Financial News on Apple Computer

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• Apple is reported to be reducing iPhone Air production by one million units, amid underwhelming sales. A separate report earlier today claimed that Samsung has canceled plans to release a successor to its own iPhone Air rival, the Galaxy S25 Edge, due to low sales.
  - MacRumors, 17 October 2025

• Apple greatly reduces iPhone Air production plans, boosts other 17 models: sources. Overall sales of new lineup defies weak market and Trump's tax/tariff war.
  - Nikkei Asia, 17 October 2025

• Apple received a relatively rare bearish analyst rating on Friday, as Jefferies warned that expectations surrounding how fast customers will upgrade their iPhones had become excessive
  - Bloomberg, 03 October 2025

• Apple's AirPods Pro 3 are impossible to repair, and earn a score of 0 in a teardown by iFixit
  - MacRumors, 01 October 2025

• Intel is in preliminary talks to obtain an investment from Apple, as part of a USA-backed comeback
  - Zero Hedge, 24 September 2025

• Electronics giant in Zhōngguó, Xiaomi, challenges Samsung based in South Korea, with new smartphones and appliances. Xiaomi, which is the third-largest smartphone player in Europe, has been looking to expand globally over the past few years.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 24 September 2025

• Apple takes control of all core processor chips in iPhone Air with new architecture to prioritize AI, with future phones relying less on processor chips from Broadcom, Qualcom and other companies
  - Comcast's CNBC, 21 September 2025

• The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era. The barely there iPhone Air is in line with trends in tech, design and art - unsullied by thought, risk or humor. Minimalism sells us the notion that we can be masters of our environment, but the truth is, we have never had less control over our destiny.
  - The Guardian, 20 September 2025

• The iPhone Air is Apple's most impressive phone in years. But most people should not buy it - it has a smaller battery, a single camera and tends to heat up quickly - at a higher price. The iPhone 17 is better at $200 less.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 September 2025

• Apple CEO Tim Cook explains why Apple is investing heavily in a glass factory owned by Corning
  - Comcast's CNBC, 14 September 2025

• Why Apple is sidestepping the insanity of Silicon Valley's AI bloodsport [KM: that will lose trillions and kill millions of jobs]. Why? Apple does not like to offer uselessness. Apple has not found a reliable use case for its AI in consumer products. And neither has anyone else - at least, not to the degree needed to justify the massive valuations and investment dollars they are pouring into these projects.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 10 September 2025

• Inside Sporify's plot to take down Apple. Spotify's rebellion against an App Store 'tax' over the past decade has significantly weakened Apple's grip on the mobile world.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 September 2025

• Digital dopamine is addicting people in the USA. Corporations are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to addict you to cellphone apps. The drug traffickers use social media, pornography, online gambling and other apps to quick, addictive, hits of dopamine, keeping you addicted to their apps. AI will make these addictions worse.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 September 2025

• South Korea has passed a new law banning the use of addictive mobile phones and smart devices in school classrooms nationwide. More than a third of teens also say they struggle to control the amount of time they spend scrolling through addictive videos on social media. And parents fear that this is getting in the way of everything else they could be doing with their time, such as real learning.
  - BBC, 27 August 2025

• South Korea has passed a new law banning the use of addictive mobile phones and smart devices in school classrooms nationwide. More than a third of teens also say they struggle to control the amount of time they spend scrolling through addictive videos on social media. And parents fear that this is getting in the way of everything else they could be doing with their time, such as real learning.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 August 2025

• So long to the dream jobs of the technology world. It is the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 24 August 2025

• As smartphones get smarter, do humans get dumber? A study found that simply having a smartphone nearby reduced the mind's ability to access and process information - even if the phone was off or placed in a bag.
  - Zero Hedge, 22 August 2025

• Last year, I received the best student reviews of my undergraduate course on medical issues at the University of Pennsylvania. I only made one change in teaching: I banned all addictive cellphones and computer-based note taking in the classroom.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 August 2025

• Samsung taking market share from Apple in the USA, as foldable phones gain more consumer demand
  - Comcast's CNBC, 17 August 2025

• Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence start up xAI will sue Apple for allegedly favoring AI competitors in its App Store in what he called a breach of antitrust regulations
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 12 August 2025

• Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence start up xAI will sue Apple for allegedly favoring AI competitors in its App Store in what he called a breach of antitrust regulations
  - Zero Hedge, 12 August 2025

• Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence start up xAI will sue Apple for allegedly favoring AI competitors in its App Store in what he called a breach of antitrust regulations
  - Comcast's CNBC, 12 August 2025

• Motorola's failure to make a cellphone in the USA around 2013 shows the economic idioicy of Trump's tax/tariff trade wars related to technology. Motorola's failure is evidence of the challenges in making cellphones in the USA. Proximity to crucial suppliers and lower labor costs are only part of the problem; it is the gap in necessary skills and the difficulty in filling factory jobs that makes it so challenging to bring smartphone production to the USA.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 04 August 2025

• A new paper just found something horrifying about kids who get phones early in life - they are far more likely to suffer severe mental health problems down the line. [KM: But the rich do get richer from this cellphone use.]
  - Futurism, 02 August 2025

• Apple retreats in Zhōngguó, as it closes its flagship store that it opened in 2008, as iPhone sales in Zhōngguó continue to decline
  - Zero Hedge, 31 July 2025

• The econonmic drivers of Apple's exploding valuation is under threat. Payments from Google, and [drug trafficking] revenue from the App store are huge profit generators that could shrink.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 29 July 2025

• Apple is closing a retail store in Dalian, marking Apple's first shutdown of a directly managed outlet in mainland Zhōngguó amid struggling iPhone sales. Meanwhile, Huawei rises above Xiaomi for the biggest share of the market for smartphones (18% versus 17%).
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 28 July 2025

• Huawei becomes the leading seller of smartphones in Zhōngguó for the first time in 4 years, with about 18% of the marketplace
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 16 July 2025

• The Pentagon will keep making socialist investments in the critical minerals industry in the USA
  - Thomson's Reuters, 15 July 2025

• MP Materials surges 10% after Apple announces it will invest $500 million in the rare earths mining company (adding to a socialist investment by the Defense Department)
  - Zero Hedge, 15 July 2025

• MP Materials surges 10% after Apple announces it will invest $500 million in the rare earths mining company (adding to a socialist investment by the Defense Department)
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 15 July 2025

• Trump advisor Peter Navarro, an 'economist' who has never run a big business, insults the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, for not moving, more quickly, production of iPhones out of Zhōngguó
  - Comcast's CNBC, 07 July 2025

• Smartphone shipments/sales in Zhōngguó plummet over 20% in May
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 05 July 2025

• Microsoft has lost about 400 million users of its Windows operating system in the past few years, as more people use cellphones and tablets, and because of the costs and strict requirements to upgrade to new versions of Windows
  - Toms Hardware, 01 July 2025

• Apple has reworked the terms and conditions for developers that use its highly lucrative App Store in the European Union in a bid to avoid racking up more fines under the EU's digital antitrust law.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 June 2025

• Apple adopts the price discount practices of other cellphone companies in Zhōngguó, to lift sales amid heated local competition. Consumers in Beijing and Shanghai can avail themselves of discounts of up to US$278 on select models of Apple devices, including the iPhone.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 24 June 2025

• Apple Used Zhōngguó to make a huge profit. What Zhōngguó got in return is scarier. In his new book, "Apple in Zhōngguó", Patrick McGee argues that by training an army of manufacturers in a "ruthless authoritarian state", Apple has earned billions while creating an existential vulnerability for the entire world.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 June 2025

• Apple was sued on Friday by shareholders in a proposed securities fraud class action that accused it of downplaying how long it needed to integrate advanced artificial intelligence into its Siri voice assistant, hurting iPhone sales and its stock price.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 20 June 2025

