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Apple has made nearly $100 billion so far this year

Enlarge / Adding the M1 chip to the iPad Air didn’t move the needle much for the iPad lineup’s revenue this quarter. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple reported its earnings for Q2 2022 to investors on Thursday. Once again, the company beat analyst expectations and posted massive revenues and profits across most of its product lines. […]

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Tim Cook delivers speech railing against “data industrial complex,” sideloading

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at the IAPP 2022 conference. (credit: Apple) Apple CEO Tim Cook took to the stage at the annual International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) conference on Tuesday to talk about privacy, security, ad tracking, and sideloading. Calling privacy “one of the most essential battles of our time,” Cook […]

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Tim Cook delivers speech railing against “data industrial complex,” sideloading

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at the IAPP 2022 conference. (credit: Apple) Apple CEO Tim Cook took to the stage at the annual International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) conference on Tuesday to talk about privacy, security, ad tracking, and sideloading. Calling privacy “one of the most essential battles of our time,” Cook […]

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Apple just had the biggest holiday quarter in its history

Enlarge / The back of the iPhone 13. (credit: Samuel Axon) Neither a global pandemic nor a supply chain crunch can stop Apple, based on the company’s Q1 2022 earnings report. Released today, the report showed Apple smashing many of its sales records once again, with $123.9 billion in overall revenue and $34.6 billion in […]

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After months-long battle, Apple takes the due date off its return-to-office plans

Enlarge / Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, California. (credit: Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images) It’s been a rocky road for Apple’s return-to-office plans. Over the past few months, we’ve reported on numerous stops and starts, but the industry behemoth seems to have come to the hardest stop yet, according to a Bloomberg report. According to […]

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Report: Apple CEO Tim Cook engineered a secret $275 billion deal with China

Apple CEO Tim Cook announcing new products in the company’s April 20, 2021, livestream. (credit: Nathan Mattise / Ars Technica) Today, The Information published a lengthy report detailing Apple CEO Tim Cook’s efforts to establish strong relationships between Apple and Chinese government officials and agencies. Citing both interviews and direct access to internal Apple documents […]

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Apple employees will return to the office this February, leaked Cook email says

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook. (credit: Chris Foresman) Few large companies have had a more contentious internal argument over remote work amid the pandemic than Apple, but it is moving ahead with bringing many employees back into physical offices starting in February. As previously reported by CNBC, Apple CEO Tim Cook, in an email to […]

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Despite huge iPhone sales, Apple misses the mark in Q4 earnings report

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook. (credit: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images) In its quarterly call with investors today, Apple revealed that its revenue grew in all of its businesses and product categories, but the numbers weren’t enough to impress investors who were expecting even bigger gains. The company’s overall revenue grew by 29 […]