Apple Fellow and former head of marketing, Phil Schiller, was testifying in Apple’s landmark lawsuit against Epic Games, in which the developer of the popular video game Fortnite alleges the 30 per cent commission it and other large developers are charged to use the App Store is an abuse of Apple’s iPhone app distribution monopoly.
Under cross-examination, Mr Schiller said Apple behaved much more like a start-up than a big company, with categorically no note-taking, almost no presentations, very little written analysis of the business and very little talk of profits in the executive team meetings it holds every Monday from 9am until noon.
Desktop Macs take a backseat to the MacBook lineup because laptop sales dominate the market and people generally don’t upgrade desktop Macs as frequently. It appears that Apple has determined that the seat is now farther back than before.
Apple today said it removed Game Boy emulator iGBA from the App Store for violating the company's App Review Guidelines related to spam (section 4.3) and copyright (section 5.2), but it did not provide any specific details.
Apple CEO Tim Cook arrived in Hanoi on Monday, starting a two-day visit to Vietnam, a key manufacturing hub for the iPhone maker, during which he is expected to meet students and content creators, state media said.
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Apple would boost its connection with local suppliers, clean water projects and education opportunities, it quoted Cook as saying on arrival.
Today, I learnt how to use a cane, after being attacked by gout.
What I learnt is that you hold the cane on the same side of the good leg. I did not know that.
Somehow, this seems like a rehearsal.
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