• Samsung plans to compete with rivals in Zhōngguó for thin foldable phones as Apple is said to also want to produce a foldable phone
  - Comcast's CNBC, 19 June 2025

• Smartphones have not made over lives completely miserable. Yet. Social media is causing huge harm on children, including their mental health, [KM: all so that rich social media companies can get richer].
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 June 2025

• A survey done by UBS finds that there will be "little growth" in smartphone units "over next few years"
  - Zero Hedge, 10 June 2025

• Shares of Apple drop 1% as it gives a presentation at an Internet conference, and as UBS warns on declining iPhone demand
  - Zero Hedge, 09 June 2025

• Apple Computer researchers have determined that state-of-the-art "reasoning" AI models like OpenAI's o3-mini, Gemini (with thinking mode-enabled), Claude 3.7, DeepSeek-R1 face complete performance collapse beyond certain complexity thresholds when tested on controllable puzzle environments. The finding raises questions about the hyped reasoning capabilities of large language models.
  - Apple Computer, 09 June 2025

• Xiaomi delivers another earnings beat on strong phone, car sales. The smartphone and electronics maker said its first-quarter net profit more than doubled from a year earlier to 10.92 billion yuan.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 28 May 2025

• National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said the Trump administration does not want to "harm Apple" with taxes/tariffs. Trump just wants to force Apple to build its iPhones in the USA, even if that makes no economic sense. Hassett is a conservative economist with little experience running for-profit businesses.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 27 May 2025

• Tim Cook, CEO of dopamine drug trafficker Apple, once Trump's technology 'whisperer', goes quiet as his influence fades. The CEO of Apple has gone from winning Trump's praise to drawing his ire, deepening the business woes of Apple in a very bad year.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 May 2025

• Shares of Apple are on an 8-day losing streak as Trump trade fracas intensifies - now at $195, watch these levels: support at 169 and 193, resistance at 215 and 237
  - Investopedia, 26 May 2025

• Shares of Apple, Tesla and Nvidia to trade as digital tokens on cryptocurency exchange Kraken, making it easier for criminal stock transactions to occur anonymously. The platform will offer overseas customers tokenized versions of more than 50 stocks and ETFs, since stocks trading is already a highly trustworthy environment not needing blockchain trust mechanisms.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 May 2025

• Is Trump's "Made in America" desire for iPhones -- a fantasy?
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 23 May 2025

• It will be difficult for Apple to manufacture iPhones in the USA because there is no robot technology in the USA for the insertion of "little screws" need to manufacture the iPhones, amongst other manufacturing problems
  - Thomson's Reuters, 23 May 2025

• Shares of Apple drop over 2% after Trump threatens Apple with a 25% tax/tariff on imports of iPhones from Zhōngguó and Bharat
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 23 May 2025

• Trump threatens Apple with a 25% tax/tariff on imports of iPhones from Zhōngguó and Bharat, if Apple doesn't start building iPhones in the USA
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 23 May 2025

• Trump threatens Apple with a 25% tax/tariff on imports of iPhones from Zhōngguó and Bharat, if Apple doesn't start building iPhones in the USA
  - Comcast's CNBC, 23 May 2025

• Apple and Bharat have invested years and billions of their dollars in teaming up against Zhōngguó. Bharat sees it as a strength. To Trump, it looks an opportunity for political exploitation, as Trump threatens Apple with a 25% tax/tariff on imports of iPhones from Zhōngguó and Bharat.
  - OBYT, 23 May 2025

• Trump's new tax/tariff threats send the stock markets down again, with the major stock indexes expected to open down 1% to 2%
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 23 May 2025

• Trump's new tax/tariff threats send the stock markets down again, with the major stock indexes expected to open down 1% to 2%
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 23 May 2025

• Xiaomi, based in Zhōngguó, claims its new Xring O1 cellphone processor rivals that of Apple's A18 Pro processor, at a lower cost. Xiaomi's new advanced cellphone is also $340 less expensive than Apple's iPhone 16.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 22 May 2025

• Xiaomi, based in Zhōngguó, claims its new Xring O1 cellphone processor rivals that of Apple's A18 Pro processor, at a lower cost. Xiaomi's new advanced cellphone is also $340 less expensive than Apple's iPhone 16.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 22 May 2025

• Why Apple still has not developed a useful AI system
  - Bloomberg, 18 May 2025

• The Trump administration is reportedly concerned about a deal to put AI technology from Alibaba on Apple's iPhones
  - Comcast's CNBC, 17 May 2025

• They paid $3,500 for Apple's Vision Pro headset. A year later, it still hurts. The mixed-reality headset launched with great promise, but all these buyers got were dirty looks and sore necks.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 16 May 2025

• Fortnite is now unavailable on iOS globally, Epic Games said Friday, after Apple blocked a bid to reinstate the popular game on the App Store in the USA. Epic Games submitted Fortnite to Apple's USA App Store last week, a month after a judge ruled the iPhone maker was not allowed to charge a commission on purchases that consumers make outside of an iOS app.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 16 May 2025

• Engaging in socialist industrial policy, Trump tells Apple that it doesn't want Apple to move iPhone production from Zhōngguó to Bharat, but instead move iPhone manufacturing to the more costly USA
  - Comcast's CNBC, 15 May 2025

• Engaging in socialist industrial policy, Trump tells Apple that it doesn't want Apple to move iPhone production from Zhōngguó to Bharat, but instead move iPhone manufacturing to the more costly USA
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 15 May 2025

• Engaging in socialist industrial policy, Trump tells Apple that it doesn't want Apple to move iPhone production from Zhōngguó to Bharat, but instead move iPhone manufacturing to the more costly USA
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 15 May 2025

• Apple reduces the prices of its iPhones in Zhōngguó by up to 33% amid tough competition
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 13 May 2025

• Meanwhile, in the USA, Apple considers raising iPhone prices, without blaming Trump's taxes/tariffs
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 May 2025

• Apple considers raising the prices of its iPhones, without blaming Trump's taxes/tariffs
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 May 2025

• Apple considers raising the prices of its iPhones, without blaming Trump's taxes/tariffs
  - Zero Hedge, 12 May 2025

• Teenagers with mental health disorders spend an extra hour on social media
  - Zero Hedge, 11 May 2025

• How dopamine drug-trafficker Apple Computer invested big, profited greatly, and sold itself to Zhōngguó
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 11 May 2025

• Dopamine drug-trafficker made over $10 billion in commissions from sales of apps at its USA App Store in 2024
  - TechCrunch, 10 May 2025

• Apple lied in court, having commissioned a sham report and lied on the stand to justify its App Store policies (though which its sells huge numbers of addictive apps), which could cast a long shadow on Apple's business.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 May 2025

• The existential crisis of Apple: can it build a future around AI? The iPhone maker has an uncertain path ahead: shiny but less smart hardware or a smarter Siri that turbocharges everything.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 May 2025

• Shares of Google plummet 7% after Apple's Services chief, Eddy Cue, says that AI will replace search engines and will be added to Apple's Safari browser
  - Comcast's CNBC, 07 May 2025

• Apple will not be able to continue avoiding price increases. The iPhone maker is absorbing $900 million in costs this quarter due to Trump's taxes/tariffs, but the hit to profit margins could still get worse.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 May 2025

• Could Apple exist without its ties to Zhōngguó? Probably Not. The world's most valuable company has become so reliant on suppliers and sales in Zhōngguó that it would be worth half as much or less without them.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 May 2025

• Apple delivers better than expected results for iPhone sales, and announces a $100 billion stock buyback
  - Investopedia, 01 May 2025

