C’mon, be committed to the cause!
Apple is using an office in Israel to develop hardware for the “iPhone 8,” which is expected to be released next year with a radical redesign, according to an employee at the site.
Details on the iPhone 8 are scarce, but some reports, including this one from MacRumours, suggest that it will have an edge-to-edge display that removes the need for the top and bottom bezels where features like the fingerprint sensor and the front-facing camera are located.
Some hardware for the iPhone 8 is being created in Herzliya, Israel, according to a local Apple employee, who said employees in Israel work on all of Apple’s new products.
The employee, whose identity is being concealed by Business Insider, solders components for Apple. This person didn’t give too much away about the new handset but said it would be “different” from the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 7, which have been criticised for being too similar to their predecessors.
Speaking with Business Insider outside Apple’s Herzliya office at Maskit Street 12, the Apple employee said employees in Israel were working on what’s coming “next” in Apple’s product line, giving a specific mention to the iPhone 8.
Of course, if they were truly committed, they would have been boycotting Apple for a long time already.
Oh, and it gets worse.
Avi Hasson, the chief scientist of the Ministry of Economy of the State of Israel, told Business Insider on Monday that almost every major Silicon Valley tech firm had an outpost in Israel, adding that the country was a “fountain of innovation.”
Time to bring out James again.
