Apple’s Web of Tax Shelters Saved It Billions, Panel Finds (Published 2013)
The Times’s Charles Duhigg on the financial practices of Apple and a corporate culture that pushed for great innovation, in both products and tax strategies. WASHINGTON — Even as Apple became the nation’s most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything
Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes
It seemed like a simple enough idea for an iPhone app: send users a pop-up notice whenever a flying robots kills someone in one of America's many undeclared wars. But Apple keeps blocking the Drones+ program from its App Store -- and therefore, from iPhones everywhere. The Cupertino company says the content is "objectionable and crude," according to Apple's latest rejection letter. A mockup of dev
In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad (Published 2012)
An explosion last May at a Foxconn factory in Chengdu, China, killed four people and injured 18. It built iPads.Credit...Color China Photo, via Associated Press The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws. When workers in the cafeteria ran outside, they saw black smoke pouring from sh
How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work (Published 2012)
People flooded Foxconn Technology with résumés at a 2010 job fair in Henan Province, China.Credit...Donald Chan/Reuters When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to mak
The Real Genius of Steve Jobs
Jobs’s sensibility was more editorial than inventive. “I’ll know it when I see it,” he said.Illustration by André Carrilho Not long after Steve Jobs got married, in 1991, he moved with his wife to a nineteen-thirties, Cotswolds-style house in old Palo Alto. Jobs always found it difficult to furnish the places where he lived. His previous house had only a mattress, a table, and chairs. He needed th
Opinion | A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs (Published 2011)
I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I’d met my father, I tried to believe he’d changed his number and left no forwarding address because he was
Opinion | Against Nostalgia (Published 2011)
Editor’s Note: Questions have been raised about the truth of a paragraph in the original version of this article that purported to talk about conditions at Apple’s factory in China. That paragraph has been removed from this version of the article. STEVE JOBS was an enemy of nostalgia. He believed that the future required sacrifice and boldness. He bet on new technologies to fill gaps even when the
僕らが「ジョブズの魂」から学ぶもの：日経ビジネスオンライン
30年ぐらい前、ジョン・レノンの死が伝えられた日も、静かなひんやりとした朝だった。ニューヨークのダコタ・ハウスの玄関で暴漢に射殺されたニュースは世界中に、大きな衝撃波として伝わった。若い時から、音楽シーンの変革の最先端を進み、世界中の多くの人間のライフスタイルや人生観までにも影響を与えたミュージシャンは、40歳の若さで、僕らの現実世界から消えた。 スティーブン・ポール・ジョブズの死の情報は、レノンの時と同質な感覚を覚えた。悲しみよりも先に、彼がやってきたことを想い、時間軸でトレースし、自分自身の時間軸と重ね合わせたりした。身内がなくなるのとは別の、同時代を生きたものとしての感謝の気持ちの方が強いのかも知れない。 ジョブズは、ジョン・レノンとボブ・ディランが好きだった。レノンもディランも、どこにでもいる不良少年や落ちこぼれから始まり、自らの心のおもむくままに表現活動を行い、影響力を増し、やが
ソフトバンク：孫正義社長「ジョブズは私のヒーローで大師匠で雲の上の神様」 交流語る - 毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)
ソフトバンクの孫正義社長は７日、アップルのスマートフォンの新製品「ｉＰｈｏｎｅ（アイフォーン） ４Ｓ」の料金体系の発表会見で、６日に死去が公表されたアップルの前ＣＥＯスティーブ・ジョブズ氏との交流を語った。会見や質疑で語った主な内容は以下の通り。【岡礼子】 ◇スティーブの生み出したものは芸術作品 （ジョブズ氏が）アップルを一度追われて、どん底のころに、僕の自宅でいろいろと話をしました。彼の言ったことは「これから変えていきたいんだ。一緒に力をあわせてやろうじゃないか」と、そんな話をしました。 今回、発売の予約キャンペーンを受けて、今日（７日）の（午後）４時から（受け付け）なんですけど、「数日間でも遅らせたほうがいいんじゃないか」とか、いろんなことを考えました。アップルとも相談しましたが、スティーブは、自分の作品が一日でも早く、一人でも多くの人に行き渡ることを一番望んでいるんじゃないかというア
With Time Running Short, Jobs Managed His Farewells (Published 2011)
MULTIPLYING EULOGIES Mr. Jobs valued his privacy. “But once you're gone, you belong to the world,” said one acquaintance.Credit...Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg News Over the last few months, a steady stream of visitors to Palo Alto, Calif., called an old friend’s home number and asked if he was well enough to entertain visitors, perhaps for the last time. In February, Steven P. Jobs had learned that,
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Steve Jobs’s Widow Steps Onto Philanthropic Stage (Published 2013)
Apple and Foxconn: stuck together
「無人機による殺害」を知らせるアプリ、アップルは拒否
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