Though Apple’s services, wearables, and accessories products are still showing healthy growth, the iPhone has been its cash cow for a decade…
Tag: R&D
Apple supplier Japan Display made one crucial mistake
Japan Display Inc.’s decision to cut staff, reduce pay and take more write-offs was the inevitable result of management’s short-sighted strategy…
Apple to spend $507 million to set up two more research centers, boost investment in in China
Apple Inc. has revealed plans to set up two more research centers and boost investment in China…
Apple has to start addressing these problems in 2017
Apple had some real problems in 2016 and, if the company wants to stay at the peak of relevancy…
Apple’s skyrocketing R&D investments explained
Even though a good chunk of that now quite large research-and-development budget is probably being spent in
What does Apple get for $10 billion of R&D?
Apple seems to have some big things cooking up…
Analysts: Apple’s innovation will pay off… eventually
Despite a third straight quarter of lower year-over-year sales, Apple is looking ahead to some…
Why Apple likes to keep so many secrets
Apple is a notoriously secretive company, choosing to keep things under wraps until it has a product ready…
Google/Alphabet: Flushing away billions
Google/Alphabet is a modern-day Bell Telephone that is wasting billions of dollars on fruitless research projects..
Apple’s research in micro-LED displays highlights a fundamental strategic shift
Breakthroughs such as micro-LEDs are not made in a day, or even a few years…
Apple’s massive R&D expenditure indicates myriad projects in the pipeline
Famously secretive Apple doesn’t tip its hand on new stuff, but its fiscal second quarter report…
Is Apple underinvesting in R&D?
When compared to other big tech companies such as Alphabet, Microsoft, and Facebook, Apple Inc. invests substantially less money than its peers….
Apple gets much more bang for its R&D buck than Google and other tech companies
Steve Jobs said in 1998 that “innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have.”
Apple to spend a massive $15 billion in capital expenditures this fiscal year
Over the past half decade or so, Apple’s capital spending has utterly skyrocketed…
Apple’s new Japanese R&D center to focus on vehicles, materials, and health
Alongside an expanding retail presence…
Apple ramps up R&D spending
As rumors swirl about new Apple products that may be on the way…
Apple is planning something huge
One thing is for certain: Money doesn’t lie…
Apple set new all-time R&D spending record last quarter
Without question, Apple certainly has some big plans ahead…
Graphene: The totally amazing wonder material that could revolutionize technology
It conducts heat 10 times better than copper and electricity 100 times better than silicon, is transparent like plastic…
Apple just spent $2.8 billion on the next big thing
The $2.8 billion doubles what Apple spent for all of 2013…
The Apple game: New categories vs. ecosystem development
Putting hopes for Apple’s future on a magical New Category misunderstands…
Apple’s R&D expenditures: 1995-2013
For a company that makes as much money as Apple…
Apple’s R&D spending, acquisitions point to multiple new products
The ongoing saga of Apple (AAPL) should go down in history as an resounding vindication…
Apple’s 2013 R&D spending up 32 percent vs. last year, 87 percent over 2011
Whatever Apple is working on, it’s clearly requiring additional money…
How Siri could kill Apple or something
Siri could signal the beginning of the end for Apple…
Tim Cook: Apple is ‘looking at new categories’ for potential products
In 2012, Apple grew more than Google, Microsoft, Dell, HP and BlackBerry combined…
Microsoft and the Infinite Monkey Theorem of R&D spending
Based on Microsoft’s stunningly high R&D spending levels, shareholders…
Apple spent 3.4 billion on R&D in FY12, up $1 billion – the largest increase in company history
Apple spent $3.4 billion in research and development during its 2012 fiscal year…
Apple reportedly interested in Russian R&D facility
Apple is one of several parties in talks with Russia’s Skolkovo technology…
Apple chooses Israel for first R&D center outside Cupertino
New details on Apple’s plans to establish a new development center in Israel…
Apple to build semiconductor R&D center in Israel, sources say
Apple Inc. has decided to open a development center in Israel focusing on semiconductors…
How Apple disrupted its markets on a shoe-string R&D budget
Apple focused its R&D efficiently, putting the rest of large tech to shame…
Apple’s R&D advantage: Unmatched bang for the buck
Apple turned the world upside down on a ‘shoe string’ R&D budget…