confidentiality obligations after speculation mounted.

Amazon and Supermicro have also. The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre has backed Apple's and Amazon's denials of a Bloomberg Businessweek report that claimed Chinese spies planted tiny chips the size of a pencil tip on motherboards manufactured by Supermicro, which both Apple and Amazon used at one time in data center servers.'

We are aware of the media reports but at this stage have no reason to doubt the detailed assessments made by AWS and Apple,' the agency, a unit of the GCHQ, said in a statement provided to Reuters today.' Apple today confirmed it has removed 'many' illegal gambling apps, and developers distributing them, from its App Store in China.The Wall Street Journal:'Gambling apps are illegal and not allowed on the App Store in China,' Apple said in a statement Monday. 'We have already removed many apps and developers for trying to distribute illegal gambling apps on our App Store, and we are vigilant in our efforts to find these and stop them from being on the App Store.' Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said 25,000 apps have been removed as of Sunday—which would be less than two percent of the estimated 1.8 million apps on the App Store in the country—but Apple hasn't confirmed any numbers.Apple began cracking down on gambling-related apps earlier this month, providing affected developers with the following explanation:In order to reduce fraudulent activity on the App Store and comply with government requests to address illegal online gambling activity, we are no longer allowing gambling apps submitted by individual developers.

The includes both real money gambling apps as well as apps that simulate a gambling experience. As a result, this app has been removed from the App Store. While you can no longer distribute gambling apps from this account, you may continue to submit and distribute other types of apps to the App Store.Apple notes that verified accounts from incorporated business entities may still submit gambling apps for distribution on the App Store.MacRumors reported on Apple's crackdown on gambling-related apps in the App Store earlier this month, noting that.

Apple is working with major mobile carriers in China on exploring ways to reduce iMessage spam, according to state media (via Reuters).The company is actively exploring ways to further cut spam messages, including using advanced technology to identify junk messages and rolling out more tools to block hostile accounts, an Apple official was quoted as saying by the China News Service.' We've been working to reduce the issue of spam for quite some time,' an Apple spokeswoman told Reuters in an email.She declined to comment on the China News Service report that it was working with the country's telecom firms.Chinese iPhone users are said to be a regular target of spam iMessages, many of which are said to promote illegal gambling websites. China-based BOE Technology Group is stepping up its bid to become an OLED panel supplier for Apple's future smartphones, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.BOE is the world's top producer of large liquid crystal screens and already makes displays for Apple's iPads and MacBooks, but the firm now has its sights set on the lucrative OLED panel market.

The earliest BOE could supply the OLED screens would be from 2020, one person familiar with the matter said. For iPhones intended for release later this year, Apple is set to procure screens mainly from Samsung, with a small portion coming from LG Display Co., people have said.If Apple and BOE were to agree to a deal, the Chinese manufacturer would become Apple's first OLED supplier outside of South Korea and Japan. Samsung exclusively produces OLED displays for the current iPhone X, but Apple is in the process of opening up to LG, Sharp and Japan Display.Apple has considered using BOE as an OLED supplier before.

In February 2017, Bloomberg reported that Apple had been testing BOE's OLED displays for months, but that it hadn't decided whether to add the company as a supplier. One of the reasons for the delay may have been down to the OLED panel manufacturing process, which is much more difficult than making liquid crystal displays. If so, BOE will need to do more to convince Apple that it can produce large numbers of OLED panels while maintaining the highest quality controls. If it succeeds, BOE will not only prove its manufacturing prowess with a technically challenging product, but also.

I've got a question and maybe you computer people can help me out. Last year I bought a mini disc player to record conversations and business meetings. I purposely chose to steer clear of the MP3 format because I felt more comfortable with the tried and tested MD, as I generally find it more reliable and less prone to glitches. Some of my friends tell me they have failed to record important events because the MP3 fails for one reason or another. The problem is, I would now like to transfer my library of MD recordings on to my computer for storage and playback. How can I do this and what kind of software do I need to covert the MD to digital file?

Please note that I am using a Mac, which may make it harder to transfer over to MP3 files. Thanks for all your help. Chris Discovery Bay Your question is interesting on many different levels. I remember fooling with an early MP3 player and not getting good results. Then something happened and everything I worked on disappeared.

It was not the MP3 format that was the problem, it was the particular device. This is a fairly common thing to confuse. Strictly speaking, MP3 is simply a standard format for recording sound digitally. You could buy a poor quality device for a few hundred dollars and if it did not work, it would not be the fault of the format. The same would be true of MD players, if they had not been superceded by MP3 players. It is a pity for you that you went with the MD technology, but the good news is that digital technology can usually be copied and, in this case, it is fairly straightforward. (It is, of course, this very ease of copying that has Hollywood and the record labels so worried.) With a Mac, it will be even easier, but for readers with a PC you only need to know a little bit about your sound card.

Unless you have a very old machine, your sound card should be fine. The process for recording is similar to the process described in Tech Talk a few weeks ago for copying cassette tapes, except that this time you are hooking up an MD player. The same cable that was able to copy from a cassette player can be used for the MD player.

There should be little or no degradation in sound quality this time, however. Unlike the cassette player, we are not dealing here with conversion from analogue to digital. Once again, I must recommend Audacity as the software of choice for recording. This free software works wonders and it also runs on several platforms. It is a pity more people do not write software this way.

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The following site is specifically for PC users who wish to do the same thing. It is an extensive description of how to make the copies: charman/ mdtomp3.html#recording The Audacity site for all comers.