Apple has laid off about 100 employees who worked on products like the Apple Books app and Apple News. Bloomberg reported Tuesday night.
Apple notified affected employees on Tuesday. The company has not yet made this move public. The layoffs affected roles in the digital services group, including some engineering positions, but the team working on the Apple Books app and the Apple Bookstore faced the biggest cuts.
Apple has given some employees affected by the layoffs 60 days to find another position domestically before being let go, according to a Bloomberg report.
According to Apple's latest earnings reportreleased earlier this month, the services division delivered over $24 billion in net sales in the third quarter of 2024 ending June 29. It was Apple's second best-performing quarter in net sales, second only to the iPhone, which brought in over $39 billion.
The earnings report showed that services brought in more sales than the Mac (over $7 billion), iPad (over $7.1 billion) and wearables, home and accessories (over $8 billion) divisions combined.
Apple Store. (Photo by: Bob Henry/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Breaks from Apple are relatively rare. Apple CEO Tim Cook said in February 2023 that he saw layoffs as “sort of a last resort thing.”
“You can never say never,” Cook said at the time. “We want to manage costs in other ways to the extent we can.”
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Apple fired at least 600 employees in April after its cancellation The 10-year electric car project and putting an end to her attempt at it make smart watch screens at home in February and March. Some of the 2,000 people working on the self-driving electric car project were moved to Apple's AI division.
Apple was done 161,000 full-time employees since 2023.