• Apple violated a court order issued in 2021 requiring it to open up the App Store to third-party payment options and must stop charging commissions on purchases outside its software marketplace, a federal judge said in a blistering ruling that referred the company to prosecutors for a possible criminal probe. The decision was a victory for Epic Games, which had sued Apple. The changes the company must now make could put a sizable dent in the double-digit billions of dollars in revenue the App Store generates each year. Apple is potentially facing another multibillion-dollar hit from losing payments Google makes to be the default search engine for its Safari browser, which is the subject of an ongoing Justice Department antitrust case against Google.
  - Bloomberg, 30 April 2025

• A federal court ruled that Apple was in "willful violation" of a 2021 injunction designed to allow iOS developers to steer customers to alternate payment processors for in-app purchases. In a scathing Wednesday night order, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers determined that Apple had engaged in a plan to "thwart the injunction's goals", and then engaged in an "obvious cover-up" to prevent that plan from being revealed.
  - Condé Nast's Ars Technica, 30 April 2025

• It is unrealistic to shift all assembly of iPhones, told be sold in the USA, from Zhōngguó to Bharat (to avoid Trump's taxes/tariffs), according to Apple analyst Craig Moffett, because the iPhone components would still be made in Zhōngguó
  - Comcast's CNBC, 27 April 2025

• Apple is reportedly planning to switch assembly of all iPhones for the USA market to Bharat as Apple seeks to reduce its reliance on a manufacturing base in Zhōngguó, amid Trump's tax/tariff trade war.
  - The Guardian, 25 April 2025

• $570,000,000 - The European Union fines Apple $570 million and Facebook $228 million, both companies for violating the EU's digital competition law.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 23 April 2025

• $228,000,000 - The European Union fines Apple $570 million and Facebook $228 million, both companies for violating the EU's digital competition law.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 23 April 2025

• Samsung will benefit more from Trump's tax/tariff trade war than Apple. Samsung, unlike Apple, doesn't rely heavily on Zhōngguó for smartphone production, with Samsung mostly relying on Vietname, Bharat or South Korea. Thus Samsung will not have to spend a lot of money adapting its supply chains.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 22 April 2025

• Apple lost its top spot in the smartphone market in Zhōngguó, dethroned by local rival Xiaomi as Beijing's consumption-boosting subsidies help buoy demand for cheaper products. Apple has dropped to 5th place with a 13% market share.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 April 2025

• Apple CEO Tim Cook's "cares about nothing else" product-wise, other than beating Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to a pair of truly [KM: misanthropic, socially-isolating] smart glasses
  - Jiaravanon's Fortune, 15 April 2025

• Apple rushes to increase iPhone production in Bharat and Vietnam, as Trump pauses most tariffs on Apple's imports from Zhōngguó
  - Zero Hedge, 14 April 2025

• How the USA lost its role as the world's manufacturing powerhouse. Trump says his tax/tariff plan will restore American manufacturing might, but economists are skeptical.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 April 2025

• An iPhone made in the USA: just very expensive, or completely impossible to do?
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 April 2025

• Sending more confusing trade signals to businesses in the USA, Commerce Secretary Lutnick announced on ABC's 'This Week' hat smartphones, computers, chips, and other consumer electronics may soon be subject to separate tariffs in a month or so, suggesting that the exemptions announced Friday evening are only temporary. This will include new tariffs on Apple's iPhones imported from Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 13 April 2025

• Trump exempts smartphones and other electronics from reciprocal taxes/tariffs on imports from Zhōngguó, though 20% tariffs from long ago are still in effect
  - Zero Hedge, 12 April 2025

• Trump exempts smartphones and other electronics from reciprocal taxes/tariffs on imports from Zhōngguó, though 20% tariffs from long ago are still in effect
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 April 2025

• Apple was on the brink of a financial crisis, before Trump exempts smartphones and other electronics from reciprocal taxes/tariffs on imports from Zhōngguó
  - Bloomberg, 12 April 2025

• Democrats criticize Trump for giving an economic benefit to rich electronics companies by giving them an exemption on imports from Zhōngguó. Quoting Democratic Senator Warren of Massachusetts: "Trump's on-and-off-again tariffs leave the door wide open for billionaire corporations to suck up for corrupt deals -- while leaving [poorer] small businesses, farmers, and families without relief."
  - The Hill, 12 April 2025

• Apple is left without a 'life raft' as Trump's tax/tariff trade war with Zhōngguó intensifies. In 2024, 80% of the iPhones sold in the USA came from Zhōngguó. While the company has been working to diversify its supply chains, analysts say its left without any clear short-term options to quickly reduce the financial impact of taxes/tariffs.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 11 April 2025

• Apple has few incentives to start manufacturing iPhones in the USA, despite Trump's tax/tariff trade war with Zhōngguó
  - Associated Press, 10 April 2025

• Shares of Apple drop 5% as technology and semiconductor stocks fall after the stock market rally fades
  - Comcast's CNBC, 08 April 2025

• Trump wants Apple to make its iPhones in the USA. According to one analyst, "I do not think that is [economically possible]." One analyst said that iPhones would cost $3,500 if manufactured in the USA.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 08 April 2025

• Apple plans to manufacture more iPhones in Bharat as potential fix to Trump's taxes/tariffs. Taxes on products from Zhōngguó have created the worst three-day stock market decline for Apple in about 25 years.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 April 2025

• Apple's 3-day loss in market capitalization plummets by almost $640 billion, due to Trump's tax/tariff trade war
  - Comcast's CNBC, 07 April 2025

• Apple has no place to hide. Trump's taxes/tariffs on Zhōngguó are just one problem
  - Barron's, 05 April 2025

• "This could destroy Apple": shares of Apple plummet 10% after Trump's new taxes/tariffs are announced
  - Zero Hedge, 03 April 2025

• Tech stocks fell in late trading Wednesday after Trump announced new taxes/tariffs of between 10% and 49% on imported goods. Apple had the largest drop among technology companies, falling nearly 6% in extended trading. Nvidia, which manufactures chips in Taiwan and assembles its systems in México and elsewhere, fell 4%, while Tesla lost about 4.5%.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 02 April 2025

• Visa offers Apple about $100 million to take over credit card from Mastercard. Visa, Amex and Mastercard are all competing to be the network for Apple's credit card.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 02 April 2025

• $162,400,000 - The competition regulator in France fines Apple $162,400,000 over concerns the company abused its dominant position in mobile apps through the privacy measures it imposes on developers on its iPhone and s operating system.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 March 2025

• Apple's AI is not a failure. AI itself is the failure. Stop blaming the failure of AI adoption on users, and stop pushing AI intro products. "AI is still so much more of a science and research story than it is a product story."
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 27 March 2025

• Apple has been hit with a lawsuit in the federal district court in San Jose which claims that the company's promotion of now-delayed Apple Intelligence features constituted false advertising and unfair competition
  - Axios, 20 March 2025

• Shares of Apple decline on reports that CEO Tim Cook has lost confidence in the ability of AI head John Giannandrea to execute on product development
  - Zero Hedge, 20 March 2025

• Apple is reportedly losing over $1 billion/year on streaming service, as subscriptions remain well below those of Netflix
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 20 March 2025

• The European Commission on Wednesday announced antitrust charges on Google and ordered Apple to take steps to comply with the bloc's Digital Markets Act. European Union regulators are taking steps to rein in Google and Apple on antitrust charges, even as Trump threatens to hit the bloc with tariffs for alleged "overseas extortion" of the USA's technology giants.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 19 March 2025

• The European Commission on Wednesday announced antitrust charges on Google and ordered Apple to take steps to comply with the bloc's Digital Markets Act. European Union regulators are taking steps to rein in Google and Apple on antitrust charges, even as Trump threatens to hit the bloc with tariffs for alleged "overseas extortion" of the USA's technology giants.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 March 2025

