Bytes: Week in Review - Apple's leadership departures raises concerns over its AI future
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
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There’s been something of a critical mass of high-profile departures and retirement announcements at Apple in recent weeks. Plus, how will consumers be helped or hurt by a potential merger between Netflix and Warner Bros or a hostile takeover from Paramount? And McDonald's pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad because some folks on social media weren't “lovin' it.”
Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal for this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”
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| 1:01.0 | There's been a big shake-up in the Apple Executive Tree. |
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| 1:08.5 | I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. |
| 1:19.0 | Thank you. This is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Korino. We've seen something of a critical mass of high-profile departures and retirement announcements at Apple in recent weeks. |
| 1:26.6 | We'll be digging into where that leaves the iPhone |
| 1:29.1 | maker for today's Marketplace TechBites week in review. Plus, how will consumers be helped or |
| 1:35.4 | hurt by a potential merger between Netflix and Warner Brothers or a hostile takeover from Paramount? |
| 1:41.7 | And McDonald's pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad because some |
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