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An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect New Apple and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 July 8#New Apple until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. TraderCharlotte (talk) 03:07, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

They own companies in various industries, so I guess so... What do you think? Should Apple be described as a conglomerate in the article? RaphaelQS (talk) 23:08, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@RaphaelQS I haven't found many sourcing describing them that way, and while a trillion dollar company is bound to own/acquire many other businesses/companies, almost all of them relate to the same/core industry of computing/hardware devices whether it's Beats Electronics, Apple IMC which doesn't describe a conglomerate typically. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 13:59, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

They own companies in many industries (autonomous cars, sleep tracking devices, fabless semiconductors...), they are all in the global tech field but compete in different industries/markets, so I think if you follow the strict definition, Apple is a tech conglomerate (like Alphabet and Meta are both described in their respective articles). --RaphaelQS (talk) 16:40, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The OECD describes a conglomerate as a firm or business enterprise having different economic activities in different unrelated industries (note: industries, not markets, which wouldn't make sense as a definition). It's a term that fits Samsung, a company that designs and makes phones, washing machine, and tanks. But it's easy to understand why sources don't describe Apple as a conglomerate: they just don't match that definition. Their products and acquisitions are all in the tech industry. Sleep tracking was for the Apple Watch. Fabless was meant to help vertically integrate the Mac's supply chain, and reduce dependency on other companies. Celf-driving car AI is quintessentially technology. Once they release a car, maybe their descriptor will change, but there's zero justification for that now. DFlhb (talk) 23:41, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It was beaten by the Xerox Star by a few months. 2A02:C7F:5A1F:DB00:4576:297E:C62:3F8C (talk) 14:39, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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In the paragraph "Software",

=== Software ===
{{Main|List of software by Apple Inc.}}
Apple offers a range of software for its hardware products some of which are bundled with its products while others are available for purchase. These include [[MacOS]], [[iOS]], [[Apple Books|iBooks]], [[Pages (word processor)|Pages]], [[Numbers]], [[Keynote]], [[iMovie]], [[GarageBand]], [[Final Cut Pro]], [[Logic Pro]], [[Xcode]], [[Safari]], [[Time Machine (macOS)|Time Machine]] and many more.

please change the link [[Safari]], which points to the animal-spotting kind of safari, to [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]].

(Note: There's currently one other link to Safari in the article, and that one is correct.) Codeflo (talk) 21:02, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Thanks for catching that. - Aoidh (talk) 21:11, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]