Apple has asked the Trump administration for permission to buy memory chips from a Chinese state-affiliated manufacturer for its Mac computers. On 24 July the Wall Street Journal reported that Micron chief executive Sanjay Mehrotra met Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to urge the White House to refuse. Both companies are now lobbying the same government on opposite sides of the same question, and the decision belongs to Donald Trump. Apple raised Mac and iPad prices last month while it waited.What Apple asked Washington forAbout The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
As a technology journalist with over sixteen years of experience, I have travelled the world and the seven seas, covered every major tech conference worth its lanyard, chronicled the defining breakthroughs of the last decade and a half, and played a pivotal role in launching some of India’s most important technology publishing platforms across web, print and TV.
