Apple showed the technology industry’s resilience amid the pandemic, reporting a
better-than-expected 11% increase in quarterly sales as it benefited from strong
demand for apps and work-from-home devices.
Apple helped build and sustain the modern semiconductor industry. Now, the tech
giant is upending it with a plan to start shipping Mac computers with its
in-house processors by the end of this year.
The tech giant is ending a partnership that rejuvenated the Mac computer over
the past 15 years, in a split aimed at tightening Apple’s control over its
products, customers and software developers.
As Apple gets ready to report its 2020 Q1 earnings, the Wall Street Journal has
switched its gears from incessantly claiming that the company was ‘headed for a
prolonged slump’ to backhandedly acknowledging that its coverage of Apple has
for years been totally wrong. But, it has yet to take responsi…
Apple procurement executive Tony Blevins’s job is to stare down suppliers and
slash prices to the bone. It’s a role increasingly vital to Apple as its iPhone
sales slow and the company protects its high margins and status as an operations
juggernaut.
Apple is making its new Mac Pro computer in China, shifting abroad production of
what had been its only major device assembled in the U.S., even as trade
tensions escalate between the U.S. and China.