• The European Commission on Wednesday announced antitrust charges on Google and ordered Apple to take steps to comply with the bloc's Digital Markets Act. European Union regulators are taking steps to rein in Google and Apple on antitrust charges, even as Trump threatens to hit the bloc with tariffs for alleged "overseas extortion" of the USA's technology giants.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 March 2025

• Apple has an AI technology problem that it cannot easily solve, as other companies outcompete Apple with their AI technology. Apple is also struggling with the looming threat of tariffs on imports from Zhōngguó, where important parts of iPhone are manufactured. iPhone sales in Zhōngguó are declining as well.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 19 March 2025

• The end of the iPhone. Apple used to be a great investment, but now is a terrible stock investment, as its business is disrupted by multiple competitors.
  - Risk Hedge, 14 March 2025

• Turmoil in the AI division of Apple reached new heights on Friday, with the company delaying promised updates to the Siri digital assistant for the foreseeable future.
  - Bloomberg, 07 March 2025

• Why can Xiaomi, a gadget company in Zhōngguó, can make an electric vehicle, and Apple can't?
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 March 2025

• How Xiaomi is threatening Ford and General Motors. Lei Jun set out to build the "Apple of Zhōngguó". Xiaomi's car business is now outpacing Tesla and Rivian.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 01 March 2025

• Shareholders of Apple reject by vote a proposal for Apple to end its diversity and equality policies, rejecting activists
  - Thomson's Reuters, 25 February 2025

• Apple vows to build AI data centers in Houston, and spend $500 billion in the USA, to make its products and apps more addictive
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 25 February 2025

• A test for Apple's new iPhone: beating rivals in Zhōngguó with home-field edge. Apple hopes the new device will allow it to become more competitive in Zhōngguó after the iPhone lost its spot as the bestselling smartphone in Zhōngguó.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 February 2025

• Shares of Alibaba rose over 6% as the e-commerce giant made progress in its partnership with Apple to launch AAI features in Zhōngguó
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 February 2025

• Alibaba's Qwen powers top 10 open-source models as AI technology from Zhōngguó goes beyond the success of Deepseek. The latest Open LLM Leaderboard by Hugging Face showed that all of the top-ranked models were trained and developed on the updated open-source versions of Qwen.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 11 February 2025

• Alibaba partners with Apple to develop AI features for iPhones. Apple want's Alibaba's Qwen AI model to make up for loss of Apple Intelligence on its iPhones in Zhōngguó.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 11 February 2025

• Apple supplier Skyworks Solutions saw its stock drop nearly 25% Thursday as the semiconductor firm said that it is losing business with the iPhone maker to one of its competitors, which analysts believe to be Broadcom
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 6 February 2025

• Zhōngguó finds leverage ahead of trade talks with Trump: Zhōngguó considers an investigation into the practices of Apple's App Store. "Regulators in Zhōngguó believe that Apple may be charging local developers unreasonably."
  - Zero Hedge, 05 February 2025

• Shares of Apple decline 3% on Monday, after Trump announced 10% tariffs on Zhōngguó, where Apple assembles most of its products
  - Comcast's CNBC, 03 February 2025

• $20,000,000 - Apple will pay $20 million to settle Apple Watch battery swelling lawsuit
  - The Verge, 31 January 2025

• Apple is automatically turning on Apple Intelligence in the latest iPhones, requiring as much as 7 gigabytes of storage. This, despite the fact that 73% of Apple users think AI adds little to no value to the experience. Here is how to turn off this waste.
  - CNET, 31 January 2025

• Futures rise after Apple boosts sentiment; looming Trump taxes/tariffs send gold prices to all time high
  - Zero Hedge, 31 January 2025

• Shares of Apple rise over 3% after positive sales outlook signals a recovery of iPhone sales
  - Thomson's Reuters, 30 January 2025

• Shares of Apple decline after iPhone sales miss analysts' estimates, and revenues from Zhōngguó unexpectedly decline
  - Zero Hedge, 30 January 2025

• The founder of TSMC says that Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, told him in 2011 that Intel did not know how to be a foundry. Intel could have landed Apple as a foundry customer, but it did not. Apple considered using Intel Custom Foundry (ICF) and Texas Instruments but quickly realized the ICF was not tailored for external customers at all, while TI did not have advanced process technologies. As a result, it chose TSMC as its exclusive supplier, according to Morris Chang, the founder of TSMC.
  - Tom's Hardware, 29 January 2025

• Shares of Globalstar crashed as much as 32% after a Bloomberg report revealed that Apple has been working with SpaceX and T-Mobile to integrate Starlink satellite connectivity into the latest iPhone software. Globalstar's exclusive iPhone satellite service is coming to an end as competition heats up with Apple's new offering of SpaceX's Starlink.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 January 2025

• AI disrupter DeepSeek, based in Zhōngguó, claims the top spot in Apple's US App Store, dethroning the sociopaths at ChatGPT. DeepSeek has integrated its reasoning model into the web and app versions of its chatbots for unlimited use at no cost.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 27 January 2025

• Sales of Apple's iPhones in Zhōngguó decline as Huawei gains market share. Apple's fourth-quarter iPhone sales fell 18% in the world's largest smartphone market.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 January 2025

• Apple drops 4% as Jeffries downgrades the stock from "hold" to "underperform" and price target from $212 to $201, and JPMorgan lowers its price target from $265 to $260. The downgrades were due to lower sales levels of iPhones, and weak demand for its AI products
  - Investopedia, 21 January 2025

• Apple faces $1.8 billion lawsuit in UK court over App Store. Lawyers representing the class action said that Apple excluded potential rivals from competing for customers on devices running its iOS operating system by forcing developers to sell their apps exclusively through its own App Store and charging commissions of 30% for purchases.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 January 2025

• Global sales of smartphones rebound, but Apple AI fails to spark an upgrade boom for iPhones
  - Zero Hedge, 13 January 2025

• Apple still cannot sell its iPhone 16 in Indonesia despite striking a deal to build a local production facility there, as it has not met domestic content rules, the industry minister said on Wednesday. Last year, Indonesia banned iPhone 16 sales after Apple failed to meet requirements that smartphones sold domestically should comprise at least 35% locally-made parts.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 08 January 2025

• Apple's pricey iPhones will not be eligible for a new 15% government subsidy for smartphones, tablets and smartwatches in Zhōngguó. The subsidy is a new policy to boost domestic consumption, giving domestic smartphone makers the opportunity to lift sales on the back of the stimulus measure.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 08 January 2025

• Apple's AI applications for the iPhone are proving that they are anything but intelligent. Complaints and ridicule have been mounting about mistakes by the iPhone maker's hyped AI features, and the flaws risk a serious setback.
  - NDTV, 07 January 2025

• Apple is facing fresh calls to withdraw its controversial artificial intelligence (AI) feature that has generated inaccurate news alerts on its latest iPhones. The product is meant to summarise breaking news notifications but has in some instances invented entirely false claims.
  - BBC, 07 January 2025

• Shares of Apple are pricier -- and more vulnerable -- than ever. This year could test the mettle of Apple.
  - Barron's, 04 January 2025

• Foreign phone sales plunge 47% in Zhōngguó, which is big trouble for Apple
  - Comcast's CNBC, 03 January 2025

• $95,000,000 - Apple to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated Siri assistant violated the privacy of Apple's customers. Mobile device owners complained that Apple routinely recorded their private conversations after they activated Siri unintentionally, and disclosed these conversations to third parties such as advertisers.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 03 January 2025

• Apple is offering rare discounts of up to 500 yuan ($68.50) on its latest iPhone models in Zhōngguó, as Apple acts to defend its market share against rising competition from domestic rivals such as Huawei.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 02 January 2025

