AdvertisementThe Wall Street Journal today released a profile of Apple’s Vice President of Procurement, Tony Blevins, which provides an insight into Apple’s corporate culture and Blevins’ work for the company. As Vice President of Procurement at Apple, Blevins’ job is to get suppliers to cut prices, and he appears to be temporarily stopping to do a cheap deal for Apple, which earned him the nickname “the Blevinator”. For example, Blevins was the main driver that encouraged Apple suppliers to refuse Qualcomm to pay royalties in the ongoing dispute with the chipmaker. Mr. Blevins called a top manager of Japan Display and accused him of violating Apple’s non-disclosure agreement. “Are you stupid?” According to a person familiar with the request, Apple requested that Japan Display pay $ 5 million for violating the non-disclosure agreement.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 26, 2020 05:01 UTC