Apple cuts jobs in second layoff round in two months, report says

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    "title": "Apple cuts jobs in second layoff round in two months, report says - India Today",
    "excerpt": "The tech industry is going through a difficult period with almost every major company laying off workers . Apple seems to be no different in this scenario. As per a new report, the tech giant has conducted a second round of layoffs in just under two months. As per a report from Bloomberg, Apple laid off a handful of employees in its Fitness+ team last week. This move is said to have affected staff working on the audio side of the service, including features such as Time to Walk and Time to Run, which users can access on an Apple Watch without watching a video. The report said new audio releases are expected to become less frequent, though they are not being discontinued for now. Fitness+ is Apple’s subscription workout service and has been positioned as a rival to offerings such as Peloton, particularly for Apple Watch users looking for guided exercise content. The Fitness+ jobs cuts follow another round of layoffs reported in August across teams working on Siri, Vision Pro and Intelligent Systems Experience, a unit within Apple’s software engineering organisation responsible for some AI features. According to reports, the earlier cuts affected more than 200 workers, including about 100 roles in the Vision Pro organisation and another 100 across Siri and software teams. Apple said at the time that it was realigning some teams “to evolve our business to deliver the best...",
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