For decades now, Apple has facd an ever-escalating series of challenges in China, from fake stores and factory protests to tightening…
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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…
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 already sold out of $549 new AirPods Max
Apple on Tuesday announced AirPods Max, innovative wireless headphones with an over-ear design and high-fidelity sound. They quickly sold out.
Tim Cook and Apple bet everything on China. Oops.
More people are now asking if Apple CEO Tim Cook has made Apple too dependent by betting everything on China. Cook, since joining Apple more than 20 years ago…
Has Apple CEO Tim Cook made Apple too dependent on China?
Apple today seeing the biggest losses on the Dow. This has led some observers to ask if Apple CEO Tim Cook has made Apple too dependent on China…
Heat, not dust, the enemy of Apple’s butterfly keyboard design?
Apple’s divisive butterfly keyboard mechanism has been back in the news…
At Apple, Steve Jobs divided people into 2 groups: ‘Insanely great’ and ‘crappy’ – Guy Kawasaki
I’ve had a long and exciting journey since I first started working at Apple in 1983…
The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks
Apple keep insisting that only a ‘small number of customers have problems’ with the MacBook keyboards…
Apple CEO Tim Cook, one-time ‘operations genius,’ is a failure at operations
Operations are supposed to be what Tim Cook does best…
Imagining Apple’s post-iPhone future
Apple’s reported plans to cut iPhone production by 10 percent in the first quarter of 2019…
Is the cult of Apple over? Tim Cook faces a struggle to revive the spark
Apple customers have previously been known for an almost fanatical devotion…
Tim Cook’s defining moment as Apple CEO
How Mr Cook and his team respond to the iPhone’s current crisis will reveal exactly what kind of…
2019 is make or break for Apple as CEO Tim Cook tries to save his legacy
Cook and his management team failed to properly guide investors to slowing global demand for its most important product…
Investors’ rights law firm investigates Apple’s earnings cut for ‘potential securities fraud’
Apple and/or its executives may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public…
If Tim Cook’s all-hands meeting doesn’t fix Apple’s pricing, it’s pointless
As yesterday’s surprise announcement of a significant holiday revenue shortfall made clear…
CEO Cook issues memo to employees after Apple slashes revenue outlook for the first time in almost two decades
CEO Tim Cook has issued a memo to Apple employees after Apple slashed revenue outlook for the first time in almost two decades…
Apple’s earnings warning means CEO Tim Cook now has a major credibility problem
Apple CEO Tim Cook and his management team should read the coverage of their mind-blowing warning…
Loup Ventures: We continue to expect AAPL to outperform the rest of FAANG in 2019
Apple reissued lower guidance for the Dec-18 quarter (8% below Street expectations), citing soft iPhone sales in China…
Open thread: Does Apple need new leadership?
Does Apple need new leadership?
Apple went rotten after Steve Jobs’ death, former engineer claims in lawsuit
Apple turned against customers and its own employees after the death of co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs…
Samsung’s Wireless Charging Duo is a poor man’s Apple AirPower
Remember AirPower? Apple had big plans for the charging mat…
Apple’s long-delayed AirPower charging mat due in September; includes custom Apple chip running stripped down version of iOS
Apple engineers hoped to launch the charger by June, but…
Apple CEO Tim Cook plummets in Glassdoor’s tech CEO rankings
Glassdoor’s new Top 100 CEOs list has some bad news for two industry giants…
Will the 2019 Mac Pro be powered by an Apple ARM-based chip?
Apple’s new Mac Pro won’t arrive until 2019…
Apple: No new Mac Pro until 2019
A year ago, I visited the Apple campus in Cupertino to figure out where the hell the new Mac Pro was…
Apple reportedly has no plans for major updates to MacBook product line in 2018
Apple is expected to shift a major portion of its MacBook orders to Foxconn Electronics…
Apple appoints veteran executive to revive sluggish India sales as supply issues hamper iPhone X launch
In a sudden development, Apple has appointed veteran company executive Michel Coulomb…
Apple sells out of AirPods amid holiday shopping season
Apple appears to have sold out of stock of AirPods in numerous countries around the world…
Apple and home audio
Apple’s HomePod, a smart speaker system, powered by Siri, was supposed to debut this month for $349…
Echo Dot was Amazon’s Black Friday – Cyber Monday bestseller as Apple’s delayed HomePod waits for 2018 release date
Just days after Apple delayed its HomePod speaker and personal assistant into 2018…
Apple TV 4K 64GB model supply tight, new orders will likely miss Christmas delivery
Supplies of the 64GB Apple TV 4K have apparently dried up, with only limited stock available…
Apple’s late, delayed, limited HomePod is looking more and more like something I don’t want
When HomePod was announced at WWDC in June, it seemed like Apple was finally jumping head first into…
Apple started working on HomePod in 2012, so why are they so late to the smart speaker market?
Apple’s forthcoming HomePod won’t see the light of day until ‘early 2018,’ which will be nearly six years…
Sonos speakers get smart with Amazon’s Alexa
I’m in love…
Why Apple’s HomePod is three years behind Amazon’s Echo
Apple Inc. audio engineers had been working on an early version of the HomePod speaker for about two years…
Under ‘operations genius’ Tim Cook, product delays and other problems are no longer unusual for Apple
Christmas will be a little disappointing for some Apple fans…
Apple delays HomePod release to early 2018
Apple said on Friday that it’s delaying the launch of its HomePod smart speaker until next year…
Analyst: Apple’s iPhone supercycle morphs into a ‘super-long’ iPhone cycle
“What had been thought to be a ‘super cycle’ for the iPhone, is now a ‘super-long cycle’ as sales…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: The ‘operations genius’ who never has enough products to sell at launch
Apple Inc. has lost its supply chain mojo…
2017 is the year of the Mac desktop, and that’s a good thing
This year, one message you could have easily taken away from Apple’s WWDC keynote…
Apple CEO Tim Cook plummets 45 spots in employee ratings
Apple CEO Tim Cook plummeted 45 spots from #8 in 2016 down to #53 this year in the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards…
