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Allison Johnson

Allison Johnson

Allison reviews smartphones and covers wireless carriers for The Verge. Previously, she wrote about digital cameras and mobile photography at DPReview. She's a small phone enthusiast, home barista in training, and a roller derby retiree. You can find her on Threads most hours of the day at @allisonjo1.

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Apple really wants to make more iPhones outside of China.

It’s been a slow process, and Rest of World has a report detailing Foxconn’s struggle to ready iPhone 15 production for launch day at its Indian factory earlier this year. It’s a fascinating look behind the curtain, and it highlights the workforce of mostly young Indian women on the frontlines of the government’s “Make in India” initiative.


Screens are good, actually

Humane’s screenless mobile computer is nice and all, but actually, screens are pretty great.

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You can probably thank EU regulators for RCS on the iPhone.

Today is the deadline for Apple to argue to EU regulators that iMessage shouldn’t be designated as a core platform service.

It’s therefore extremely likely it revealed the iPhone will support RCS to please regulators, and not as a response to Nothing’s blue-bubble-on-Android news from yesterday. That’s not stopping CEO Carl Pei from taking a victory lap, earned or unearned. Never change, Carl.