• Why Foxconn, based in Taiwan, a major supplier to iPhone, is investing in Texas and Thailand - to lessen its dependence on Zhōngguó
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 December 2024

• The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has filed criminal complaints against tech giant Apple's subsidiaries in France and Belgium over the use of "conflict minerals" in their supply chains, and accused Apple of "using deceptive commercial practices to assure consumers that Apple's supply chains are clean".
  - Al Jazeera, 20 December 2024

• The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders is urging Apple to remove its newly introduced artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news stories after it produced a false headline from the BBC
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 19 December 2024

• How will Apple compete with $168 to $280 AI smartphones from Zhōngguó, such as the Honor Magic V?
  - Zero Hedge, 16 December 2024

• Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far. Things are even worse for Samsung smartphones, with an even greater majority of owners saying they cannot see much point in the AI features offered.
  - 9to5 Mac, 16 December 2024

• Apple is sued for failing to curtail child sexual abuse material on iCloud. Victims of abuse are seeking more than $1.2 billion in damages, arguing that the company abandoned a 2021 system it developed to find abusive material.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 December 2024

• Building products for Apple has become a side hustle for biggest EV maker in Zhōngguó. BYD has grown into a top iPad assembler and has put around 100,000 people to work for Apple.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 December 2024

• Sales of Huawei's latest flagship Mate 70-series smartphones are expected to fall short of the demand generated by the Mate 60, according to analysts, citing the new model's weaker processor performance and heightened supply chain risks amid geopolitical tensions
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 01 December 2024

• Generative AI fails to spark an upgrade supercycle for Apple iPhones. Apple's shipments are only expected to grow by a mere .4% this year. This underscores the growing challenge Apple faces as Android-based competitors continue to chip away at its market share in top markets, particularly in Zhōngguó and emerging markets.
  - Zero Hedge, 27 November 2024

• Huawei abandons the use of the Android operating system developed by Amazon to break free from Western technology with its new flagship smartphone, which features domestic chips and homegrown software. Huawei will use its HarmonyOS operating system.
  - Zero Hedge, 26 November 2024

• Huawei takes aim at Apple with Huawei's latest smartphone. Last year, a chip breakthrough put Huawei on top of the Chinese smartphone market. Now it is rolling out its newest phone, the Mate 70 series.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 November 2024

• Indonesia says that Apple's offer to invest $100 million in Indonesia is inadequate, and not enough to allow the tech giant to sell its latest iPhone model
  - Thomson's Reuters, 25 November 2024

• How Tim Cook cracked the code on working with Trump. The election is leading to a return of personal lobbying by CEOs, hoping to develop ties with the new administration. Cook developed a playbook for engaging with Trump.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 November 2024

• Apple offers $100 million investment in Indonesia to lift a ban on the iPhone 16. The amount that Apple has offered is 10 times higher than an initial plan to invest $10 million and will be invested over the next two years.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 November 2024

• Sales of iPhones in Zhōngguó fall during the Singles' Day shopping festival. The event's two-week sales period saw a "double-digit, year-on-year, decline" in iPhone sales amid stiff competition from rivals in Zhōngguó.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 21 November 2024

• Sales of new iPhones powered by AI drop during the world's biggest shopping holiday in Zhōngguó
  - Zero Hedge, 21 November 2024

• More progress on making people less intelligent so they need more Big Tech: punctuation is dead because the iPhone keyboard killed it. Apple sacrificed commas and periods at the altar of simplified, yet terrible, keyboard design. By hiding the comma and period behind a symbol switch, the iPhone keyboard encourages the biggest grammar fiends to be lazy and skip punctuation.
  - Android Authority, 10 November 2024

• Sales growth for Foxconn slows amid underwhelming AI-enabled iPhone upgrade supercycle
  - Zero Hedge, 05 November 2024

• Warren Buffett calls the top of the stock market: Berkshire Hathwaway sells 100 million shares of Apple as unprecedented selling spree (including selling of shares of Bank of America) boosts cash to record quarter trillion dollars
  - Zero Hedge, 02 November 2024

• Sales for the iPhone maker were up 6 percent to to $94.93 billion. But a $14.4 billion tax bill in Europe cut profits that would have topped expectations.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 November 2024

• The extremely profitable inner workings of digital addiction
  - Of Two Minds, 01 November 2024

• Shares of Globalstart soar 45% after the company disclosed in a filing that it will expand its partnership with Apple to support Emergency SOS via satellite for new iPhones
  - Zero Hedge, 01 November 2024

• Shares of Apple are down 3% after revealing some very lukewarm guidance on the call, saying it now expects Q1 revenue to grow in the low to mid-single digits YoY (assume 4-6%). The sellside consensus is at 7%. Revenues in Zhōngguó dropped again, down 0.3% Y-t-Y. The rest of the product suite was mixed with Mac revenue coming in line with est at $7.74bn, while both iPads and wearables missed expectations ($6.95BN vs exp. $7.07 billion, and $9.04 billion, vs exp. $9.17 billion).
  - Zero Hedge, 31 October 2024

• People familiar with trade data say Apple exported $6 billion worth of iPhones made in Bharat in the six months through September. That figure is expected to jump to $10 billion by the end of the year. Apple is in the early stages of a multi-decade transition away from reliance on factories in Zhōngguó, actively "friend-shoring" production capacity to countries in Southeast Asia.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 October 2024

• Apple predicted to have the biggest revenue jump in two years on increased iPhone demand in Zhōngguó
  - Thomson's Reuters, 29 October 2024

• Sales of iPhones in the 3rd quarter of 2024 decline, as competition from Huawei increases
  - Zero Hedge, 25 October 2024

• In recent weeks, Apple has told Luxshare, which is responsible for the Vision Pro's final assembly, that it might need to wind down its manufacturing in November, due to weak demand
  - Zero Hedge, 23 October 2024

• Shares of Apple drop about 2% after an analyst warns iPhone 16 orders reduced by 10 million units for 45h quarter of 2024 and first half of 2025
  - Zero Hedge, 23 October 2024

• $89,800,000 - Apple and Goldman Sachs ordered to pay $89 million after Apple Card failures
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 23 October 2024

• Bharat is expected to limit imports of laptops, tablets and personal computers after January, two government sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, a move to push companies such as Apple, in order to to increase domestic manufacturing. This plan, if implemented, could disrupt an industry worth $8 billion to $10 billion and reshape the dynamics of the IT hardware market in Bharat, which is heavily reliant on imports.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 18 October 2024

• At their debut, iPhone 16 sales soar 20% in Zhōngguó as demand returns
  - Bloomberg, 18 October 2024

• Why is Apple so bad at marketing its TV shows? The shows on Apple TV+ boast some of the top stars working today on both sides of the camera. Imagine how popular those shows would be if more people actually knew about them.
  - Fast Company, 16 October 2024

• Apple faces potential Google income loss amid antitrust action, says Jefferies
  - Guru Focus, 16 October 2024

• Sales of Apple headsets slow down, as Apple struggles to attract killer apps in first year. Many of the most successful virtual-reality software developers have not built apps for the Vision Pro headset, leading some users to opt out.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 October 2024

• Sales of smartphones by Huawei in Zhōngguó surpass those of Apple in August. That aligns with data showing a 12.7 per cent year-on-year decline in foreign smartphone shipments, including those of Apple, in August.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 10 October 2024

• Did Apple just kill social apps? Some app makers worry that a subtle change to the iPhone's contact-sharing permissions could make it hard for them to get the fast growth they need to compete.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 October 2024

