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...On a call with investors on Thursday, Apple chief executive Tim Cook called AI and machine learning “core, fundamental technologies that are integral to virtually every product that we build”....
...Generative AI is sweeping through the tech world and Cook, as chief executive, needs to rally the troops....
...Apple is trying to build up operations in India as part of its diversification strategy, sending engineers and designers to the country for weeks or months at a time to oversee manufacturing....
...A former Apple engineer said operations taking more control over product development is a “logical progression” of Apple’s trajectory under Cook....
...However, he said he was “confident I can out-engineer them”....
...“Supply chain all goes back to one guy: Tim Cook,” says a former Apple veteran. “This mess is his fault....
...But since 2020, Apple has been unable to send troops of engineers to China. Two former Apple manufacturing engineers say the company’s Chinese engineers really stepped up and proved themselves....
...“India” was also mentioned 15 times in Apple’s earnings call earlier this month, with chief executive Tim Cook saying he is “very bullish on India”....
...While the rivalry has been less noisy since, two former Apple engineers said the iPhone maker has held a “grudge” against Google ever since....
...Cher Scarlett, an Apple software engineer who left the company in November 2021, is behind three....
...Silicon Valley companies, including Facebook and Google, allowed engineers to stay at home when Covid-19 forced people to work remotely in March 2020....
...The 216 jobs Apple seeks to fill include product designers and managers, data engineers and sales specialists....
...“There is some palpable anxiety,” said one hardware engineer at the iPhone maker, who asked to remain anonymous....
...Based on tens of thousands of anonymous reviews, the platforms indicate that employees admire CEO Tim Cook and other top executives, and that they feel well paid....
...So the dreadlocked engineer looked for a solution to not being able to see real objects while being plunged into a virtual world....
...Cook added “the impact from supply constraints will be larger during the December quarter” — a line interpreted to mean a $10bn-plus hit....
...In his San Diego office there is a life-size cut-out of the engineer, his smiling face and an outstretched hand forming a thumbs up....
...In another exchange, an Apple engineer said “it would be awesome” if Apple could sell ads in the App Store, like Google does for the Play Store, but he acknowledged this would be “at odds” with Cook “telling...
...The early optimism of Apple’s project was clear in 2015, when Tim Cook, chief executive, told a Wall Street Journal conference that he wanted people to have “an iPhone experience in their car”....
...In 2015, for instance, the Tesla chief was asked about Apple allegedly poaching “important engineers” from Tesla. “Important engineers?” he responded. “They have hired people we’ve fired....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 8 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Tim Cook has a reputation for being soft-spoken and a little boring. His Twitter feed is replete with corporate platitudes....
...Rowan, an accomplished financial engineer, might be Apollo’s brightest mind....
...The real test will be whether Mac users like developers, engineer or designers, who requires high performance, notice any problems with the new processor....
...Five of them were profiled in the 20-page letter, including a software development engineer identified as D.O. in the brief, who came to the US from Mexico at age eight....
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