iPhone 6, Applewatch, Singapore not involved??

[B Man]

Nope.

Apple develops some of its hardware/software outside the USA.

when it does, the:
1. VPs/CEO are not the ones going there. They stay put.
2. The engineering team flies into USA monthly

Singapore unfortunately was never in the development for any of the cutting edge stuff. More like as a backend manufacturing site with tax breaks. They did not even transfer any of the high tech stuff over to Singapore to be manufactured. Just the low end stuff that they could not care less if it was copied as it will have no commercial value outside of apple's doors.

The main software development work has to be done in Cupertino. If they did that outside the US, it would require the VPs & CEO to travel outside the US, slowing the development work.

The Spore R&D was working more on monitors & I think the speech recognition thing. Apple was manufacturing monitor in Spore & it made sense to have the team located in Spore.

 

[eatshitndie]

Singapore unfortunately was never in the development for any of the cutting edge stuff. More like as a backend manufacturing site with tax breaks.

such as power adapters for older model macs. the design and manufacture were so poor that apple moved production of simple power adapters to japan.

 

[enterprise2]

The MIW should can all their crap about Singapore work on protecting intellectual property when nobody willing to do R&D work here, or rather do the 'back end' stuff and relabel the works as 'R&D' to get tax breaks from us!

 

[eatshitndie]

apple has patience and perfection as its strategy. samsung is just a copycat and quick to jump the proverbial gun.

http://m.imore.com/samsung-tells-ev...n-dump-their-galaxy-notes-and-switch-over-now

 

[eatshitndie]

apple sold a record 4m iphone 6 & 6 pluses in the 1st 24 hours. wow!

 

[johnny333]

apple sold a record 4m iphone 6 & 6 pluses in the 1st 24 hours. wow!

Before the iPhone 6 was released this high demand was predicted. This will be a good quarter for AAPL. Expect the share prices to go up.