• JPMorgan analysts flip-flop iPhone 16 demand forecast in just three days, from "slower initial demand" to "AI-upgrade cycle expectations remain intact" for iPhone 16 sales. With shares near all-time highs, the last thing bulls want to hear is how quickly some of Wall Street's top analysts are downshifting their outlook on iPhone 16 demand - thus the logic of the JPMorgan flipflop?
  - Zero Hedge, 02 October 2024

• Analysts at Barclays find "weak" iPhone 16 demand after supply chain check
  - Zero Hedge, 01 October 2024

• Apple's stock closes in on record high after upbeat call on iPhone availability. JPMorgan says longer initial lead times for iPhone Pro models appear to be am 'aberration'.
  - Murdoch's MarketWatch, 30 September 2024

• Apple's iPhone 16 has seen lower-than-expected initial sales, deepening concerns for South Korean display manufacturers. According to recent reports from South Korean media, LG Display (LGD) is facing particularly severe challenges. Citing industry sources, South Korean media DealSite reported that the iPhone 16 series' initial sales performance has fallen short of expectations, which is expected to impact South Korean OLED panel suppliers' performance in the second half of 2024.
  - Zero Hedge, 26 September 2024

• TikTok to shut down short-lived music-streaming service. The service is set to close in November, ending a yearlong attempt to compete against Spotify and Apple.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 September 2024

• JPMorgan in talks with Apple to take over credit card processing from Goldman Sachs. The bank could become the new Apple credit-card issuer, but is seeking concessions from the tech company.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 September 2024

• Users of Apple's iPhones are complaining that iOS18 is more rapidly draining their phone's batteries
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 17 September 2024

• No AI-fueled upgrade supercycle? Apple iPhone 16 discounts offered at major online retailers in Zhōngguó
  - Zero Hedge, 17 September 2024

• For Apple, the European Union is a cash sinkhole. The world's largest company has racked up fines, taxes and investigations in a region where it says it cannot sell its latest technology. Apple obtains about a quarter of its massive revenue from Europe.
  - Politico, 16 September 2024

• Bitcoin and Big Tech (Apple, Nvidia) are battered down, while bond yields and oil rise, as expectations for an interest rate reduction by the Fed of 0.5% soar
  - Zero Hedge, 16 September 2024

• Shares of Apple are down 6% in two weeks, on an analysis of pre-orders for iPhone 16 that are showing weak demand for iPhone 16 Pros
  - Zero Hedge, 16 September 2024

• Apple has a hot new product. It is a hearing aid. The world's most valuable company just turned its top-selling headphones into low-cost hearing aids -- and it is quietly a huge moment.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 September 2024

• The stunning economic success of OnlyFans. And because it doesn't use the AppStore of Apple for sales, OnlyFans can give its content providers 80% of revenues, while still being quite profitable for the owners of OnlyFans.
  - MatthewBall.co, 13 September 2024

• Apple is at a disadvantage against phone makers in Zhōngguó that are offering artificial-intelligence services in Zhōngguó, where sales of iPhones have declined for four consecutive quarters.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 September 2024

• Apple's new AI features are magically mediocre. Apple Intelligence is not that scary, not that advanced, and definitely not finished.
  - Vox, 10 September 2024

• $14,400,000,000 - The European Court of Justice rules that Apple must pay back 13 billion euros ($14.4 billion) in back taxes, taxes it didn't pay because it received "illegal" tax benefits from Ireland over the course of two decades
  - Comcast's CNBC, 10 September 2024

• Apple helped eliminate part of a child safety bill. More fights are expected. As lawmakers debate how to regulate teen smartphone use to make cellphones less addictive, dopamine-trafficker Apple is pushing back on efforts for it to enforce age restrictions.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 04 September 2024

• A leaked pitch deck presentation from Cox Media Group (CMG) - a major player in the digital advertising space, appears to detail how its "Active Listening" software uses artificial intelligence to capture and analyze "real-time intent data" from the conversations of cellphone users. The slideshow goes further, showcasing authoritarian tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon as clients of CMG, suggesting they may use this controversial technology. These companies have long denied listening to user conversations through device microphones, but this leaked document raises new questions.
  - Zero Hedge, 03 September 2024

• The "buy-now-pay-later" service, Zip, based in Australia, is in talks with Apple to integrate its installment-payments product in the USA, and expects to announce partnerships with more large merchants in the USA in its current fiscal quarter, its CEO said.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 28 August 2024

• Apple rethinks its movie strategy after a string of movies that were financial failures
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 August 2024

• The panic sale of shares of Apple by Warren Buffett cost him $6.2 billion. Shares of Apple jumped 7.5% from June 30, the end of Berkshire Hathaway's most recent trade disclosure window. That translates into missing out on a staggering gain of $6.2 billion since that time.
  - Investors, 19 August 2024

• Apple is spending billions of dollars playing the 'long game' with switch from cellular modem processors from Qualcomm.
  - Bloomberg, 18 August 2024

• Google debuts AI-powered phones in latest attempt to best Apple's iPhone. The internet giant unveiled the next generation of Pixel phones, headphones and watches to stand out in a hardware market that has mostly ignored it.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 August 2024

• Why schools are racing to ban student phones. As the new school year starts, a wave of new laws that aim to curb distracted learning is taking effect in Indiana, Louisiana and other states.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 August 2024

• Dopamine-trafficker Apple says Patreon must switch to its billing system or risk removal from App Store. Apple now allows developers to promote their subscriptions via links to a website, but with a 27% commission instead of the standard 30%, or 12% instead of 15% for auto-renewing subscriptions in year two.
  - TechCrunch, 12 August 2024

• Why Nvidia is still the undisputed king of AI. Nvidia, like Apple, shows that if you want to become a giant, you have got to be as good at software as you are at hardware.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 August 2024

• The loss in a historic antitrust trial for Google is reverberating across Silicon Valley. The ruling is likely to affect the search giant and its largest collaborators and competitors in the mobile computing industry.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 August 2024

• Google and Apple can afford to play long game after antitrust ruling. They have a strong common cause to protect the billions of dollars Google pays Apple every year to keep its search engine on the iPhone, though the arrangement is looking a little more uncertain.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 August 2024

• Shares of Apple drop 7% after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway slashes stake by half
  - Comcast's CNBC, 05 August 2024

• Did the Warren Buffett news leak early? Goldman Sachs warns orderly selling turned "panicky" on Friday amid record sales of technology stocks. Did Buffett's historic dump of Apple shares leak to the hedge fund community, which has now dumped tech names for 9 of the past 11 weeks?
  - Zero Hedge, 04 August 2024

• Apple on Thursday announced that its third-quarter financials beat Wall Street expectations, as its overall revenue ticked up 5%. iPad, which had languished in recent years, saw the biggest category increase for the quarter, up from $5.8 billion to $7.2 billion year-over-year. Tablet sales, fueled by the line's largest refresh in years, helped counter slowed iPhone revenue, which dropped from $39.7 billion to $39.3 billion year-on-year.
  - TechCrunch, 01 August 2024

• Shares of Apple pump (up $7) and dump (then down $8 dollars) as iPad sales help beat earnings estimates, but with a decline in revenues in Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 01 August 2024

• More mobile game developers have stepped forward to talk about their strained relationship with Apple, including new complaints about designing for the Apple Vision Pro - an "abusive relationship". In February, game developers began expressing frustration over Apple Arcade. They pointed out that while the service was initially profitable, Apple had begun decreasing upfront payments and the per-play "bonus pool". Additionally, Apple began to axe projects with little to no warning. Apple has delayed payments -- sometimes up to six months -- which has put smaller studios in precarious situations.
  - Apple Insider, 31 July 2024

• Apple's new AI iPhone is a hit on Wall Street. If shoppers do not agree, watch out for stock price declines.
  - Barron's, 27 July 2024

