It’s well known that Apple has been shifting away from an existence as a hardware-centric firm toward a services model. It’s a model that offers bundled subscriptions and content delivered at every step. And, perhaps, every jog. Or rep at the gym. If the ambition...
The founder of Spotify made a visit to Brussels to pressure the European Commission to accelerate a case against Apple’s reported “anti-competitive conduct,” the Financial Times wrote Wednesday (Sept. 7). Daniel Ek, the Swedish billionaire who owns Spotify, said he spoke with competition commissioner Margrethe...
For Apple, hardware is but a backdrop in a way, a springboard toward recurring revenues and the further cementing of an ecosystem that revolves around services, including financial services. We’ll see more evidence of that strategy on Wednesday (Sept. 7), when the technology giant hosts...
Apple will almost double its workforce in the digital ad business. The tech giant currently has around 250 people on the ad platforms team, and it wants to fill 216 more positions, the Financial Times (FT) reported. The news comes about a year and a...
For the first time since Apple launched the iPhone 2G in 2007, more smartphone users in the U.S. are now carrying iOS devices instead of Android. Based on the number of phones in use — also known as the active installed base — Apple broke...
Know when you hear a great song and wish you knew the title? That’s why the Shazam app was invented in 2002, but it’s only part of the reason Apple acquired the song recognition tech in 2017 for a reported $400 million. Now, it’s celebrating...
Apple is reportedly moving some of its iPhone 14 production to India following the product’s rollout in China as the manufacturing gap between the two countries continues to narrow. Aiming to shorten the production time of its new iPhone releases from nine months to six, Apple...
Apple will hold an event Sept. 7 for the unveiling of its iPhone 14 line, sources told Bloomberg. This will see the newest version of the tech giant’s flagship phone, and will see the beginning of a “busy” product season this fall, with new Macs,...
Apple has reportedly told suppliers to make 90 million new iPhones this year, in line with 2021 production levels, a report from Seeking Alpha said. This comes with the company trying to build 220 million iPhones total in 2022, which is the same amount built...
