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Apple assembler Foxconn buys huge site in India tech hub
Major Apple assembler Foxconn has bought a huge tract of land on the outskirts of Indian tech hub Bengaluru, the company said in a filing…
Apple is a Chinese company. Will China really allow Apple to slink away?
What will happen with Apple currently attempting to diversify production and assembly out of CCP-controlled China …
Apple MacBook assembler to set up $120 million plant in Vietnam
Quanta Computer, a Taiwanese contract manufacturer that makes MacBooks for Apple, will build a $120 million plant in Vietnam’s…
First U.S. state approves bill to ban TikTok with $10,000 fine per violation
Montana lawmakers on Friday approved a bill to ban TikTok, the first U.S. state to do so. The Montana House voted 54-43 to send the bill to…
U.S. House Select Committee to meet with Apple CEO Tim Cook to discuss China
The U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is set to meet with corporate executives including Apple CEO Tim Cook …
Tim Cook touts Apple’s ‘symbiotic relationship’ with China
As tensions between Beijing and Washington continue to rise, Tim Cook touted Apple’s “symbiotic relationship” with CCP-controlled China …
Apple assembler Foxconn wins AirPod order, plans $200 million factory in India
Taiwan-based contract manufacturer Foxconn has won an order to assemble AirPods for Apple and plans to build a $200 million factory complex…
Major Apple assembler Foxconn ramps up investment outside China
Foxconn, which assembles around 70% of Apple’s iPhones, has been diversifying production away from CCP-controlled China, whose…
Apple supplier Goertek says VP exiting just days after he sounded alarm on communist China supply chain exodus
One of Apple’s largest acoustic products suppliers, Goertek, on Wednesday said its vice-president Kazuyoshi Yoshinaga is leaving the company…
Better late than never: Apple suppliers race to exit China
Apple suppliers are likely to move capacity out of China far faster than many observers anticipate to pre-empt fallout from…
What would Joseph Schumpeter have thought of Apple?
Joseph Schumpeter was an Austrian-born political economist. He served briefly as Finance Minister of German-Austria in 1919…
Apple’s belated effort to diversify away from China into India hits stumbling blocks
Apple is hitting stumbling blocks in its effort to increase production in India, as it faces pressure to cut its over reliance on China…
U.S. Senator urges Apple to ban TikTok from its App Store
A member of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is calling on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores over concerns…
Apple reportedly brings Chinese Communist Party web censorship to Hong Kong
Users of Apple’s Safari web browser in Hong Kong who recently tried to visit code-sharing website GitLab, received a warning instead…
Didi Global’s ride-hailing app back on Apple’s App Store in China
Chinese technology company Didi Global’s domestic ride-hailing app has returned to China’s domestic Apple App Store…
India is shaping up as the right place for Apple to ease China dependence
Apple and, in fact, many western manufacturers are increasingly uncomfortable with their heavy dependence on CCP=-controlled China…
CCP releases all ‘high-risk’ COVID zones from lockdown in China
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has slashed the number of locations deemed “high risk” COVID zones inChina, re-opening locked down…
Apple assembler Foxconn, widespread protests pushed China to ease ‘Zero COVID’ curbs
A letter from the founder of Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone assembler, played a major role in persuading China’s Communist Party…
Chinese Communist Party starts dismantling ‘Zero COVID’ policy after widespread insurrection across China
For years now, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government insisted that his “Zero COVID” policy would “stand the test of history,” and…
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives: ‘The clock has struck midnight in China for Apple’
Apple and China have been tied at the hip for decades, but, despite documented human rights abuses and actual genocide, it took…
Apple looks to diversify some iPad production from China to India
Apple is speaking with Indian officials about relocating some iPad manufacturing in the country as U.S.-Chinese relations sour and the CCP’s…
Better late than never: Apple accelerates plans to move production out of China
In recent weeks, Apple has accelerated plans to shift some of its production outside China, long the dominant country in the company’s supply…
Apple CEO Cook dodges questions about China protests; Enes Kanter Freedom: ‘Shame on him’
Apple CEO Tim Cook is taking heat after refusing to answer questions from a Capitol Hill reporter on the protests in China. “Shame on him…”
Apple’s crippling dependence on Communist China can no longer be ignored
Apple depends on a small number of very large factories in China and Taiwan for much of its product assembly. But, harsh CCP-imposed…
Foxconn is paying Chinese workers unhappy over COVID restrictions $1,400 to leave
Workers protesting yet another futile round of the CCP’s quixotic “Zero COVID” lockdowns at Foxconn’s “iPhone City” assembly campus…
Foxconn iPhone factory workers clash with police at COVID-restricted plant in China
Foxconn workers at the world’s biggest iPhone assembly plant clashed with police after protests erupted at the factory in central China…
Apple assembler Foxconn looks to quadruple Indian workforce in next 24 months
Apple assembler Foxconn plans to quadruple the workforce at its iPhone factory in India over two years due to COVID lockdowns in China…
JD.com: Apple sold over $140M in products in first minute of China’s Singles Day final day
Alibaba Group opted not to disclose the final sales tally of its annual Singles Day shopping festival for the first time since it started…
Apple limits AirDrop in China to aid CCP censorship, thwart protestors
Apple has limited the AirDrop wireless file-sharing feature on iPhones in China after the mechanism was used by protesters opposed…
Analyst sees silver lining in Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro supply issue; maintains $200 price target
In a statement released on Sunday, Apple warned that it expects lower than anticipated shipments of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max…
CCP’s ‘Zero COVID’ policy hits vulnerable China-dependent Apple
Apple warned that it expects lower than anticipated shipments of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max than previously anticipated following…
Apple warns: Due to China’s COVID lockdowns, expect lower iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max shipments previously anticipated
Apple expects lower than anticipated shipments of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max than previously anticipated following a significant…
Apple adds Pegatron as new iPhone 14 supplier in India
Apple contract manufacturer Pegatron, which is based in Taiwan, has begun assembling the company’s latest iPhone 14 model in India, just…
Tim Cook firmly latched Apple onto China’s CCP teat. What’s his plan for weaning it off?
In 2016, Apple’s “Operations Genius,” Tim Cook, secretly signed a secret agreement with the Chinese Communist Party worth more than $275B…
Apple turns away from China
Apple is turning away from China and towards place like Vietnam, India, and elsewhere to diversify its supply chain, especially in…
MacBooks likely to be ‘Assembled in Thailand’ as Apple diversifies from China dependence
As Apple continues to look to free itself from overwhelming dependence on China, the company is looking to diversify MacBook assembly…
Apple powers Taiwan export orders back to growth in August
Taiwan’s export orders expanded in August – unexpectedly to analysts – on strong demand for technology and new consumer electronics…
Apple’s iCloud operator in China warns of paralyzing COVID lockdown
The Chinese Communist Party’s latest quixotic COVID lockdown has virtually paralyzed a city of 6 million in China, forcing Apple…
Apple exec resigns from board of Chinese ride-hailing company Didi
Apple’s vice president of corporate development, Adrian Perica, has resigned from Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Global’s board…
Apple supplier TSMC showing ‘excellent’ progress on Arizona chip plant, governor says
Taiwanese chip maker TSM, a major Apple supplier, is making “excellent” progress building its new plant in Arizona, the governor said…
Apple’s Mac supply has normalized – JPMorgan
Apple’s Mac supply chain challenges due to the Chinese Communist Party’s quixotic COVID-19 lockdowns have finally normalized, according to…