• Apple's iPhone Falls out of the top five most popular cellphones in Zhōngguó, while sales are growing 10% year-to-year. Apple faces intense competition from Huawei, and consumers in Zhōngguó are increasingly abandoning foreign brands for domestic ones as the tech war between Washington and Beijing intensifies.
  - Zero Hedge, 26 July 2024

• Billion dollar companies such as Apple and Nvidia are stealing content on YouTube to train their AI systems so the companies can make more billions that won't go the original artists
  - Zero Hedge, 17 July 2024

• Apple and the European Union settle a long-running mobile-payments probe. The bloc said the Apple's decision to let third parties use the technology behind its Apple Pay app addressed concerns that it was stifling competition.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 July 2024

• Apple's augmented reality headset, the Vision Pro, costs $3,499 and was released earlier this year during a period of elevated consumer stress, which has only worsened by the month. There have been notable signs of mounting demand woes for the overpriced headset, and new estimates forecast dismal sales until a cheaper version debuts next year.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 July 2024

• To see the future of AI on iPhones, check out Samsung. Apple says it will soon introduce generative artificial intelligence to its new iPhones. Its chief smartphone rival offers clues on how the experience might go.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 July 2024

• Apple expects 10% rise in new iPhone shipments on hopes of AI-driven upgrade cycle. "Oh wait, because Siri can now plagiarize as good as ChatGPT everyone will want to buy an iPhone, got it."
  - Zero Hedge, 10 July 2024

• TSMC second-quarter revenue jumps on AI boost, handily beats market forecasts. Two big customers are Apple and Nvidia. TSMC is expected to report a 30% on-year rise in second-quarter net profit.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 10 July 2024

• Take profits in Apple stock before AI hype runs its course
  - Zero Hedge, 08 July 2024

• Apple, the most valuable company in the world, reported that its market share in Zhōngguó shrink in May, even after "deep" discounting. In May, iPhone "sell-through" declined by 2% year-over-year (YoY), marking the fifth consecutive monthly decline.
  - Zero Hedge, 02 July 2024

• iPhone shipments in Zhōngguó jump 40% after Apple offers big discounts
  - Zero Hedge, 28 June 2024

• Apple is imposing unfair restrictions on developers of applications for its App Store in violation of a new European Union law meant to encourage competition in the tech industry, regulators in Brussels said on Monday. Apple is the first company to be charged with violating the Digital Markets Act, a law passed in 2022 that gives European regulators wide authority to force the largest "online gatekeepers" to change their business practices.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 25 June 2024

• Apple is imposing unfair restrictions on developers of applications for its App Store in violation of a new European Union law meant to encourage competition in the tech industry, regulators in Brussels said on Monday. Apple is the first company to be charged with violating the Digital Markets Act, a law passed in 2022 that gives European regulators wide authority to force the largest "online gatekeepers" to change their business practices.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 June 2024

• Foxconn, a major manufacturer of Apple devices, has been excluding female candidates from assembly jobs at its flagship smartphone plant in Bharat because they are married. Both companies' codes of conduct state that workers shouldn't be discriminated against on the basis of marital status.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 24 June 2024

• Apple reportedly halts work on Vision Pro 2, focuses on cheaper version as demand falters. "Far too expensive for normal people. It is a product for the rich made by millionaires. Completely out of touch!"
  - Zero Hedge, 18 June 2024

• Apple sued by employees alleging unequal pay for women. The suit targets Apple's hiring practices used to set compensation, as well as performance-review policies at Apple.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 June 2024

• The parliament of Nihon has approved a law that will force third-party App stores on Apple and Google
  - Apple Insider, 12 June 2024

• Can Apple rescue the Vision Pro? The $3,500 "spatial computing" headset has gathered dust on my shelf. Can tweaks and upgrades save it from obsolescence?
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 June 2024

• The "buy now, pay later" service is coming to Apple Pay. Meanwhile, the Bank for International Settlements has warned that BNPL adoption is high among young adults, particularly those with low education. The report said this is a troubling trend, given that overuse and poor understanding of the service can be disastrous for consumers and lead to overindebtedness.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 June 2024

• Shares of Apple rise 5% after it announces its attaching itself to the AI bubble
  - Comcast's CNBC, 11 June 2024

• That much-despised Apple ad could be more disturbing than it looks. Tech companies are running low on new experiences to keep us addicted to their products. They could have depicted all that gear being cheerfully shrunken and squeezed into one iPad, awaiting creative fun. Instead, they went with just demolishing it all . Did no one point out that people are increasingly wary of tech impact on the creative professions? That people have soured on Silicon Valley's apparent desire to monetize human creativity in as many ways as possible, from extractive streaming arrangements to harvesting human-made art as training material for AI systems?
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 June 2024

• Apple is expected to make AI the heart of the next iPhone, but pent-up demand following three weak years may be a bigger factor helping sales this time
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 June 2024

• Apple needs an AI miracle at its WWDC conference. The stock price is counting on it.
  - Barron's, 08 June 2024

• Just 3 stocks rule the stock market: Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft. Why you should be worried.
  - Barron's, 08 June 2024

• Shipments of Apple's iPhones in Zhōngguó rebound 52%, as market share loss to Huawei may be stabilizing
  - Zero Hedge, 28 May 2024

• Apple reduces the prices of iPhone 15 smartphones in Zhōngguó as demand decreases
  - Zero Hedge, 20 May 2024

• Users of Google's smartphones are more more likely to switch to another brand, than users of smartphones sold by Apple or Samsung
  - Zero Hedge, 16 May 2024

• Samsung tops Apple in Q1 global shipments of cellphones
  - Zero Hedge, 14 May 2024

• Apple's 'crush' ad - which depicts a tower of creative tools and analog items literally crushed into the form of the iPad - is disgusting and misanthropic. The crime is trying to sell the replacement of everything creative in the physical world with an iPad.
  - Techcrunch, 09 May 2024

• Shipments of iPhones in Zhōngguó rise 12% after Apple offers discounts
  - Zero Hedge, 08 May 2024

• The iPhone is losing its cutting-edge appeal in Zhōngguó. A fall in sales for Apple in Zhōngguó shows that some consumers there no longer see the iPhone as the most advanced in technology.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 04 May 2024

• The Pura70 smartphone from Huawei contains new 7-nanometer HiSilicon chip made by SMIC. The chip, designed by Huawei's in-house division - HiSilicon, is set to help the Shenzhen-based tech champion regain the top position in the smartphone market in Zhōngguó.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 28 April 2024

• Apple slashes Vision Pro shipment projections by 50% as demand for $3,500 headset plummets
  - Zero Hedge, 24 April 2024

• iPhone sales in Zhōngguó decline 19% in worst quarter since 2020
  - Zero Hedge, 23 April 2024

• Huawei launches new smartphones with advanced chips to challenge Apple's iPhone 15
  - Zero Hedge, 18 April 2024

• How cell phones are killing our kids - an epidemic of mental illness being induced in children , and what people and parents can do about it
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 16 April 2024

• First quarter shipments of iPhones decline the most since Covid, as demands decreases in Zhōngguó
  - Zero Hedge, 15 April 2024

• Global shipments of iPhones fell nearly 10% in the first quarter despite a broader smartphone market recovery as Applke continues to contend with rising challengers from Zhōngguó such as Xiaomi.
  - Yahoo FInance, 15 April 2024

• Apple is not making an electric vehicle, but phone makers in Zhōngguó are showing that they can. The tech heavyweights, such as Xiaomi, are looking to electric vehicles for their second act, and are jumping into a brutal price war in Zhōngguó.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 04 April 2024

• Has Zhōngguó lost its preference for the iPhone? Apple has deep ties in the country, its second-largest market. But there are signs that onsumers in Zhōngguó are becoming a harder sell.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 March 2024

