Apple has had a lot going on lately: we did a whole episode about the controversial child protection photo scanning features, which have now been delayed. A law in South Korea might force the company to change how App Store payments work; the company settled a Japanese case about the App Store recently, as well as a class-action lawsuit in this country. The verdict in the Epic trial will arrive and there are renewed questions about Apple’s relationship with the Chinese government. And, of course, it’s September — the month when new iPhones usually come out.
But in the background, Verge senior reporter Zoë Schiffer has spent the past few months publishing story after story about unhappy Apple employees, who are starting to talk to the press more and more about what working at Apple is like, and how they’d like it to change. Nilay Patel talks to Zoë about the work she's been doing and what the future holds.
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Here’s why Apple’s new child safety features are so controversial bit.ly/3n9E07W↗
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Apple delays controversial child protection features after privacy outcry bit.ly/38QdWX2↗
Apple and Google must allow developers to use other payment systems, new Korean law declares bit.ly/3BQeXeb↗
Apple concedes to let apps like Netflix, Spotify, and Kindle link to the web to sign up bit.ly/3kT88Sg↗
Epic Games v. Apple: the fight for the future of the App Store
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on competing with Microsoft, the future of work, and managing all those notifications bit.ly/2VqBZck↗
Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into “misogynistic” new hire bit.ly/3h4Sqm4↗
“Misogynistic” Apple hire is out hours after employees call for investigation bit.ly/3naaL5c↗
Apple asks staff to return to office three days a week starting in early September bit.ly/3yNcUWn↗
Apple employees push back against returning to the office in internal letter bit.ly/3BJYSXy↗
Apple delays mandatory return to office until January 2022, citing COVID-19 surge bit.ly/3l433H5↗
Apple places female engineering program manager on administrative leave after tweeting about sexism in the office bit.ly/3jNwuO0↗
Google fires prominent AI ethicist Timnit Gebru bit.ly/3toFXhZ↗
Apple Shareholders Show Their Support for Tim Cook nyti.ms/3tkAn01↗
Apple says all US employees now receive equal pay for equal work bit.ly/3zSbpYj↗
Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity -- and labor lawyers say it’s illegal bit.ly/3BNa85E↗
Apple says it has pay equity, but an informal employee survey suggests otherwise bit.ly/3zSJYh0↗
Apple just banned a pay equity Slack channel but lets fun dogs channel lie bit.ly/3hbiyvB↗
Apple employees are organizing, now under the banner #AppleToo bit.ly/3hazJNP↗
Here’s what we know about the Google union so far bit.ly/2WWNfNK↗
Google employees push back after mishandled sexual harassment revelations bit.ly/3DUVv23↗