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WATCH: Building Apple’s iPhone doesn’t pay like it used to

By Reuters Mon, May 13, 2013 8:49PM UTC 0 Comment

Apple’s legendary profit margins may be challenged if the firm releases its long-rumored low-end iPhone later this year. But the ones really feeling the pinch will be its suppliers....

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Apple apologises to Chinese customers

By AP News Tue, Apr 02, 2013 10:39AM UTC 0 Comment

Customers shop inside Apple's Sanlitun retail store in Beijing, China. Pic: AP.

BEIJING (AP) — Apple apologized to Chinese consumers after government media attacked its repair policies for two weeks in a campaign that reeked of economic nationalism. A statement Apple posted in Chinese on its website Monday said the complaints had prompted “deep reflection” and persuaded the company of the need to revamp its repair policies,...

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Research firm: Apple now biggest US phone seller

By AP News Mon, Feb 04, 2013 5:54AM UTC 1 Comment

NEW YORK (AP) — The launch of the iPhone 5 and the declining popularity of non-smartphones have made Apple the biggest seller of phones in the U.S. for the first time, research firm Strategy Analytics said Friday. The firm estimates that Apple shipped 17.7 million iPhones of all kinds to U.S. buyers in the October...

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Judge rejects Apple’s patent award demands

By AP News Wed, Jan 30, 2013 3:18PM UTC 1 Comment

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge rejected Apple Inc.’s demand to increase the $1.05 billion in damages a jury ordered Samsung Electronics Inc. to pay its fiercest rival in the smartphone market. Late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh also rejected demands from both companies to conduct another trial on different issues over claims...

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Apple CEO: China will be our biggest market

By AP News Fri, Jan 11, 2013 2:10PM UTC 0 Comment

BEIJING (AP) — Apple CEO Tim Cook has told a Chinese news agency the computer giant expects China to overtake the United States as its biggest market. “China is currently our second largest market. I believe it will become our first. I believe strongly that it will,” the Xinhua News Agency quoted Cook as saying...

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