Apple To Help Reduce Air Pollution By Upgrading Factories In China

During a wide-ranging interview with The Wall Street Journal interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook said users will be able to pre-order the new Apple TV starting Monday, with the devices set to start shipping later next week.

In addition, one of the company’s main suppliers, Foxconn, announced plans to build 400MW of solar capacity by 2018, which will take it towards its goal of generating as much clean energy as its Zhengzhou factory uses in the final production of the iPhone.

Apple says it is also launching a new initiative to drive its manufacturing partners to become more energy efficient and use clean energy for their manufacturing operations.

“We are excited to embark on this initiative with Apple”, said Terry Gou, founder and CEO of Foxconn. It will also partner with them to install clean energy generators in the coming years, Cook said.

With this new clean energy program, Apple will finance solar panels that can generate about 200 megawatts of power in areas where most of its suppliers are located; particularly in the northern, southern and eastern regions of China.

Around 87% of Apple’s global operations are now powered by renewable energy, including 100% in the USA, but that level of ambition is now common for the cash-rich tech firms in Silicon Valley.

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Apple provided little detail about how its novel solar-supplier arrangements will work.

The tech giant said on Thursday it plans to build more than 200MW of solar projects in China, aiming to produce enough energy to power the equivalent of 265,000 Chinese homes.

Apple is taking multipronged approach to achieve its ambitious greenhouse emissions target in China. But a few experts offered examples of why it might make sense for Apple to do this.

And there’s another factor, as well. He added that the most forward-thinking ones are thinking of getting the first-mover advantage.

Despite the impressive subscriber numbers, opinion seems to be divided over the of Apple Music user experience which usually culminates in a Apple vs Tidal vs Spotify vs “bro just torrent it” debate amongst friends (which inevitably leads to a…”remember Limewire” trip down memory lane).

Byford notes the figures make Apple Music a smaller, but significant, competitor to Spotify, which we learned in June has 20 million paying customers, a group that accounts for just over a quarter of its overall user base.