Tim Cook, boss of Apple, is having a rough start to 2024. In the past month his company has faced an unusual barrage of unpleasantness. A patent dispute forced it to remove features from two of its smartwatches. It found out that America’s Department of Justice (DoJ) would be suing it shortly over antitrust transgressions. It reported that it was losing market share in smartphones in China, its second-biggest market. Adding insult to injury, a few Wall Street analysts said something that would have been unthinkable until recently—that Apple’s shares were overvalued. On January 11th Microsoft, a rival tech titan, duly dethroned the iPhone-maker, temporarily,
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