• Apple keen on boosting investment in Vietnam: CEO Tim Cook

    Cook expressed his expectation that the two sides can continue working together toward even greater achievements in the future

  • Tim Cook: Apple CEO Tim Cook says looking into possibility of building manufacturing facility in Indonesia

    Apple Inc will look into the possibility of building a manufacturing facility in Indonesia, its CEO said on Wednesday after meeting President Joko Widodo. Apple CEO Tim Cook arrived in Jakarta on Tuesday, after visiting Vietnam. He met with Jokowi, as the president popularly known, and will be inaugurating an academy for Apple developers on the island of Bali. "We talked about the president's desire to see manufacturing in the country, and it is something that we will look at," Cook told...

  • Tim Cook visits Singapore as Apple invests in a $250 million AI campus expansion

    CEO Tim Cook has continued his tour of Asia by visiting Singapore, where he announced that Apple will spend $250 million to expand its existing campus there. Apple Marina Bay Sands store, Singapore Apple does not release Tim Cook's schedule in advance, but following visits to Vietnam and then Indonesia, the CEO is concluding what appears to be a week-long Asia trip. His apparently final stop is a two-day visit to Singapore, and at the same time Apple has announced a significant expansion...

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    Apple iPhone sales drop 19% in China as demand for Huawei smartphones soars, research says

    Apple saw sales of its iPhones fall 19.1% in the first three months of the year, according to data from Counterpoint Research.

  • Tim Cook hints at new Apple Pencil 3 coming next month – here’s what the rumors say

    Apple on Tuesday announced that it will hold a special event on May 7. Although the company doesn’t usually discuss the topics of the event, the invitation artwork makes it clear that it will be all about iPad – as we can see an Apple Pencil in it. To add fuel to the fire, Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted that we’ll see at least a new Apple Pencil 3 next month. more

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    Apple will 'look at' manufacturing in Indonesia, CEO Cook says, as China diversification push continues

    Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company will "look at" manufacturing in Indonesia, following a meeting with the country's President Joko Widodo.

  • Sen. Rick Scott says he's a China hawk. But he's made lots of money with China-related investments.

    In November, ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) issued a press release casting himself as a fierce opponent of China. It declared, “Since being elected to the U.S. Senate, Senator Scott has introduced dozens of bills to punish Communist China for its increased military aggression, continued […]

  • Apple Event on May 7 Has Six Artistic Logos as Tim Cook Hints at New Apple Pencil

    Apple is promoting its upcoming "Let loose" event using six artistic logos amid the expectation that a new Apple Pencil is to be announced. The six different logos cycle through randomly upon refreshing Apple's homepage. In 2018, Apple promoted its "There's more in the making" event that saw the introduction of the radically redesigned iPad Pro and second-generation Apple Pencil using more than 350 one-of-a-kind Apple logos. The artistic logos likely allude to the illustration and...

  • Tim Cook makes diplomatic noises about Apple manufacturing in Indonesia

    Tim Cook made a diplomatic comment about the possibility of Apple manufacturing in Indonesia, after the country’s president pressed him on the issue. The country is an important market for Apple, as the world’s 4th most populous country after China, India, and the US. Indonesia is one of a growing number of countries to use the threat of import tariffs as a way to encourage foreign companies to invest in the local economy, and Apple has so far used an indirect method to escape these ...

  • Tim Cook promises Indonesia that Apple will consider manufacturing there

    Apple CEO Tim Cook has told Indonesia's President that the company will look at the feasibility of opening manufacturing in the country, though he hasn't said whether that means the iPhone. Tim Cook (right) with photographer Sofyan Pratama in Indonesia Following his two-day visit to Vietnam, in which he committed Apple to expanding its manufacturing there, Tim Cook met with Indonesia's President Joko Widodo over similar issues. Apple does not currently have manufacturers in Indonesia,...

  • Apple says it was ordered to remove WhatsApp and Threads from China App Store

    Apple users in China won't be able to find and download WhatsApp and Threads from the App Store anymore, according to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. The company said it pulled the apps from the store to comply with orders it received from Cyberspace Administration, China's internet regulator, "based on [its] national security concerns." It explained to the publications that it's "obligated to follow the laws in the countries where [it operates], even when [it disagrees]." The...

  • Apple's Regular Mac Base RAM Boosts Ended When Tim Cook Took Over

    Apple used to regularly increase the base memory of its Macs up until 2011, the same year Tim Cook was appointed CEO, charts posted on Mastodon by David Schaub show. Earlier this year, Schaub generated two charts: One showing the base memory capacities of Apple's all-in-one Macs from 1984 onwards, and a second depicting Apple's consumer laptop base RAM from 1999 onwards. Both charts were recently resurfaced by the Accidental Tech Podcast. The graphs show that Apple tended to increase the...