AWT News Update: May 25, 2016

REMINDER: AWT News Update will be on hiatus between 5/26 and 6/6/16, returning on June 7.

A few stories for today:

• Apple’s hopes in India are dashed by some government bureaucrats who decided that the company would not be given an exemption to a local-sourcing rule
• Foxconn managed to reduce workforce by 60,000 people at one plant in Kunshan, China. How? It gave their jobs to robots
• A fantastic piece by Brian Roemmele over on Medium points out that a new and improved Siri may be just about ready to debut

The text version of this podcast is located below.

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