Re/Code delivers some new information about the GT Bankruptcy story: Sapphire crystal maker GT Advanced Technologies, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this week, has asked the court’s permission to “wind down” operations at its manufacturing plant, less than a year after announcing a high-profile deal to supply the material to Apple. I think that bury even more the possibility of seeing some GT Advanced sapphire screens on future iPhones.…

Daisuke Wakabayashi, for the WSJ: A hint of troubles at GT came last month, when Apple said it wouldn’t use sapphire screens in its new iPhones, contrary to what many observers expected. Apple added to GT’s financial pressures by not making a final $139 million prepayment loan because GT hadn’t met the technical milestones laid out by the company, the people familiar with the matter said. GT had said earlier that it expected Apple to make that payment by the end of October.…

The great Jason Snell, about Apple and Google decision to encrypt user’s phones: Law enforcement officials usually play on our fears whenever their powers are limited, but those limitations are what keep our society from being a police state. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Miranda v. Arizona in 1966 led to catastrophic predictions that many criminals would go free and society would be harmed if all arrested people were informed of their rights.…

OK, so, this is not a very original way to start a blog about technology, but I’m not a very original guy so, why not? Those are the first words of the Fma16 blog, which, indeed, is not a very original name for a blog, as would be Hypercritical, Daring Fireball, or the wonderful Liss Is More (kudos to Casey Liss for this one, very funny). What is this? This is a blog mainly about technology, which is not something that I work in, but is something that I love.…