Apple's Services Teams to Start Working Together to Improve Siri, Maps, iCloud, and iTunesApple plans to unify its cloud services teams, including
Siri,
Apple Maps,
iCloud,
Apple Pay,
Apple News, and parts of iTunes and
Apple Music, at its existing Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino, California, according to
Bloomberg.
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Moving the teams into a single campus should streamline growth of Apple services, as the current structure of having teams spread out throughout various office buildings in Cupertino and Sunnyvale contributed to software bugs and slowed product development, the report claims.
The cloud services teams could be on the move again in the near future as Apple completes work on its new
Campus 2 headquarters, where well over 13,000 employees are expected to work. Apple CEO
Tim Cook said the company will begin moving employees to the new campus in 2017.
The report adds that Apple is also planning to shift its services to a single, Apple-made backend system, codenamed Pie. The infrastructure change will reportedly give Apple "more control" and "may speed up load times."
Apple has begun moving over parts of Siri, the iTunes Store, and Apple News to the new platform, one of the people said. Apple plans to move other services, including Maps, to its new system over the next few years. Apple has also developed an internal photo storage system dubbed McQueen to gradually end its reliance on Google and Amazon servers, the people said.
In March, it was reported that Apple is working on an
in-house cloud storage system called "McQueen" to reduce its dependence on services like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, with today's report specifying it will be an internal photo storage system.
Apple experienced its
first-ever iPhone sales decline earlier this year, but its services category
continues to grow. In its most recent quarter, Apple reported nearly $6 billion in revenue tied to services like the
App Store, Apple Music,
AppleCare, Apple Pay, iCloud, and the iTunes Store, up 19% compared to the year-ago period.
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