Apple has appointed Isabel Ge Mahe its new managing director of Greater China. Formally the company's vice president of wireless technologies, Mahe's new role will have her leading Apple's team in China, and reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook and COO Jeff Williams. "Apple is strongly committed to invest and grow in China, and we are thrilled that Isabel will be bringing her experience...
Apple may not be competing in the VR market, but the company's CEO Tim Cook says the company is very interested in exploring the world of AR. Or, at least, he sure sees it as a "big area, like the smartphone." Cook's latest comments come in an interview with The Independent. The CEO has made similar comments in the past about AR, suggesting the company is working on something big. I...
"Views," the latest album from Drake, has become the first to surpass 1 billion streams on Apple Music. Drake announced the news on Instagram with a photo of him alongside Apple CEO Tim Cook, iTunes chief Eddy Cue, and Apple Music's head of content, Larry Jackson. Apple gifted Drake a celebratory plaque to mark the milestone, which also serves as an advert for Apple Music. Drake has...
Apple’s latest keynote came and went without any mention of in-house virtual reality or augmented reality products, but the company says its still interested in both. In a new interview, CEO Tim Cook revealed that the company is particularly excited in AR and continues to “invest a lot” in the technology. “There’s virtual reality and there’s augmented reality — both of these are...
Apple CEO Tim Cook is dedicated to India. Very dedicated. The company, which recently announced that it's going to open offices in India with more than 4,000 jobs dedicated to working on Apple Maps, said that it's going to stay in India for the foreseeable future and far beyond. "We are in India for the next thousand years," Tim Cook said, according to TheHindu. "Our horizon is very...
Apple CEO Tim Cook is set to visit Beijing this month to meet with various government officials. The meetings follow a drop in iPhone sales in Apple's latest earnings report and its first decline in year-over-year growth in over a decade. The trip also follows China's decision to block key Apple products, including iTunes Movies and the iBooks Store. Cook will apparently meet with...
Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke with CNBC‘s Jim Cramer on Mad Money Monday evening. He was no doubt appearing on air to address some of the concerns investors had following Apple’s earnings release last week. While Apple had a great quarter falling in line with its own guidance and delivering $10 billion in profits, it still posted its first year-over-year revenue decline since 2003. There’s...
Apple engineers would rather quit their jobs than be forced to create an iPhone backdoor, according to a new report. Some are already discussing how they will respond should the FBI win its ongoing battle with Apple. As you probably know, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies want Apple to create a way into an iPhone used by a San Bernardino shooter. The only way to do that,...
Tim Cook has opened up about Apple's battle against the FBI in a new interview, during which he describes an iOS backdoor as "the software equivalent of cancer." The CEO goes on to explain why Apple is against hacking its own platform in the first video ever filmed in his own office. The interview with ABC News comes one week after Cook published an open letter that explained Apple's...
FBI director James Comey, above, has responded to an open letter from Apple CEO Tim Cook with one of his own, which argues that unlocking the iPhone that was used by a San Bernardino gunman would not set a dangerous precedent for the future. Instead, Comey insists it is about justice for the victims who lost their life or were seriously injured during the attack. "We owe them a...