With amosite in the Cloud Business. A new target seems to be retail customers. First, to our top story. Last year, apple ceo tim cook stunned investors when the company readjusted its forecast due to struggles in china. Official Government Data shows the apple smartphone shipments in china grew almost 19 . That marked a big jump from previous months. It is particularly remarkable when shipments of phones of all brands were down nearly 14 in the same period in china. Surprised about the amount of bullishness we seem to have on china . That number is a surprise. The broad push in china to focus on huawei and have consumers by huawei funds instead of iphones. That was the concern for a lot of last year. Some of the trade tension has come down. Athink more to the point is device like the iphone 11 is a little bit cheaper. The battery life is very long. The photos you can take are a lot better than the previous version. When you put all those things together and combine it with a large back
But a new target seems to be its retail customers. First, to our top story. That is last year, tim cook stunned investors when my company readjusted its forecast due to struggles in china. What a difference a year makes. Official Government Data shows the apple smartphone shipments in china grew 19 yearoveryear in december. That marked a big jump from previous months. It is particularly remarkable when shipments of phones of all brands were down 14 in the same period in china. For more, i want to bring in our reporter. Are you surprised by the amount of bullishness we have on apple and the iphone shipments in china . Certainly in china, that number is a surprise. Engine broad bush push in china to have consumers by phones instead of iphones. Has of the trade tension come down in recent months. Maybe that has something to do with it. I think more to the point, a device like the iphone 11 is a little cheaper, the battery life is very long. The photos you can take are better than the prev
The very latest. A lot of action there as anticipated. And a Health Care Proposal from republican senator ted cruz is gaining apparently some traction on capitol hill well have details on his amendment, proposed amendment and reaction from the ceo of mt. Sinai hospital lets get to our jon fortt, shall we, beginning with some big job cuts over at microsoft jon is in san francisco. Jon . Reporter yeah, kelly, microsoft set to cut thousands of jobs as it focuses its efforts on the cloud, reorganizes its sales operation around that. Its going to be less than 10 of its overall sales force of just under 50,000 people, but cant get a lot more specific than that. Also, some corporate functions connected to sales now, most of these jobs are going to be overseas more than 75 of them. This reorganization, think of it in terms of a different way to approach selling cloud to the enterprise, to finance, to health care. Lots of different specific Industries Microsoft trying to have subject Matter Exp