{"id":584,"date":"2014-12-09T07:56:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2014-12-09T07:56:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:56:21","slug":"apple-to-build-new-research-and-development-center-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Apple to Build New Research and Development Center in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/applebend2-630x420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-585\" src=\"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/applebend2-630x420.jpg\" alt=\"applebend2-630x420\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple confirmed Tuesday its intentions to open a brand new research and development center in Japan, following comments made by the country\u2019s prime minister\u00a0Abe Shinzo recently. \u201dWe\u2019re excited to expand our operations in Japan with a new technical development center in Yokohama which will create dozens of new jobs,\u201d Apple said in a statement to\u00a0<em>The Wall Street Journal.\u00a0<\/em>According to a separate report from\u00a0<em>Reuters<\/em>, it will be one of the largest R&amp;D facilities of its kind in the area, though just how many employees Apple will staff at the location remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nearly two years ago, in January of 2013, Apple revealed that it spent $1 billion on research and development during the December quarter, and that sort of spending isn\u2019t uncommon. As we see from plenty of the patents we publish on the site, Apple is constantly spending money to research new technologies and ideas that may one day be sold to the public. Some of that spending goes into advancements into current products, like Touch ID, and into future developments, like the Apple Watch that will launch in early next year.<\/p>\n<p>R&amp;D is crucial to the survival of any company, particularly as technology advances quicker and quicker, and as competitors work to develop and sell new ideas and products to the public. What sort of fruits will this new facility bear? We likely won\u2019t know for many years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2014\/12\/09\/apple-to-open-new-research-site-in-japan\/?mod=rss_Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE WALL STREET JOURNAL<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple confirmed Tuesday its intentions to open a brand new research and development center in Japan, following comments made by the country\u2019s prime minister\u00a0Abe Shinzo recently. \u201dWe\u2019re excited to expand our operations in Japan with a new technical development center in Yokohama which will create dozens of new jobs,\u201d Apple said in a statement to\u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-apple","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}