Apple's Jeff Williams 'bullish' about post-coronavirus economic recovery in US
Apple's Jeff Williams says that supply chains are running well and that the company is optimistic about the future for the economy both for itself and for America as a whole.
Apple's Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Williams
Apple's Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams says that he's optimistic about how the company and the larger US economy can recover from the damage caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
"I am optimistic," he told Fox Business in an interview. "As you look around, you see the resilience of the people working through this challenging time. And when I take a look inside of Apple, I couldn't be more encouraged."
"You know," he continued, "during [the] last quarter, we -- even though these are challenging times -- we launched three new products. And I feel great about the economy in the long haul. And it's just a matter of getting from here to there."
Pressed about whether that means Apple and the US recovering quickly, he stressed that he is speaking as a COO, not as an economist. "It's hard to make a prediction on exactly when and how it will roll out," he said. "But I feel great about the long haul."
"You know, our supply chains are running largely at capacity and people are continuing to work," he continued. "I couldn't be prouder of the Apple team and how resourceful they've been. You'll see us opening retail stores in the coming weeks and like I said, we're bullish in the long haul."
Regarding the continued speculation that the "iPhone 12" will be delayed by a month, Williams would neither confirm nor deny, but he did answer about how Apple sees these reports.
"We just put our head down and don't pay a lot of attention to the latest sort of speculation about our products," he said. "We put our head down and get our work done. I couldn't be prouder of the team finding new ways to get their job done. We're not typically a work-at-home kind of culture at Apple, it's not part of our playbook. And people have been really resourceful and we're moving the ball forward. We are getting stuff done."
Williams did also speak to what he sees as a misunderstanding about Apple's reliance on particular companies or countries.
"Our products are global products and so... they aren't built in one location," he said. "There's a real misconception about that. And our products are built around the world, with a ton of that right here in the United States."
"I see we'll have a global supply chain for quite some time and that's going to allow us to make the very best products for our customers," he continued.
Apple's Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Williams
Apple's Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams says that he's optimistic about how the company and the larger US economy can recover from the damage caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
"I am optimistic," he told Fox Business in an interview. "As you look around, you see the resilience of the people working through this challenging time. And when I take a look inside of Apple, I couldn't be more encouraged."
"You know," he continued, "during [the] last quarter, we -- even though these are challenging times -- we launched three new products. And I feel great about the economy in the long haul. And it's just a matter of getting from here to there."
Pressed about whether that means Apple and the US recovering quickly, he stressed that he is speaking as a COO, not as an economist. "It's hard to make a prediction on exactly when and how it will roll out," he said. "But I feel great about the long haul."
"You know, our supply chains are running largely at capacity and people are continuing to work," he continued. "I couldn't be prouder of the Apple team and how resourceful they've been. You'll see us opening retail stores in the coming weeks and like I said, we're bullish in the long haul."
Regarding the continued speculation that the "iPhone 12" will be delayed by a month, Williams would neither confirm nor deny, but he did answer about how Apple sees these reports.
"We just put our head down and don't pay a lot of attention to the latest sort of speculation about our products," he said. "We put our head down and get our work done. I couldn't be prouder of the team finding new ways to get their job done. We're not typically a work-at-home kind of culture at Apple, it's not part of our playbook. And people have been really resourceful and we're moving the ball forward. We are getting stuff done."
Williams did also speak to what he sees as a misunderstanding about Apple's reliance on particular companies or countries.
"Our products are global products and so... they aren't built in one location," he said. "There's a real misconception about that. And our products are built around the world, with a ton of that right here in the United States."
"I see we'll have a global supply chain for quite some time and that's going to allow us to make the very best products for our customers," he continued.
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Finally, I’m bracing myself to endure the politicians congratulating each other on how they saved the world from the apocalypse. “I saved you. You must vote for me if you value your life!” I already received my stimulus check letter from Trump saying just that. More to come from Cuomo, Pritzker (Illinois), etc. The news media will switch from 24/7/365 coverage of the virus to 24/7/365 coverage of the blame game that is sure to follow.
I use Apple everything but I'll tell you that I'm getting pissed off fast that every time I use Final Cut on my 16" MBP (tricked out) that when I walk away and the thing goes to sleep and I wake it up I see an Apple logo because it has restarted. Both Catalina AND Final Cut (since I have issues with FCP on my 2015 running Mojave) are BUGGY and do all the things that led me to switch from Windows to Mac 15 years ago. Apple has become LAZY on all things not called iOS and it's getting frustrating. A $3500 brand new laptop should not be doing this kind of crap. Nevermind the fact that it runs HOT.
No, lockdown / social distancing was never meant to be sustainable. It was a means to bide time and keep the surge from overwhelming the healthcare system and, for the most part, it did exactly that.
The benefit of Social Distancing was to reduce the "R0" number (the number of people one infected person can infect from 2 or 3 down to less than one). Without social distancing or personal protection, the only other way to do that is mass testing and effective contact tracing to remove the infectious from our streets, businesses and stores -- before they can infect a bunch of others. But that, apparently, is not part of the plan.
Is it because it did not comport with their idyllic picture of a perfect America making itself great again?
Was it more convenient to simply double the predicted death count?
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What's sickening to me in our current situation is having leaders who are more interested in assigning blame, like "who the hell blasted that hole in my ship's hull?" instead of making sure that the damage control team has everything possible at their disposal to plug the damn hole. Hey, maybe we'll talk about what caused the hole - how about after we save the ship and we don't all die?
Then there's the partisanship. Will the hole in the ship only cause republican or democratic sailors to die if the ship sinks? The unaffected sailors can maybe take a break out on steel beach and work on their tans. Or maybe not.
What about leadership? Does the captain of the ship, in the midst of the crisis, get on the ship's intercom and start talking about what a fabulous battle plan he/she put in place and how he/she expertly maneuvered the ship before it had a bigass hole blown in its side? Maybe the captain speculates that placing a big sheet of plastic wrap over the hole may help, what's to lose, or starts reminding sailors of an upcoming port call where the beer is going to be so refreshingly cold. I hope not, maybe the captain should be thinking about the bigass hole in the ship and getting the ship making headway so as not to acquire an additional hole?
There's always time to play politics, assign blame, award medals and commendations after the battle is over. Personally, I'd prefer that any awards that I receive not be posthumously awarded. So maybe we'd better just focus on plugging the damn hole and keeping the ship moving.
Yeah, I realize that this scenario only applies if we are all on the same ship, which we all know is not the case. But the analogies are valid.
LOL... Typical right winger!
Anything honest, true and accurate is condemned as "leftist" -- and then you tack on some right wing propaganda.
Funny though how Trump wanted total, unchallenged control -- until faced with a pandemic he had no idea how to deal with. Then suddenly everything shifted to the states.