Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn has become nearly synonymous with Apple's products, but that may not be the case for much longer. According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is increasingly splitting its manufacturing between Foxconn and little-known company Pegatron. Pegatron was tasked with...
Sources say Tim Cook wanted to diversify suppliers, especially after iPhone 5 scuffing
During the D11 conference this evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook was pressed on the fact that Apple's software is more closed in comparison to other platforms such as Android, and admitted that the company could be softening on that stance — to a...
All Things D has kicked off its yearly D conference, and as usual, an interview with Apple's CEO started proceedings. But Tim Cook isn't the only speaker of note to be appearing at D11 — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Sony CEO and president Kazuo Hirai, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Microsoft's ex-Windows chief Steven Sinofsky, and IAC chairman turned...
Could Apple one day develop apps for Android? The very notion seems blasphemous, but in one of his most surprising answers on stage at D11, Tim Cook said his company is at least open to the idea. During an audience Q&A session, Cook was asked if bringing iCloud to other operating systems would be a wise move for Apple. With his answer, the CEO chose to go wider in scope. "To a general question of 'would Apple port an app from iOS to Android?'" he began, "We have no religious issue with doing that. If we thought it made sense for us to do that, we would do that."
Cook went on to say it's the same sort of thinking Apple applies to many of its product decisions. "And so you can take that same philosophy and apply it to virtually everything we do: if it makes sense to do it, we would do it. It's not a religious issue with it." Still, the...
"If we thought it made sense for us to do that, we would do that." Tim Cook
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Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage at All Things D’s D11 conference today, touching on a variety of issues, from wearable electronics and iOS 7 to Apple's tax headaches in the US. One big announcement was the appointment of Lisa Jackson, the former head of the EPA, to head up Apple's...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed what many have long assumed — that Jony Ive is working on a new version of iOS, and that it will be revealed at WWDC next month. Speaking at the D11 conference, Cook said that Apple "recognized that Jony had...
Onstage at the D11 conference in California, Tim Cook responded to a question about Google Glass, noting that wearables are a profound type of technology and that Apple may be working on its own wearable tech. "It's an area that's ripe for exploration," Cook said, "it's ripe...
