November 15, 2024

Year: 2019

Report: Apple to reduce hiring new people because of slumping iPhone sales

Bloomburg is reporting it has spoken with "people familiar with the matter" that during a recent 'all hands meeting' inside of Apple, Tim Cook said that due to slumping iPhone sales, that it prompted a hiring freeze.

In his response, Cook said a complete shutdown of hires is not a viable solution, adding that Apple's health is not measured by hiring rates, the report said.

The hiring reductions are not company-wide, with cutbacks to be spread across multiple divisions. Cook has yet to determine which segments will be impacted by the hiring policy, though he confirmed key teams like Apple's artificial intelligence group would continue to aggressively recruit new workers. The change does not affect plans for the company's new campus in Austin, Tex., or a buildout of its video team in Los Angeles, the report said.

Apple’s iPad might influence the future of the Mac Interface

“Much has been written — a lot of it by me, admittedly — about how Apple’s commitment to let iOS developers bring their apps to macOS in 2019 has the potential to dramatically change the Mac. But adding iOS apps to the Mac might not be where Apple stops,” Jason Snell writes for Macworld. “What if the company uses macOS 10.15 (or, dare I suggest, macOS 13?) to further unify the interfaces of its platforms?”

“For all the discussion about whether iOS apps running on a Mac can possibly live up to the platform’s interface standards, it’s entirely possible that this year, Apple will choose to redefine what it is to be Mac – like in a way that turns iOS and macOS into a continuum of interface decisions that are all, for a lake of a better phrase, ‘Apple-like,'” Snell writes.

“Longtime Mac users might chafe, but iOS users might welcome it,” Snell writes. “As someone who is both, I am not sure where I fall, but it’s worth considering just what Apple might do to make the Mac more closely resemble iOS.”

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