There's Something Rotten in the state of Apple

There's Something Rotten in the state of Apple

Apple CEO Tim Cook has waxed about how "Apple and China ... grew together and so this has been a symbiotic kind of relationship Photo: Reuters.

Apple executives have been explaining the company’s first year-on-year revenue drop since 2003 as down to macroeconomic headwinds and a less impressive upgrade cycle than in 2015. Those excuses miss the point. The colossus doesn’t exactly have feet of clay yet, but Apple’s business model is challenged.

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