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Eddy Cue is Apple's senior VP of Services, overseeing App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, iCloud, and major partnerships like the Google Search deal.
Epic Games says Apple has scarcely produced documents nearly two months past the deadline behind its proposed 5% to 15% link commission. Apple disputes it, and the fee stays undecided while two courts each hold part of the case.
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Apple named Steve Smith to run mergers and acquisitions and put the deal team back under finance chief Kevan Parekh, replacing Adrian Perica. Parekh ended Apple's net-cash-neutral policy in May, a change analysts read as room to buy.
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Apple CEO John Ternus is weighing year-round launches as the hardware unit removes roughly six directors and other program managers, Bloomberg reported. Staff expect the calendar change to take years, so the cost cuts should show up in Apple's numbers first.
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Apple CEO John Ternus has cut hardware program managers, including about six directors, to ship more products more often, Bloomberg reports. The engineers who remain are the likeliest people to absorb the timeline and coordination work those roles did.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Ternus and Cue want more from a store he estimates at $30bn a year, at a moment when Appfigures has US commission revenue falling and the Supreme Court has yet to rule.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman ties a small Fitness+ layoff to a gradual merger of Fitness+ into the Health app. The revamped Health app in the iOS 27.2 beta is the one piece of that plan anyone outside Apple can open.
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Every paid tier down to 50GB now carries both services for up to five family members. Apple is cancelling standalone Apple TV and Arcade subscriptions in those countries, and closing Apple One to new customers.
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Siri AI shipped on 14 September as an opt-in beta in English on a short list of recent hardware. It does not run on iPhone, iPad or Watch in the EU, or anywhere in China, and Apple has set daily limits it has not published.
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Bloomberg reportedly has Apple weighing a home-monitoring subscription and higher App Store margins. For anyone shipping on iOS, one is a competitor with integration nobody else can buy and the other is a rent increase.
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The practical result of Monday's reshuffle is that store rules, developer pricing and antitrust concessions report up through the executive whose division books the store's revenue. Developers are negotiating with a different desk now.
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Phil Schiller's exit moves app approvals and revenue-share policy out of marketing, where they sat since 2015, and into the services organisation that books the money, with Carson Oliver running the store day to day.
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The send-off drew about 200 people and no reported outside industry figures. From 1 September the new chief executive runs the product org while the outgoing one keeps the regulators.
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