Apple has drawn a lot of ire from customers lately as they speculated that Apple was turning its iPhones into spying devices. It was a bug in the FaceTime group chat feature that was later held accountable for the same. The bug was feared to have infected the devices and it was later spotted by a teen from Arizona, United States. The undergraduate boy from Tucsan received a whopping amount from Apple as a reward for spotting the problem. The 14-year-old Grant Thompson will also receive money from Apple to support his future education. Apple previously announced to offer bounties up to $200,000 to people that discover serious technological problems.

In the Apple’s security updates announcement, Apple has also credited the freshman from Catalina Foothills High School along with Deven Morris from Texas. Michele Thompson, an elated mother of Grant told to USA Today through a text message, “We want to thank Apple for giving credit to Grant in the security update, meeting with us…and awarding Grant for his discovery.” She further added, ” We intend to use any money received towards future college expenses”.

Here’s how Grant has found the glitch:

When Grant was preparing to play the popular videogame ‘Fortnite’, he attempted to start a FaceTime group chat with his friend. While trying to call his friend, Thompson noticed that even though the FaceTime call was still ringing and his friend was unable to answer it, the phone kept transmitting audio to his friend’s phone the entire time.

In the meanwhile, his friend in the other side was shocked to hear Thompson’s voice ask ‘What’s up?’despite him not answering it!

“All three of us (friends) spent the next half n hour testing to see if it really was a glitch or just some accident”, Thompson said.

Thompson and his sister replicated this problem in front of their mother and became assured of the glitch.  Michele Thompson said, “I took it seriously because I realised there were some major security implications.” Michele, an Attorney, successively tried to contact Apple to tell them about the security issue but to no avail.

But then, hell bent to make a buzz, Michele called Apple customer care support, tagged Apple in Facebook posts, sent tweets, registered as a developer to submit a warning through Apple’s bug reporting website, and finally faxed a letter on her law firm’s letterhead to Apple general counsel.

Apple finally became aware when the industry news site 9toMac reported the glitch. The company said that they temporarily disabled the group-chat function in FaceTime and would install a software update to fix the safety issue.

Apple immediately met the family and thanked them for finding out the problem. The Thompsons revealed that they will continue to use Apple devices, this time more cautiously.

How you can fix the problem in your own device:

Experts say that to fix the problem in their own phones, Apple customers have to install the 12.1.4 security update on their iPhone, iPad or iMac soon. To do this, you will have to go to Settings>General>Software Update. Then choose Download and Install. During the continuation of the process, the battery of the phone has to be 50 percent or at least be plugged in. Apple was quoted as saying, “We sincerely apologise to our customers who were affected and all who were concerned about the security issue.”

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For Apple fan boys, this news will surely make them jump from their seats!

Seems like Apple Inc. has taken its innovation strategy to the next level, they are now onto developing driverless cars similar to their rivals Google Inc. and NASA.

An iCar Concept on The Charts  

It might be called the ‘iCar’ or the ‘iWheels’ since Apple is ‘i’ everything with their product names. Ever since Steve Jobs passed away, the company hasn’t really launched very path-breaking products as of yet; they only bettered their past products in a new avatar. But this news, carried out first by Wall Street Journal sets the bar really high for the Cupertino based electronics giant; going from consumer electronics to the consumer automobile segment is a huge leap!

Since very few details have been leaked out till now, thus we can say for sure that a driver-less autonomous car it will be for sure! Also, its design will be very different from car designs we see from other manufacturers since this is Apple – pioneers in design that enthrals its audience.

Tim Cook, the chief executive company, recently revealed in a statement to the media that, ‘There are some products that we’re working on currently and about which no one knows about or has spread rumours regarding them ’.

This statement is just enough to make Apple fan boys gloat with glee!

Apple iCar proposed interior

How Much Truth in the Speculation?

We will now look at the degree of truth in the WSJ report. To begin, the erstwhile leader of the company, Steve Jobs himself always wanted to add a unique car to Apple’s bevy of products. He was an ardent admirer of Porsche’s design and finesse. He revered their matchless performance and brand philosophy. It was one of Jobs’visionary ideas to create an automobile that supported their iconic logo on its grille.

• One of Apple’s board members, Mickey Drexler had said last year that, “If Steve Jobs were alive, he was surely going to design an iCar for Apple.” It’s good to know that one of his confidants, Tim Cook is living up to Job’s expectations from Apple before he passed away.

• If we scrutinize the list of recently hired employees by Apple, about 50 in key positions are from Tesla, a company pioneering in electric cars. Recently, a rumour was rife in the job market that the company is secretly recruiting the best people from around the world specializing in battery technology. After all, electric cars run on batteries alone!

• Apparently, Apple has created a new project, code-named the ‘Titan’ being led by Steve Zadesky, a former Ford engineer and an auto industry celeb in his own right. The project currently employs hundreds of people working on a new car project.

• Johann Jungwirth, the former head of Mercedes-Benz’s research and development division in Silicon Valley is also rumoured to be on the project list.

• Marc Newson, recently hired Apple exec., is a very well-known industrial designer having prowess in automobile technology and is a very close confidant of Apple’s chief design artist, Jonathan Ive.

Apple is slowly trailing Google in a race to pit heads against each other in this electric car race it seems. If Apple wants to keep its shares soaring, it needs to keep innovating on ideas like this to maintain its market position to have fair competition with Google or else, Google will win this race too like it is winning the iOS versus Android race in the market at the moment.

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