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To-do list for Apple Inc.: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2026-01-22 Improve Business culture section Sources for business and user culture Scour for typos, dead links, etc. Make neutral Priority 1 (top)

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Apple is an American multi-national corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Company by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, the company was incorporated by Jobs and Wozniak as Apple Computer, the following year. It was renamed Apple in 2007, as the company expanded its focus from computers to consumer electronics. 2600:8803:5E4D:3E00:C500:41F4:4F41:4BE3 (talk) 02:20, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. GSK (talk • edits) 03:03, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply] It is written as "multinational corporation", not "multi-national corporation", in its article. Maxeto0910 (talk) 05:18, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I suggest to add to the Tax section some new news: 1. Apple told to pay Ireland €13bn in tax by EU https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwkwxr4eqo 2. Apple, Capitalizing on New Tax Law, Plans to Bring Billions in Cash Back to U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/technology/apple-tax-bill-repatriate-cash.html Roeylee (talk) 17:47, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. If you want this to be added, please provide a verbatim copy of the text you want to be included. Day Creature (talk) 21:27, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The "Supply Chain" and "Worker Organizations" sections both link to main articles where the key focus are controversies, but not a word is mentioned about these on this Main Article. Feels disingenuous and reads like obvious glaze written by Apple's PR. I mean, we got 2009 Foxconn suicides and video of employees beating workers, plus horrible working conditions... but on this main Apple Inc. page we just skip from "products were made in the US but got outsourced" to "The company saw 40% profit margins, 2-4X what competitors saw". Like, yeah, because horrible working conditions and pay. Google's page has a

Holy wow, we're even using references 409 & 410 - articles about *strikes* to just mention that, y'know, Apple employees *have* trade unions or works councils in Australia and France.

All we get is "The majority of industrial labor disputes (including union recognition) involving Apple occur indirectly through its suppliers and contractors, notably Foxconn plants in China and, to a lesser extent, in Brazil and India." Okay let's make sure we downplay anything bad about the guy's we're totally not writing this to support, yeah? Ludicrous.

Happy to write the copy myself but with a protected page I figure we gotta talk about it first. AdonisChrist (talk) 23:51, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wow this post was poorly edited. Meant to say Google's page has a Criticism and Controversies page. AdonisChrist (talk) 23:53, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply] See Criticism of Apple Inc.. GSK (talk • edits) 00:11, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was reading this article and learned there are multiple people stepping away or leaving Apple, and the CEO, Tim Cook, is supposedly also going to step down sometime next year. More info in this article.

"Since 2025, there has been speculation that Cook would step away as CEO and retire from the company as early as 2026." (From a previous edit to Tim Cook's article I made)

Where do we go from here? Urbanracer34 (talk) 22:50, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article for the most part (especially compared to other articles about Big Tech) sounds like an employee wrote it as an ad. There needs to be "criticisms of/against Apple" or similar section that also links to Criticism of Apple Inc. Feinbecausewhynot (talk) 21:22, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree Luka Maglc (talk) 07:10, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply] The last paragraph of the lead says

Apple has received criticism regarding its contractors' labor conditions, its relationship with trade unions, its environmental practices, and its corporate ethics, including anti-competitive tactics, materials sourcing, and its acquisitions of smaller businesses. Nevertheless, the company has a large following and enjoys a high level of customer loyalty. Despite struggling to find footing in the artificial intelligence field and several high profile departures in 2025, Apple has consistently been ranked as one of the world's most valuable brands since the late 2000s.

and that links to Criticism of Apple Inc. and to several pages about topics such as the supply chain, relationship with unions, and anti-competitive practices (those are linked to by the main Criticism of Apple Inc. page, as much of the commentary there was moved into those pages). Guy Harris (talk) 10:31, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply] Seperate contents section should also directly link there. Yet; even then, I believe it'll still not be enough as the criticism page is sub-par compared to something like Amazon (company) Feinbecausewhynot (talk) 16:14, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply] There are few global companies as widely subjected to criticism as Amazon (heck, I was hating them back when all they did was disrupt the book trade and drive independent booksellers to bankruptcy and/or suicide); that's not really a good yardstick. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:58, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply] I believe most people will be fine with classifying Apple as one of the said few companies. That aside, I believe that the pages of very big corporations will always essentialy always be ads due to the sheer amount of marketing there’ll be from different sources. Feinbecausewhynot (talk) 16:41, 24 January 2026 (UTC)[reply] Seperate contents section should also directly link there. I.e., sections should have "for more information" or "main article" links to Criticism of Apple Inc.? I believe it'll still not be enough as the criticism page is sub-par compared to something like Amazon (company) Then the correct answer would be to improve Criticism of Apple Inc., right? Guy Harris (talk) 17:22, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply] "Criticism of" is a roundabout way to violate the neutral point of view policy. The article should be written in compliance with WP:IMPARTIAL. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 18:00, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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