• Shares of Apple decline on a report from Zhōngguó that shipments of iPhones plunged 33%
  - Zero Hedge, 26 March 2024

• The European Union takes aim at Google, Apple and Facebook in wide-ranging criminal antitrust investigations. The inquiries signal the EU's intention to tightly enforce sweeping new competition rules that took effect this month.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 March 2024

• The European Union takes aim at Google, Apple and Facebook in wide-ranging criminal antitrust investigations. The inquiries signal the EU's intention to tightly enforce sweeping new competition rules that took effect this month.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 March 2024

• Humane's revolution Ai Pin wearable computer is the ultimate cellphone killer at $700 (a cellphone minus screen, plus palm/surface projector): 9 incredible features.
  - Indian Express, 22 March 2024

• The Department of Justice sues Apple under antitrust laws, saying its iPhone ecosystem is a monopoly that drove its "astronomical valuation" at the expense of consumers, developers and rival phone makers.The lawsuit claims that Apple's anti-competitive practices extend beyond the iPhone and Apple Watch businesses, citing s advertising, browser, FaceTime and news offerings.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 21 March 2024

• The Department of Justice sues Apple under antitrust laws, saying its iPhone ecosystem is a monopoly that drove its "astronomical valuation" at the expense of consumers, developers and rival phone makers.The lawsuit claims that Apple's anti-competitive practices extend beyond the iPhone and Apple Watch businesses, citing s advertising, browser, FaceTime and news offerings.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 March 2024

• The Department of Justice sues Apple under antitrust laws, saying its iPhone ecosystem is a monopoly that drove its "astronomical valuation" at the expense of consumers, developers and rival phone makers.The lawsuit claims that Apple's anti-competitive practices extend beyond the iPhone and Apple Watch businesses, citing s advertising, browser, FaceTime and news offerings.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 March 2024

• Shares of Google are up 5.5% in pre-market trading after a report that Apple is in talks to license the Gemini AI tools for iPhones
  - Comcast's CNBC, 18 March 2024

• $490,000,000 - Apple agrees to pay $490 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged Chief Executive Tim Cook defrauded shareholders by concealing falling demand for iPhones in Zhōngguó
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 15 March 2024

• Gloom and doom: sales of Apple's iPhones in Zhōngguó plunge 24% - stock is down 5% in two days
  - Zero Hedge, 05 March 2024

• Gloom and doom: sales of Apple's iPhones in Zhōngguó plunge 24% - stock is down 5% in two days
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 March 2024

• $2,000,000,000 - The European Union has fined Apple $2 billion for preventing Spotify and other music streaming services from informing users of payment options outside its App Store. Apple will appeal, as it doesn't want any government interferring with its authoritarian practices.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 04 March 2024

• How phones made in Zhōngguó are dominating the marketplace in Africa, as they beat phones from global giants such as Samsung and Apple. Transsion, a company based in Zhōngguó, leads the African mobile market, with its three brands -- Tecno, Infinix and iTel -- holding 48 per cent of the market share. The brands have never been sold in Zhōngguó, but have come to dominate the affordable phone segment across the continent and are expanding into other markets.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 03 March 2024

• How Apple could finally drive this bull market down. Below $180, if it breaks below $170, it could drop more and drag down the SP500, possible as iPhone sales growth was almost nonexistent in the fourth quarter.
  - Barron's, 02 March 2024

• Behind the doomed car project at Apple: false starts and wrong turns. Internal disagreements over the direction of the Apple car led the effort to sputter for years before it was canceled this week.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 March 2024

• Apple's valuations are near their most expensive levels of the last ten years. Apple must sell nearly $400 billion of products and services each year to keep its share price stable. Further, if its earnings growth alone does not support a valuation premium to the market's valuation, can the continued use of stock buybacks support the premium?
  - Real Investment Advice, 28 February 2024

• Apple terminates its electric car project. The car, which Apple spent billions of dollars researching, had been intended as a rival to Tesla's, which include autonomous driving features.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 February 2024

• Apple terminates its electric car project. The car, which Apple spent billions of dollars researching, had been intended as a rival to Tesla's, which include autonomous driving features.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 28 February 2024

• $539,000,000 - Apple will reportedly have to pay a $539 million fine due to an antitrust complaint filed by Spotify in the European Union. Spotify alleged that Apple policies prevent iPhone apps from telling users about cheaper alternatives to the music service of Apple. It is, admittedly, a meaningless fine for a company as wealthy as Apple.
  - Zero Hedge, 18 February 2024

• Search trens for "return Apple Vision Pro" erupt as users complain
  - Zero Hedge, 13 February 2024

• A federal agency issues security warning for Apple devices, gives government agencies three weeks to comply
  - Zero Hedge, 05 February 2024

• Apple has a new plan for its App store. Many developers hate it. To comply with European regulations, Apple has proposed reducing its commission on app sales while adding new fees and hurdles. Tucked inside the plan, they argue, are new fees and rules that make it prohibitively expensive and risky to make the changes that the law was intended to bring.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 February 2024

• Shares of Apple drop 1.5% after analyst predicts a 15% decline in iPhone shipments
  - Zero Hedge, 30 January 2024

• The main driver of the success of Apple has become its biggest liability. Apple's 'walled garden' has driven record revenues, but the way the company is trying to preserve it has become an invitation for regulators to pounce, partners to defect and competitors to circle.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 January 2024

• Smartphone shipments for Apple in Zhōngguó fell in fourth quarter. Shipments were hurt by weaker consumer demand and rising market share for rival Huawei Technologies.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 January 2024

• What could bring Apple down? Trustbusters, platform shifts and geopolitics could all hurt the iPhone-maker.
  - Economist, 25 January 2024

• Apple changes its App Store policy. Critics call the changes "outrageous". The iPhone maker will allow developers to process purchases outside of its app store but will still charge a commission.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 January 2024

• Teachers say addictive mobile phones make their lives a living hell -- so one school in western Massachusetts banned them, replacing them with dumnb phones mostly useful for telephone calls. The result? "Most everyone agrees, however, that the school is better off without these hell/addictive devices. There are fewer interruptions during class, more meaningful interactions around campus, and less time spent on screens."
  - The Guardian, 17 January 2024

• Apple quietly introduced a rare discount on its latest iPhones in Zhōngguó, cutting prices as much as 500 yuan ($70) amid sagging demand and increasing competitive pressure in the world's top smartphone market.
  - Zero Hedge, 15 January 2024

• Apple quietly introduced a rare discount on its latest iPhones in Zhōngguó, cutting prices as much as 500 yuan ($70) amid sagging demand and increasing competitive pressure in the world's top smartphone market.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 January 2024

• Apple has pulled apps of at least nine cryptocurrency exchanges, including Binance and Kraken, from its App Store in Bharat, less than two weeks after most of these global firms were flagged for operating "illegally" in Bharat.
  - TechCrunch, 09 January 2024

• Jeffries analyst Edison Lee told clients that iPhone sales in Zhōngguó plunged 30% in the first week of 2024 compared to the same week last year. The tech giant in the USA faces rising competitive pressures from domestic brands, such as Huawei, spurred by "patriotic fervor" amid the technology war with the USA.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 January 2024

• Shares of Apple drop 1% after a report that the government of the USA is preparing an antitrust lawsuit against the authoritarian company
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 January 2024

• The USA moves closer to filing a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 January 2024

• Apple hit with another downgrade on worries about retail demand for iPhones
  - Zero Hedge, 04 January 2024

• Shares of Apple drop 3% on a report that Barclays is downgrading the stock by expecting it to drop 17% this year
  - Zero Hedge, 02 January 2024