{"id":1000201,"date":"2026-03-31T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000201"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:22:09","slug":"design-disruption-and-drama-apples-most-defining-controversies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/31\/design-disruption-and-drama-apples-most-defining-controversies\/","title":{"rendered":"Design, disruption, and drama: Apple\u2019s most defining controversies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. has faced its share of turbulence over the years\u2014from product controversies involving the iPhone and MacBook, to headline-grabbing episodes like &#8220;Bendgate&#8221; and &#8220;Batterygate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It has also been at the centre of legal battles and ongoing scrutiny over the control it exerts through its App Store ecosystem. At the same time, Apple has taken a firm and often contentious stance on user privacy, most notably in its refusal to compromise encryption even under government pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. has faced its share of turbulence over the years\u2014from product controversies involving the iPhone and MacBook, to headline-grabbing episodes like &#8220;Bendgate&#8221; and &#8220;Batterygate.&#8221; It has also been at the centre of legal battles and ongoing scrutiny over the control it exerts through its App Store ecosystem. At the same time, Apple has taken a firm and often contentious stance on user privacy, most notably in its refusal to compromise encryption even under government pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}