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Apple Is Increasing Its Staff In China As Work On Bigger iPhones Continues

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Apple is said to have been on a hiring spree in China and Taiwan in an attempt to speed up the development of a pair of bigger, phablet-style iPhones, according to a recent report.

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"The hiring push reflects Apple's need for more engineers to work with Asian suppliers on developing components for coming iPhones and iPads as it plans for faster and more frequent product launches. (…)

Apple has added several hundred new engineers and operations staff in China over the past two years, with a blitz of hiring that began in mid-2013, people familiar with the matter said. The total number of engineers and operations staff in China now exceeds 600, they said."

 


Apple is also looking to increase “its number of supply-chain managers in the wake of criticism over factory conditions at some of its suppliers,” the publication adds.

Despite its recent efforts to bring a degree of product and component production to the United States (





***As a reminder, we've heard from a number of different sources that at least one bigger iPhone is set to launch in 2014.

This so-called “iPhone 6”

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